【历史上的今天】07月18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18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><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>Today's Highlight in History: <br/></strong></em>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. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: <br/></strong></em>In A.D. 64, the Great Fire of Rome began. <img height="151" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/2006103015652734.gif" width="110" align="right" vspace="3" alt=""/></font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1872, Britain introduced the concept of voting by secret ballot. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1927,</font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong> Ty Cobb</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"> hit safely for the 4,000th time in his career. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1936, the Spanish Civil War began. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1940, the Democratic national convention in Chicago nominated President Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term in office. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1944, Hideki Tojo was removed as Japanese premier and war minister because of setbacks suffered by his country in World War Two. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">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. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">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. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1984, Walter F. Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">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. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">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. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">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. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">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. </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>While we read history we make history."</strong>
                                                </font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- George William Curtis, American author-editor (1824-1892).</em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>