【历史上的今天】07月21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21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: </strong></em><br/>On July 21st, 1925, the so-called "Monkey Trial" ended in Dayton, Tennessee, with </font><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2">John T. Scopes</font><font face="Arial" size="2"> convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution. (The conviction was later overturned.) </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: </strong></em><br/>In 1831, Belgium became independent as Leopold the First was proclaimed King of the Belgians. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1861, the first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Virginia, resulting in a Confederate victory. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1899, author </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Ernest Hemingway</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"> was born in Oak Park, Illinois; poet Hart Crane was born in Garrettsville, Ohio. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1944, American forces landed on Guam during World War Two. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1949, the US Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1954, France surrendered North Vietnam to the Communists. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">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. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">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." </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1969, "Apollo Eleven" astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the lunar module. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1980, draft registration began in the United States for 19- and 20-year-old men. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">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. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">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." </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: Navy divers found the bodies of John F. Kennedy Junior, his wife, Carolyn, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, in the wreckage of Kennedy's plane in the Atlantic Ocean off Martha's Vineyard. Advertising executive David Ogilvy died in Bonnes, France, at age 88. </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>This is the final test of a gentleman: His respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."</strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- William Lyon Phelps, American educator (1865-1943). </em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>