【历史上的今天】08月03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03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>On August third, 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, on a voyage that took him to the present-day Americas. </font><p><img height="127" alt="" hspace="4" src="http://bbs.51ielts.com/Uploadfile/2006-10/2006103017558734.gif" width="100" align="right" vspace="3"/><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: </strong></em><br/>In 1914, Germany declared war on France. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1923, </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Calvin Coolidge</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"> was sworn in as the 30th president of the United States, following the death of Warren G. Harding. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1936, the State Department urged Americans in Spain to leave because of that country's civil war. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1949, the National Basketball Association was formed. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1958, the nuclear-powered submarine "Nautilus" became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1980, closing ceremonies were held in Moscow for the 1980 Summer Olympic Games, which had been boycotted by dozens of countries, including the United States. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1981, US air traffic controllers went on strike, despite a warning from President Reagan they would be fired. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1988, the Soviet Union released Mathias Rust (muh-TEE'-uhs rust), the young West German pilot who had landed a light plane in Moscow's Red Square in May 1987. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1993, the Senate voted 96-to-3 to confirm Supreme Court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1994, Stephen G. Breyer was sworn in as the Supreme Court's newest justice in a private ceremony at Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's Vermont summer home. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: A day after Iraq invaded Kuwait, thousands of Iraqi soldiers pushed to within a few miles of the border with Saudi Arabia, heightening world concerns that the invasion could spread. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: A Palestinian, Eyad Ismoil, was flown to the United States from Jordan to face charges he'd driven a bomb-laden van into New York's World Trade Center. (The 1993 explosion killed six people and injured more than one-thousand; Ismoil is serving a life sentence.) </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: Congressional Republicans, shrugging off a presidential veto threat, nailed down the details of an agreement for a ten-year, $792 billion tax cut. Arbitrators ruled the government had to pay the heirs of Dallas dressmaker Abraham Zapruder $16 million for his movie film that captured the assassination of President Kennedy. The first issue of Talk magazine hit newsstands. </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>When (Columbus) started out he didn't know where he was going; when he got there he didn't know where he was; and when he got back he didn't know where he had been."</strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Anonymous.</em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>

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