【历史上的今天】07月31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31日</h1></font></th></tr><tr><td><hr size="1" bgcolor="#d9d9d9"/></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>Today's Highlight in History: </strong></em><br/>On July 31st, 1556, St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus -- the Jesuit order of Catholic priests and brothers -- died in Rome. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: </strong></em><img height="130" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/20061030155729734.gif" width="100" align="right" vspace="3" alt=""/></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><br/>In 1498, during his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus arrived at the island of Trinidad. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1777, the Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman, was made a major-general in the American Continental Army. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1875, the 17th president of the United States, </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Andrew Johnson</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2">, died in Carter Station, Tennessee, at age 66. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1919, Germany's Weimar Constitution was adopted. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1948, President Truman helped dedicate New York International Airport (later John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild Field. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1953, Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, known as "Mr. Republican," died in New York at age 63. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1964, the American space probe "Ranger Seven" transmitted pictures of the moon's surface. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1981, the leader of Panama, General Omar Torrijos, was killed in a plane crash. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1981, a seven-week-old Major League Baseball strike ended. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1989, a pro-Iranian group in Lebanon released a grisly videotape purportedly showing the body of American hostage William R. Higgins dangling from a rope. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: Pitcher Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers became the 20th major leaguer to win 300 games as he led his team to victory over the Milwaukee Brewers 11-to-3. Shoal Creek, a private club in Birmingham, Alabama, that drew criticism for being all-white, announced it had accepted a black businessman as an honorary member. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: The Walt Disney Company agreed to acquire Capital Cities-ABC Incorporated in a $19 billion deal. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: Chicago authorities said as many as 46 more residents had died as a result of a relentless heat wave that enveloped much of the nation and produced the hottest July on record in New York City. </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>We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out." </strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer-author (1858-1933). </em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>