【历史上的今天】08月08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08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><img height="129" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/20061030171328734.gif" width="100" align="right" vspace="3" alt=""/><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>Today's Highlight in History: </strong></em><br/>On August eighth, 1974, </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>President Nixon </strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2">announced he would resign following new damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: <br/></strong></em>In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena to spend the remainder of his days in exile. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1876, Thomas A. Edison received a patent for his mimeograph. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1942, six convicted Nazi saboteurs who'd landed in the US were executed in Washington DC; two others received life imprisonment. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1945, President Truman signed the United Nations Charter. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1945, the Soviet Union declared war against Japan during World War Two. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1953, the United States and South Korea initialed a mutual security pact. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1963, Britain's "Great Train Robbery" took place as thieves made off with 2.6 million pounds in banknotes. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1968, Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican national convention in Miami Beach. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew branded as "damned lies" reports he had taken kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland, and vowed not to resign -- which he eventually did. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1978, the US launched "Pioneer Venus Two," which carried scientific probes to study the atmosphere of Venus. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: As the Persian Gulf crisis deepened, American forces began taking up positions in Saudi Arabia; Iraq announced it had annexed Kuwait; President Bush warned Iraqi President Saddam Hussein that "a line has been drawn in the sand." </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: President Clinton, during a visit to Baltimore, ordered all companies doing business with the federal government to report the pollution they cause. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: Opening a new attack on the Republican tax-cut measure, President Clinton warned the nation's governors at their meeting in St. Louis that the $792 billion package would trigger "huge cuts" in Medicare, farm programs and other spending critical to their voters. </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>I think most people are more important than their opinions." </strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author (1899-1986).</em></font><font face="Arial" size="2">
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