【历史上的今天】08月02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02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>Ten years ago, on August second, 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait, seizing control of the oil-rich emirate. President Bush condemned the incursion as an act of "naked aggression." (The Iraqis were later driven out in Operation Desert Storm.) </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: </strong></em><br/>In 1776, members of the Continental Congress began attaching their signatures to the Declaration of Independence. <img height="128" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/200610301737734.gif" width="110" align="right" vspace="3" border="1" alt=""/></font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1876, frontiersman "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1921, opera singer</font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong> Enrico Caruso</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"> died in Naples, Italy. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1923, the 29th president of the United States, Warren G. Harding, died in San Francisco. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1934, German President Paul von Hindenburg died, paving the way for Adolf Hitler's complete takeover. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1939, Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research program. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1943, a Navy patrol torpedo boat, PT-109, commanded by Lieutenant John F. Kennedy, sank after being sheared in two by a Japanese destroyer off the Solomon Islands. (Kennedy was credited with saving members of the crew.) </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1945, President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee concluded the Potsdam conference. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1964, the Pentagon reported the first of two attacks on US destroyers by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1980, 85 people were killed when a bomb exploded at the train station in Bologna, Italy. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1985, 137 people were killed when a Delta Air Lines jetliner crashed while attempting to land at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: Hurricane "Erin" came ashore near Vero Beach, Florida; the storm was blamed for eleven deaths. China ordered the expulsion of two US Air Force officers it said were caught spying on military sites. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: Launching another salvo in a war of nerves with rival Taiwan, China announced it had test-fired a new long-range missile. A train collision in India claimed 286 lives. </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>A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose."</strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German dramatist (1729-1781). </em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>