【历史上的今天】07月22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22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 22nd, 1942, gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: <br/></strong></em>In 1796, Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by General Moses Cleaveland. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1916, a bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco, killing ten people. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1933, American aviator Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 and three-quarter hours. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1934, a man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1937, the Senate rejected President Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1943, American forces led by </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>General George S. Patton</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>
                                                        </strong>captured Palermo, Sicily. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1946, Jewish extremists blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 90 people. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1975, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1981, Turkish extremist Mehmet Ali Agca was sentenced in Rome to life in prison for shooting Pope John Paul the Second. (However, Agca was pardoned by Italy last month and sent to Turkey, where he will serve time for a killing that took place before the attack on the pope.) </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1996, friends and families gathered on a Long Island, New York, beach for a tearful memorial service dedicated to the 230 victims of the crash of TWA Flight 800. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: Voters in Mongolia began casting ballots in their Communist-ruled nation's first multiparty election ever. American Greg Lemond won his third Tour de France title. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: Susan Smith was convicted by a jury in Union, South Carolina, of first-degree murder for drowning her two sons. (She was later sentenced to life in prison.) </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: Family members watched mournfully from the deck of a Navy destroyer as the ashes of John F. Kennedy Junior, his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, were cast into the sea off Martha's Vineyard, consigned to the depths where they died. </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 truth is all things seen under the form of eternity." </strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- George Santayana, Spanish-American philosopher (1863-1952).</em></font><font face="Arial" size="2">
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