Today's Highlight in History:
On July 13th, 1960, John F. Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination at his party's convention in Los Angeles.

On this date:
In 1787, Congress enacted an ordinance governing the Northwest Territory.

In 1793, French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday.

In 1863, deadly rioting against the Civil War military draft erupted in New York City.

In 1878, the Treaty of Berlin amended the terms of the Treaty of San Stefano, which had ended the Russo-Turkish War of 187
7-78.

In 1967, race-related rioting that claimed 27 lives broke out in Newark, New Jersey.

In 1974, the Senate Watergate Committee proposed sweeping reforms in an effort to prevent another Watergate scandal.

In 1977, a blackout lasting 25 hours hit the New York City area.

In 1978, Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Company by chairman Henry Ford the Second.

In 1979, a 45-hour siege by Palestinian guerrillas began at the Egyptian Embassy in Ankara, Turkey.

In 1985, 'Live Aid,' an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, took place to raise money for Africa's starving people.

Ten years ago: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev closed the Communist Party's 28th congress by saying he would welcome Western aid without political strings.

Five years ago: President Clinton denounced a base-closing list for the damage it would do to California and Texas, but then approved the package while promising to save jobs in those states. Just six days after the space shuttle 'Atlantis' returned, the shuttle 'Discovery' blasted off on a nine-day mission. About 2500 workers at Detroit's daily newspapers went on strike.

One year ago: Angel Maturino Resendiz, suspected of being the 'Railroad Killer,' surrendered in El Paso, Texas. In Tehran, police fired tear gas to disperse ten-thousand demonstrators on the sixth day of protests against Iranian hard-liners. The American League won the All-Star game for the third straight time, defeating the National League 4-to-1 at Boston's Fenway Park.

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1989: Paris in 200-year-old revolutionary fervour
England have

About 500 people have been involved in scuffles in the Place de la Bastille in Paris.

Hundreds of thousands of revellers took to the streets of the French capital last night to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille.

Most people enjoyed the carnival atmosphere in the city but a group of trouble-makers fought amongst themselves, harassed foreign TV crews and threw stones at the police as they tried to restore order.

Last night was the official opening of the concert hall, Opera Bastille, which has been built on the site of the Bastille prison - where the French Revolution began in 1789.

Celebrations carried on into the small hours of this morning in the biggest street party since France was liberated after World War II.

There was traffic chaos as people danced in the streets, wearing the red, white and blue of the revolutionary tricolour and letting off fireworks.

As well as the traditional military march down the Champs Elysees this morning, the bicentennial anniversary has been marked by a spectacular parade of dancers, musicians and floats from around the world this evening.

Heads of state from 40 countries and a global television audience of 500m watched the procession - devised and organised by Jean-Paul Goude - down the Champs Elysees to the Place de la Concorde.

Costing ?m, the Marseillaise procession was based on the theme of the rights of Man and world music. It culminated in a powerful rendition of the French national anthem - also called the Marseillaise - by opera singer Jesse Norman.

Some world leaders were in the city for the G7 World Economic Summit opened by President Mitterand at the Louvre pyramid in the afternoon.





King Faisal II of Iraq is believed to have been killed during the coup
1958: Coup in Iraq sparks jitters in Middle East

Artificially 1969:
The A group of Iraqi army officers have staged a coup in Iraq and overthrown the monarchy.

Baghdad Radio announced the Army has liberated the Iraqi people from domination by a corrupt group put in power by "imperialism".
From now on Iraq would be a republic that would "maintain ties with other Arab countries". It said some 12,000 Iraqi troops based in neighbouring Jordan have been ordered to return.

Major-General Abdul Karim el Qasim is Iraq s new prime minister, defence minister and commander-in-chief.

Baghdad Radio also announced that Crown Prince Abdul Illah and Nuri es Said, prime minister of the Iraq-Jordan Federation, had been assassinated.

King Faisal reported killed

It said the body of the Crown Prince, the powerful uncle of 23-year-old King Faisal, was hanging outside the Defence Ministry for all to see.

