【历史上的今天】08月01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:08月01日</h1></font></th></tr><tr><td><hr size="1" bgcolor="#d9d9d9"/></td></tr><tr><td><img height="140" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/20061030155843734.gif" width="110" align="right" vspace="3" alt=""/><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>Today's Highlight in History: <br/></strong></em>On August first, 1946, President Truman signed the Fulbright Program into law, establishing the scholarships named for </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Senator J. William Fulbright. </strong></font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: <br/></strong></em>In 1790, the first United States census was completed, showing a population of nearly four million people. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1873, inventor Andrew S. Hallidie successfully tested a cable car he had designed for the city of San Francisco. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1876, Colorado was admitted as the 38th state. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1936, the Olympic games opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1943, race-related rioting erupted in New York's Harlem section, resulting in several deaths. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1944, an uprising broke out in Warsaw, Poland, against Nazi occupation, a revolt that lasted two months before collapsing. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1946, the Atomic Energy Commission was established. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1957, the United States and Canada reached agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1966, 25-year-old Charles Joseph Whitman shot and killed 15 people at the University of Texas before he was gunned down by police. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1975, a 35-nation summit in Helsinki, Finland, concluded with the signing of an accord dealing with European security, human rights and East-West contacts. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: In Trinidad, dozens of Muslim militants surrendered and freed 42 hostages they had seized six days earlier in a failed bid to overthrow the government. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: In the second TV network takeover in as many days, Westinghouse Electric Corporation struck a deal to buy CBS for $5.4 billion. (A day earlier, Walt Disney had agreed to acquire Capital Cities-ABC for $19 billion.) </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: A heat wave that had gripped the nation since mid-July finally broke; authorities attributed nearly 200 deaths to the heat and humidity. </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>People say law but they mean wealth."</strong>
                                                </font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet and philosopher (1803-1882).</em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>