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【历史上的今天】08月10日
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="90%" border="0"><tbody><tr><th><font color="#05006c"><h1>历史上的今天:08月10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></font>On August tenth, 1846, Congress chartered the Smithsonian Institution, named after English scientist James Smithson, whose bequest of half a million dollars had made it possible. <img height="130" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/20061030171446734.gif" width="110" align="right" vspace="3" alt=""/>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: </strong></em><br/>In 1809, Ecuador struck its first blow for independence from Spain. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1821, Missouri became the 24th state. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1874, </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Herbert Clark Hoover</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2">, the 31st president of the United States, was born in West Branch, Iowa. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1944, during World War Two, American forces overcame remaining Japanese resistance on Guam. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1949, the National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1969, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson's cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were slain. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1975, television personality David Frost announced he had purchased the exclusive rights to interview former President Nixon. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1977, postal employee David Berkowitz was arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being "Son of Sam," the gunman responsible for six slayings and seven woundings. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1988, President Reagan signed a measure providing 20-thousand-dollar payments to Japanese-Americans interned during World War Two. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female justice on the Supreme Court. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry was convicted of a single misdemeanor drug charge and acquitted on another; the judge declared a mistrial on 12 other counts. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were charged with eleven counts in the Oklahoma City bombing (McVeigh was later convicted of murder and is on federal death row; Nichols was convicted of conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter). Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: A gunman opened fire at a Jewish community center in Los Angeles, wounding three boys, a teen-age girl and a woman; hours later, a gunman shot and killed letter carrier Joseph Ileto; a suspect, white supremacist Buford O. Furrow, faces charges in both shootings. </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>Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell."</strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American author (1879-1958).</em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table> |
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