【历史上的今天】07月13日

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<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="90%" border="0"><tbody><tr><th><font color="#05006c"><h1>历史上的今天:07月13日</h1></font></th></tr><tr><td><hr size="1" bgcolor="#d9d9d9"/></td></tr><tr><td align="center" height="20"><a class="siteurl" href="http://www.iselong.com/" target="_blank"></a></td></tr><tr><td><img height="148" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/2006103015423734.gif" width="110" align="right" vspace="3" alt=""/><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>Today's Highlight in History: <br/></strong></em>On July 13th, 1960, </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>John F. Kennedy</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"> won the Democratic presidential nomination at his party's convention in Los Angeles. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: </strong></em><br/>In 1787, Congress enacted an ordinance governing the Northwest Territory. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1793, French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1863, deadly rioting against the Civil War military draft erupted in New York City. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1878, the Treaty of Berlin amended the terms of the Treaty of San Stefano, which had ended the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1967, race-related rioting that claimed 27 lives broke out in Newark, New Jersey. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1974, the Senate Watergate Committee proposed sweeping reforms in an effort to prevent another Watergate scandal. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1977, a blackout lasting 25 hours hit the New York City area. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1978, Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Company by chairman Henry Ford the Second. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1979, a 45-hour siege by Palestinian guerrillas began at the Egyptian Embassy in Ankara, Turkey. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1985, "Live Aid," an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, took place to raise money for Africa's starving people. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">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. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">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. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">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. </font></p><hr noshade="true" size="1"/><p align="center"><font face="Arial"><span class="thought">每日格言</span></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><strong>"</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never."</strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813-1855). </em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>