Reports from the US Embassy in Baghdad say the British embassy has been ransacked and set on fire. The ambassador, Sir Michael Wright, and his wife were held at the embassy until late this afternoon when they were released. They are now in a Baghdad hotel.

Unconfirmed reports suggest King Faisal himself has also been killed.

His cousin, King Hussein of Jordan, has declared himself head of the Arab Federation - the five-month alliance between Iraq and Jordan - in the "absence" of King Faisal.

In a broadcast to his subjects, King Hussein condemned the coup as the work of outsiders.

While Iraqis are celebrating on the streets of the capital, Baghdad, the news is a cause for concern for western powers worried about their oil interests and instability in the region.

Mixed reaction in Arab world

The insurrection was probably inspired by a similar uprising staged in Egypt by Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser six years ago. In February this year he formed a political union between Egypt and Syria known as the United Arab Republic (UAR).

Radio stations in the UAR are naturally delighted by news of the Iraq coup.

But leaders of Jordan and Lebanon fear it might inspire Arab nationalist rebellions in their own states and have appealed to Britain and the United States to send troops to their countries.

The US President Dwight D Eisenhower is said to be "extremely disturbed" by the Iraqi revolt and has called of an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council.

Officials in Washington fear the Iraqi coup will mean the end of the Baghdad Pact whose members include Turkey, Persia and Pakistan. It was intended to stem the influence of the Soviet Union in the region.

There are fears the Iraq coup will have a domino effect and that the pro-Western oil regimes of Kuwait, Bahrain and the Trucial States may fall to Arab nationalists.

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1989: Paris in 200-year-old revolutionary fervour
England have

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历史上的今天:07月15日

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 15th, 1975, three American astronauts blasted off aboard an 'Apollo' spaceship hours after two Soviet cosmonauts were launched aboard a 'Soyuz' spacecraft for a mission that included a linkup of the two ships in orbit.

On this date:
In 1606, Dutch painter Rembrandt was born in Leiden, Netherlands.

In 1870, Georgia became the last Confederate state readmitted to the Union.

In 1916, Boeing Company, originally known as Pacific Aero Products, was founded in Seattle.

In 1948, President Truman was nominated for another term of office by the Democratic national convention
in Philadelphia.

In 1964, Senator Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona was nominated for president by the Republican national convention in San Francisco.

In 1965, US scientists displayed close-up photographs of the planet Mars taken by 'Mariner Four.'

In 1971, President Nixon announced he would visit the People's Republic of China.

In 1985, a gaunt-looking Rock Hudson appeared at a news conference with actress Doris Day (it was later revealed Hudson was suffering from AIDS).

In 1992, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton claimed the Democratic presidential nomination in New York.

In 1997, fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot dead outside his Miami home; suspected gunman Andrew Phillip Cunanan was found dead eight days later.

Ten years ago: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl held talks on the issue of a united Germany's membership in NATO. Tens of thousands of people marched in Moscow to protest the Communist Party's control of the government, the army and the KGB.

Five years ago: A 19-year-old sales clerk was rescued after being buried in the rubble of a collapsed shopping mall in Seoul, South Korea, for 16 days.

One year ago: The government acknowledged for the first time that thousands of workers were made sick while making nuclear weapons and announced a plan to compensate many of them. China declared that it had invented its own neutron bomb. The Seattle Mariners played their first game in their new home, Safeco Field, losing to the San Diego Padres, 3-to-2.

每日格言

'It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.'

-- Margaret Fuller, American journalist and social critic (1810-1850).

Today's Highlight in History:
One year ago, on July 16th, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died when the single-engine plane Kennedy was piloting plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

On this date:

In 1790, the District of Columbia was established as the seat of the United States government.

In 1862, David G. Farragut became the first rear admiral in the United States Navy.

In 1918, Russia's Czar Nicholas the Second, his empress and their five children were executed by the Bolsheviks.

In 1935, the first parking meters were installed, in Oklahoma City.

