【历史上的今天】08月11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11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: </strong></em></font>On August eleventh, 1909, the S-O-S distress signal was first used by an American ship, the "Arapahoe," off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. <img height="91" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/20061030171637734.gif" width="120" align="right" vspace="3" alt=""/>
                                        <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: </strong></em><br/>In 1860, the nation's first successful silver mill began operation near Virginia City, Nevada. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1934, the first federal prisoners arrived at the island prison </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Alcatraz</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"> in San Francisco Bay. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1942, during World War Two, Vichy government official Pierre Laval publicly declared that "the hour of liberation for France is the hour when Germany wins the war." </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1954, a formal peace took hold in Indochina, ending more than seven years of fighting between the French and Communist Vietminh. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1956, abstract artist Jackson Pollock died in an automobile accident in East Hampton, New York. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1962, the Soviet Union launched cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev on a 94-hour flight. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1965, rioting and looting that claimed 34 lives broke out in the predominantly black Watts section of Los Angeles. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1984, President Reagan joked during a voice test for a paid political radio address that he had "signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1993, President Clinton named Army General John Shalikashvili to be the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, succeeding General Colin Powell. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1997, President Clinton made the first use of the historic line-item veto approved by Congress, rejecting three items in spending and tax bills. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: Egyptian and Moroccan troops arrived in Saudi Arabia to join US forces in helping to protect the desert kingdom from possible Iraqi attack. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: President Clinton banned all US nuclear tests, calling his decision "the right step as we continue pulling back from the nuclear precipice." </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: White supremacist Buford O. Furrow, wanted in the wounding of five people at a Los Angeles Jewish community center and the shooting death of a mail carrier the day before, turned himself in to the FBI in Las Vegas, and waived extradition to Los Angeles. A tornado tore across Salt Lake City, killing one person. </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>Conceit is God's gift to little men." </strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Bruce Barton, American advertising executive (1886-1967). </em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>