【历史上的今天】07月29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29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 29th, 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NASA. <img height="141" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/20061030151452734.gif" width="110" align="right" vspace="3" alt=""/></font>
                                        <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: </strong></em><br/>In 1588, the English soundly defeated the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1890, artist </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Vincent van Gogh</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"> died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1900, Italian King Humbert the First was assassinated by an anarchist; he was succeeded by his son, Victor Emmanuel the Third. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1914, transcontinental telephone service began with the first phone conversation between New York and San Francisco. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1948, Britain's King George the Sixth opened the Olympic Games in London. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1957, the International Atomic Energy Agency was established. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1967, fire swept the USS "Forrestal" in the Gulf of Tonkin, killing 134 servicemen. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1975, President Ford became the first US president to visit the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland as he paid tribute to the victims. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1980, a state funeral was held in Cairo, Egypt, for the deposed Shah of Iran, who had died two days earlier at age 60. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1981, Britain's Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: Bruno Kreisky, Austria's longest-serving chancellor and an architect of its policy of neutrality, died at age 79. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: President Clinton and Republicans marked the 30th anniversary of Medicare by accusing one another of putting the program's future at risk. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: A day trader, apparently upset over stock losses, opened fire in two Atlanta brokerage offices, killing nine people and wounding 13 before shooting himself to death; authorities say Mark O. Barton also killed his wife and two children. California Governor Gray Davis abandoned the state's effort to preserve Proposition 187, a divisive voter-approved ban on schooling and other public benefits for illegal immigrants. </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 fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line." </strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- O.A. Battista, Canadian-born author-scientist. </em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>