In 1945, the United States exploded its first experimental atomic bomb, in the desert of Alamogordo, New Mexico.

In 1964, in accepting the Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco, Barry M. Goldwater said 'extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice' and that 'moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.'

In 1969, 'Apollo Eleven' blasted off from Cape Kennedy on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon.

In 1973, during the Senate Watergate hearings, former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield publicly revealed the existence of President Nixon's secret taping system.

In 1979, Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq.

In 1980, former California Governor Ronald Reagan won the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Detroit.

Ten years ago: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced that Moscow had agreed to drop its objection to a united Germany's membership in NATO.

Five years ago: William Barloon and David Daliberti, the two Americans who were imprisoned in Iraq for crossing the border from Kuwait four months earlier, were released.

One year ago: Stanley Kubrick's final film, 'Eyes Wide Shut' starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, made its debut.

每日格言

'The fear of becoming a `has been' keeps some people from becoming anything.'

-- Eric Hoffer, American author-philosopher (1902-1983).

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原帖由 林寒涧肃 于 2007-7-14 13:11 发表
Thanks .. I will strive ..

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原帖由 转身就走 于 2007-7-16 00:20 发表


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WRONG WAY DAY

We抳e all seen football players running the wrong way on the field, and some announcer will refer to the unfortunate player as wrong Way?Corrigan. Well, the original 慦rong Way?was not a football player; he was Douglas Corrigan, unemployed airplane mechanic. It was on this, a foggy day in 1938, that Doug left Floyd Bennett Field in New York, supposedly headed for Los Angeles. He landed his 1929 Curtiss Robin monoplane about 28 hours later - not in California but in Ireland at Dublin抯 Baldonnel Field. Corrigan made the 3,150-mile flight without benefit of a radio or navigational equipment other than a compass. His explanation for the monumental mistake was that he was following the wrong end of the compass needle. (Folks were never sure whether his feat was a mistake or moxie.) He was, however, welcomed home as a hero (ticker tape parade and all) and known forever more as wrong Way?Corrigan.

