【历史上的今天】07月23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23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="134" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/20061030151046734.gif" width="100" align="left" vspace="3" alt=""/><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>Today's Highlight in History: <br/></strong></em>On July 23rd, 1885, </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Ulysses S. Grant</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2">, the 18th president of the United States, died in Mount McGregor, New York, at age 63. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: </strong></em><br/>In 1829, William Austin Burt of Mount Vernon, Michigan, received a patent for his "typographer" -- a forerunner of the typewriter. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1886, New York saloonkeeper Steve Brodie claimed to have made a daredevil plunge from the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1914, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; the dispute led to World War One. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1945, French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the Vichy government during World War Two, went on trial, charged with treason. (He was condemned to death, but his sentence was commuted.) </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1951, Henri Petain died in prison. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1952, Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk the First. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1967, rioting that claimed some 43 lives erupted in Detroit. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1977, a jury in Washington DC convicted 12 Hanafi Muslims of charges stemming from the hostage siege at three buildings the previous March. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1985, bandleader Kay Kyser, known for his "Kollege of Musical Knowledge," died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at age 79. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1986, Britain's Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London. (The couple divorced in 1996.) </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: President Bush announced his choice of Judge David Souter of New Hampshire to succeed retiring Justice William J. Brennan on the US Supreme Court. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: In a new get-tough approach, the United Nations ordered the first combat unit from its rapid reaction force to Sarejevo to take out any rebel Serb guns that fired at UN peacekeepers. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: Members of the Kennedy family gathered in New York City for a private memorial Mass a week after John F. Kennedy Junior, his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died in a plane crash off Martha's Vineyard. Space shuttle "Columbia" blasted off with the world's most powerful X-ray telescope and Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a U-S space flight. Morocco's King Hassan the Second died at age 70. Woodstock '99 opened in Rome, New York. </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>Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are."</strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Arthur M. Schlesinger Junior, American historian.</em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>