【历史上的今天】08月15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15日</h1></font></th></tr><tr><td><hr size="1" bgcolor="#d9d9d9"/></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>Today's Highlight in History: </strong></em><br/>August 15th, 1945, was proclaimed "V-J Day" by the Allies, a day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: </strong></em></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><br/>In 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the island of Corsica. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1935, humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1939, the MGM musical "The Wizard of Oz," starring </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Judy Garland</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2">, premiered at the Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1944, during World War Two, Allied forces landed in southern France. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1947, India became independent after some 200 years of British rule. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1948, the Republic of Korea was proclaimed. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1971, President Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1994, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal," was jailed in France after being captured in Sudan. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1998, 29 people were killed by a car bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland; a splinter group calling itself the Real I-R-A claimed responsibility. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: In an attempt to gain support against the US-led coalition in the Persian Gulf, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein offered to make peace with longtime enemy Iran. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: The Justice Department agreed to pay 3.1 million dollars to white separatist Randy Weaver and his family to settle their claims over the killing of Weaver's wife and son during a 1992 siege by federal agents at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Pioneering TV journalist and Timex watch pitchman John Cameron Swayze died in Sarasota, Florida, at age 89. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: President Clinton and his family went house-hunting in Westchester County, New York. (They later settled on a house in Chappaqua.) Tiger Woods won the PGA Championship, becoming the youngest player to win two majors since Seve Ballesteros.</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>We must not read either law or history backwards."</strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Helen M. Cam, English historian and educator (1885-1968). </em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>