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Events July 17 1862 - National cemeteries were authorized by the U.S. government on this day. Arlington National Cemetery, located just outside Washington, D.C. in Virginia, is one of the most honored in the country. In addition to those who died in battle, other war veterans, including U.S. Presidents and government leaders, are buried there. Arlington National Cemetery also houses the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in honor of those who lay unidentified on the battlefields of freedom. 1866 - Authorization was given to build a tunnel beneath the Chicago River. The project was completed three years later at a cost of $512,709. 1867 - Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston, MA. It was the first dental school in America. 1901 - Dr. Willis Carrier installed a commerical air conditioning system at a Brooklyn, NY printing plant. The system was the first to provide man-made control over temperature, humidity, ventilation and air quality. It was originally installed to help maintain quality at the printing plant and for the first two decades of the 20th Century, Carrier抯 invention was used primarily to cool machines, not people. The development of the centrifugal chiller by Carrier in the early 1920s led to comfort cooling for movie theaters (remeber the marquees with 揑t抯 cool inside?) and, before long, air conditioning came to department stores, office buildings and railroad cars. Cool... 1920 - Sinclair Lewis finished the now-famous novel, Main Street. 1939 - Charlie Barnet and his orchestra recorded Cherokee for Bluebird Records. Listen carefully and you抣l hear the horn of Billy May on the piece. 1941 - The hitting streak of Joe DiMaggio came to an end after 56 games. The Yankee slugger couldn抰 get a hit. Since May 16th, he batted at an average of .408. He hit 19 homers during the streak. Two pitchers were responsible for putting the skids on DiMaggio抯 hitting streak: Al Smith and Jim Bagby of the Cleveland Indians. After a day off, Joltin?Joe resumed his hitting ways, in a shorter, but still impressive, 14-game streak. 1954 - The first Newport Jazz Festival was held on the grass tennis courts of the Newport Casino in Newport RI. Eddie Condon and his band played Muskrat Ramble as the opening number of the world抯 first jazz fest. 1954 - The Brooklyn Dodgers took to the field, making history as the first team with a majority of black players. 1955 - Disneyland opened the gates to 揟he Happiest Place on Earth?in Anaheim, California. In the famous theme park抯 first year of operation, some four million people visited Main Street USA, Fantasyland, Frontierland and Tomorrowland. On its opening day, Disneyland held a gala TV broadcast featuring Walt Disney, Bob Cummings, Art Linkletter and Ronald Reagan. 1961 - John Chancellor became the on-air host of the Today show on NBC-TV. Chancellor replaced Dave Garroway, who had resigned after 10 years of early morning duty on the popular program. 1961 - Ty Cobb died of cancer at age 74. Cobb was considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time. 1961 - Rocker Bobby Lewis was starting week #2 of a seven-week stay at number one (one, one, one) on the pop-music charts with his smash, Tossin?and Turnin?/i>. Lewis, who grew up in an orphanage, learned to play the piano at age 5. He became popular in the Detroit, MI area before moving on to fame and fortune with Beltone Records. 1968 - The Beatles?/b> feature-length cartoon, Yellow Submarine, premiered at the London Pavilion. The song, Yellow Submarine, had been a #2 hit for the supergroup (9/17/66) and was the inspiration for the movie. 1981 - Two skywalks suspended from the ceiling over the atrium lobby at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, MO collapsed, killing 114 people. Five years later, two design engineers were convicted for their gross negligence. 1984 - Hector Camacho, previously undefeated, lost the WBC junior-lightweight boxing crown because he could no longer make the 130-pound fighting limit. He moved into the 135-pound class for lightweight competition. 1986 - The largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history took place as LTV Corporation asked for court protection from more than 20,000 creditors. LTV Corp. had debts in excess of $4 billion. 1996 - TWA (Trans World Airlines) flight 800, carrying 230 people, including four cockpit crew members and 14 flight attendants, exploded, falling into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island, New York. The Boeing 747 had lifted off from New York抯 John F. Kennedy Airport at 8:19 p.m. bound for Paris, France. The explosion happened about 26 minutes later, some 40 miles east of New York, as the plane was climbing through 13,800 feet. The victims included celebrities in sports, entertainment and the arts, business people, and vacationers. Possibly the most poignant were the deaths of sixteen teen-agers, all students from the Montoursville, PA high school French club, and their five chaperones. There are several theories as to the cause of the explosion. Some believe that the airliner was sabotaged and destroyed by a bomb planted on board. Others swore they knew the plane had been struck by a U.S. missile. But, after a 16-month probe, the FBI announced it had found no evidence of a criminal act or stray (or otherwise) missile. It has concluded that the crash was caused by electrical arcing in the plane抯 center fuel tank igniting fuel vapors. 