【历史上的今天】07月16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16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="108" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/200610301564734.gif" width="140" align="right" vspace="3" alt=""/><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>Today's Highlight in History: <br/></strong></em>One year ago, on July 16th, 1999, </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>John F. Kennedy Jr.</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2">, his wife, </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Carolyn</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2">, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died when the single-engine plane Kennedy was piloting plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: <br/></strong></em>In 1790, the District of Columbia was established as the seat of the United States government. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1862, David G. Farragut became the first rear admiral in the United States Navy. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1918, Russia's Czar Nicholas the Second, his empress and their five children were executed by the Bolsheviks. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1935, the first parking meters were installed, in Oklahoma City. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1945, the United States exploded its first experimental atomic bomb, in the desert of Alamogordo, New Mexico. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">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." </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1969, "Apollo Eleven" blasted off from Cape Kennedy on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">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. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1979, Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1980, former California Governor Ronald Reagan won the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Detroit. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">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. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">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. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: Stanley Kubrick's final film, "Eyes Wide Shut" starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, made its debut. </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>The fear of becoming a `has been' keeps some people from becoming anything." </strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Eric Hoffer, American author-philosopher (1902-1983). </em></font></p><br/><br/></td></tr></tbody></table>