Today in History:Friday, June7, 2013

历史上的今天：2013年6月7日，星期五

June 7th, 1998In Jasper, Texas, three white men chain a black man James Byrd, Junior to a pickup truck, then drag him to his death. Two of the men who dragged Byrd are later sentenced to death for the crime. The third receives life in prison.

1948,The Communists complete their takeover of Czechoslovakia, as the country's president Edvard Benes resigns. Communist rule lasts until the collapse of the Iron Curtain across Eastern Europe more than four decades later.

1981,Israeli military planes destroy a nuclear power plant in Iraq, then under Saddam Hussein's rule. Israel charges the facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons.

1972,In New York, the musical “Grease”, a teenage love story during high school in 1950s America, opens on Broadway.

And 1958,Prince, the rock singer, songwriter and musician whose hits include Purple Rain, Kiss, and 1999, is born in Minneapolis.

Today in History, June 7th, Tim Maguire, the Associated Press.