1998 - Just after seven in the evening, the inhabitants of the West Sepik area of Papua New Guinea felt the tremors from a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. Eye-witnesses reported that minutes later the villages were hit in quick succession by three tsunami (tidal waves) reaching heights of 14 meters (45 feet: taller than a four-story building), followed by two smaller waves. More than 2,000 people were killed and some 10,000 left homeless. In addition, many of the survivors were badly injured, with broken bones and bruising. Costas Synolakis, a researcher at UCLA and co-leader of a science team that visited PNG in early August 1998: 揥e were in a state of shock. It was really something we had not seen before. It was sort of a new threshold in terms of what a wave can do.? Click to Order Those Were the Days Deluxe Birthdays July 17 1744 - Elbridge Gerry politician: 5th vice president of the U.S. [1813-1814]; governor of Massachusetts: wrote a redistricting bill, hence the origin of the word 慻errymandering? died Nov 23, 1814 1763 - John Jacob Astor fur tycoon: American Fur Company; died Mar 29, 1848 1859 - Luis Munoz-Rivera Puerto Rican patriot; poet; journalist; died Nov 15, 1916 1889 - Erle Stanley Gardner (A.A. Fair) novelist: Perry Mason; died Mar 11, 1970 1898 - Berenice Abbott photographer: 1930s B/W photos of NYC: Changing New York; died in 1991 1899 - James Cagney (James Francis Cagney, Jr.) Academy Award-winning actor: Yankee Doodle Dandy [1942]; Mr. Roberts, The Seven Little Foys, Man of a Thousand Faces; died Mar 30, 1986 1905 - William Gargan actor: Dynamite, The Canterville Ghost, Rain; died Feb 17, 1979 1912 - Art Linkletter (Arthur Gordon Kelly) TV host: House Party, Kids Say the Darnedest Things 1916 - Eleanor Steber soprano: internationally acclaimed Metropolitan Opera diva, appeared in 50 different leading operatic roles, heard in more premiers at the Met than any other artist; died in 1990 1917 - Lou Boudreau Baseball Hall of Famer: Cleveland Indians shortstop [all-star: 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948/World Series/Baseball Writer抯 Award: 1948]; player, manager: Boston Red Sox; manager: KC Athletics; sportscaster: Chicago Cubs 1917 - Phyllis Diller (Driver) comedienne: The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show, actress: Boy Did I Get the Wrong Number 1929 - Roy (David) McMillan baseball: shortstop: Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Redlegs [all-star: 1956, 1957], Milwaukee Braves, NY Mets; died Nov 2, 1997 1932 - Bob Leonard basketball: All-American: Indiana University; coach: Indiana Pacers [Bobby 慡lick?Leonard] 1933 - Mimi Hines pop singer, actress: duo: Ford & Hines [w/husband, Phil Ford]; Broadway singer, actress: Funny Girl, Grease 1934 - Pat McCormick performer: The New Bill Cosby Show, The Don Rickles Show; writer: The Tonight Show, Jack Paar Show, Under the Rainbow; actor: Chinatown Connection, Smokey and the Bandit series, Buffalo Bill and the Indians; died July 29, 2005 1935 - Diahann Carroll (Carol Diahann Johnson) actress: Claudine, Julia, Dynasty, The Five Heartbeats 1935 - Donald Sutherland actor: JFK, Klute, Backdraft, M*A*S*H, The Dirty Dozen, National Lampoon抯 Animal House, Outbreak 1941 - Daryle Lamonica football: Oakland Raiders quarterback: Super Bowl II 1942 - Spencer Davis musician: group: Spencer Davis Group: Keep on Runnin?/i>, Somebody Help Me, Gimme Some Lovin?/i>, I抦 a Man 1942 - Connie (Cornelius) Hawkins Basketball Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Rens, Harlem Globetrotters, Pittsburgh Pipers, LA Lakers, Atlanta Hawks, Phoenix Suns [jersey retired Nov 19, 1976] 1942 - Don (Donald Eulon) Kessinger baseball: shortstop: Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974], SL Cardinals, Chicago White Sox 1948 - Cathy Ferguson swimming: U.S. Olympic gold medalist [Tokyo - 1964]: women抯 100-meter backstroke, women抯 400-meter medley relay w/Cynthia Goyette, Sharon Stouder, Kathleen Ellis 1949 - Terence 慓eezer?Butler musician: bass: group: Black Sabbath: Paranoid 1949 - Lon Hinkle golf: champ: World Series of Golf [1979] 1949 - Mick Tucker musician: drums: group: Sweet: Funny Funny, Co-Co, Little Willy, Wig Wam Bam, Blockbuster, Hell Raiser, Ballroom Blitz, Teenage Rampage, Fox on the Run; died Feb 14, 2002 1949 - Mike Vale musician: bass: group: Tommy James and the Shondells: Say I Am [What I Am], I Think We抮e Alone Now, Mirage, Mony Mony, Crimson and Clover, Sweet Cherry Wine, Crystal Blue Persuasion 1951 - Lucie Arnaz actress: They抮e Playing Our Song, Here抯 Lucy; Emmy Award-winning producer [w/Laurence Luckinbill]: Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie [1992-93]; Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz?daughter 1952 - David Hasselhoff actor: Bay Watch, Knight Rider, The Young and the Restless; TV talent-show judge: America抯 Got Talent 1952 - Nicolette Larson singer: Lotta Love; died Dec 16, 1997 1952 - Phoebe Snow (Laub) singer: Poetry Man, Gone at Last 1953 - Mike Thomas football: Washington Redskins RB [Offensive Rookie of the Year: 1975] 1955 - P.J. (Pamela Jane) Soles actress: Carrie, Rock 抧?Roll High School, Private Benjamin, Stripes, The Power Within 1960 - Robin Shou actor: Mortal Kombat, Beverly Hills Ninja, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation 1963 - Paul Hipp actor: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Lethal Weapon 3, The Chippendales Murder 1963 - Bobby (Robert Thomas) Thigpen baseball: pitcher: Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1990/record for saves: 57 in one season: 1990], Philadelphia Phillies [World Series: 1993], Seattle Mariners 1965 - Alex Winter actor: Bill & Ted抯 Excellent Adventure Chart Toppers July 17 1950Bewitched - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Mary Lou Williams) My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson) Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole Mississippi - Red Foley 1958The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley Hard Headed Woman - Elvis Presley Poor Little Fool - Ricky Nelson Guess Things Happen that Way - Johnny Cash 1966Hanky Panky - Tommy James & The Shondells Wild Thing - The Troggs You Don抰 Have to Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield Think of Me - Buck Owens 1974Rock Your Baby - George McCrae Annie抯 Song - John Denver On and On - Gladys Knight & The Pips He Thinks I Still Care - Anne Murray 1982Don抰 You Want Me - The Human League Rosanna - Toto Hurts So Good - John Cougar 扵ill You抮e Gone - Barbara Mandrell 1990Step By Step - New Kids on the Block She ain抰 Worth It - Glenn Medeiros featuring Bobby Brown Hold On - En Vogue The Dance - Garth Brooks Those were the days, my friend. 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历史上的今天:07月18日

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 18th, 1947, President Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act, which placed the speaker of the House and the Senate president pro tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president.
On this date:
In A.D. 64, the Great Fire of Rome began.

In 1872, Britain introduced the concept of voting by secret ballot.

In 1927, Ty Cobb hit safely for the 4,000th time in his career.


In 1936, the Spanish Civil War began.

In 1940, the Democratic national convention in Chicago nominated President Roosevelt for an unpreceden
ted third term in office.

In 1944, Hideki Tojo was removed as Japanese premier and war minister because of setbacks suffered by his country in World War Two.

In 1969, a car driven by Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Democrat, Massachusetts) plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard; passenger Mary Jo Kopechne died.

In 1984, a gunman opened fire at a McDonald's fast food restaurant in San Ysidro, California, killing 21 people before being shot dead by police.

In 1984, Walter F. Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco.

In 1989, actress Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, was shot to death at her Los Angeles home by obsessed fan Robert Bardo, who was later sentenced to life in prison.

Ten years ago: Dr. Karl Menninger, the dominant figure in American psychiatry for six decades, died in Topeka, Kansas, four days short of his 97th birthday.

Five years ago: Opening statements were presented in the trial of Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman charged with drowning her two young sons. Senate Republicans opened a new round of Whitewater hearings.

One year ago: Authorities looking into the disappearance of the plane carrying John F. Kennedy Junior, his wife and sister-in-law announced that the 'search and rescue' operation had become 'search and recovery.' David Cone of the New York Yankees pitched a perfect game against the Montreal Expos, leading his team to a 6-to-0 victory. Paul Lawrie won the British Open after Jean Van de Velde triple-bogeyed on the 72nd hole.

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 19th, 1848, a pioneer women's rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, New York.

On this date:
In 1870, the Franco-Prussian war began.

In 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his 'V for Victory' campaign in Europe.


In 1943, allied air forces raided Rome during World War Two.

In 1969, 'Apollo Eleven' and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon.

In 1975, the 'Apollo' and 'Soyuz' space capsules that were linked in orbit for two days separated.

In 1979, the Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after President Anastasio Somoza had fled the country.

In 1980, the Moscow Summer Olympics began, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.

In 1985, Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. (McAuliffe and six other crew members died when the 'Challenger' exploded shortly after lift-off.)

In 1986, Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy, married Edwin A. Schlossberg in Centerville, Massachusetts.

In 1989, 112 people were killed when a United Air Lines DC-10 crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa; 184 other people survived.

Ten years ago: President Bush joined former presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon at ceremonies dedicating the Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, California. Baseball's all-time hits leader Pete Rose was sentenced in Cincinnati to five months in prison for tax evasion.

Five years ago: The Dow Jones industrial average ended at 4628.87, down 57.41, after plunging more than 130 points earlier in the session. A pair of House subcommittees held a joint hearing on the federal government's raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas.

One year ago: Federal officials said radar data showed the plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Junior dropped 11,000 feet in just 14 seconds. Senator Edward Kennedy released a statement saying, 'We are filled with unspeakable grief and sadness by the loss of John and Carolyn and of Lauren Bessette.'

历史上的今天:07月20日

Today's Highlight in History: On July 20th, 1969, 'Apollo Eleven' astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon as they stepped out of their lunar module. On this date: In 1810, Colombia declared independence from Spain. In 1861, the Congress of the Confederate States began holding sessions in Richmond, Virginia. In 1871, British Columbia entered Confederation as a Canadian province. In 1881, Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn, surrendered to federal troops. In 1942, the first detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps -- later known as WACs -- began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. In 1944, an attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a bomb failed as the explosion at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters only wounded the Nazi leader. In 1944, President Roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented fourth term of office at the Democratic convention in Chicago. In 1951, Jordan's King Abdullah Ibn Hussein was assassinated in Jerusalem. In 1976, America's 'Viking One' robot spacecraft made a successful, first-ever landing on Mars. In 1982, Irish Republican Army bombs exploded in two London parks, killing eight British soldiers, along with seven horses belonging to the Queen's Household Cavalry. Ten years ago: Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, one of the court's most liberal voices, announced he was stepping down. A federal appeals court set aside Oliver North's Iran-Contra convictions, reversing one outright. Five years ago: Leaders of the University of California voted to drop affirmative action policies on admissions and hiring. Baseball Hall-of-Famers Duke Snider and Willie McCovey pleaded guilty in New York to tax evasion. One year ago: After 38 years at the bottom of the Atlantic, astronaut Gus Grissom's 'Liberty Bell Seven' Mercury capsule was lifted to the surface. 每日格言 'Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. -- Helen Rowland, American writer and humorist (1875-1950).

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历史上的今天:07月21日

Today's Highlight in History: On July 21st, 1925, the so-called "Monkey Trial" ended in Dayton, Tennessee, with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution. (The conviction was later overturned.) On this date: In 1831, Belgium became independent as Leopold the First was proclaimed King of the Belgians. In 1861, the first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Virginia, resulting in a Confederate victory. In 1899, author Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois; poet Hart Crane was born in Garrettsville, Ohio. In 1944, American forces landed on Guam during World War Two. In 1949, the US Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty. In 1954, France surrendered North Vietnam to the Communists. In 1955, during the Geneva summit, President Eisenhower presented his "open skies" proposal under which the U-S and the Soviet Union would trade information on each other's military facilities. In 1961, Captain Virgil "Gus" Grissom became the second American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around the Earth, flying aboard the "Liberty Bell Seven." In 1969, "Apollo Eleven" astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the lunar module. In 1980, draft registration began in the United States for 19- and 20-year-old men. Ten years ago: A day after Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan announced his retirement, President Bush convened a meeting with key administration officials to begin finding a replacement. Five years ago: At a 16-nation conference in London, the United States and NATO allies warned Bosnian Serbs that further attacks on UN safe havens would draw a "substantial and decisive response." One year ago: Navy divers found the bodies of John F. Kennedy J