【历史上的今天】09月13日

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<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" height="10"></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="90%" border="0"><tbody><tr><th><font color="#05006c"><h1>历史上的今天:09月13日</h1></font></th></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><br/>On September 13th, 1788, the Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election, and declared New York City the temporary national capital. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: <img height="129" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/20061031131028734.gif" width="110" align="right" vspace="3" alt=""/></strong></em></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong><br/></strong></em>In 1759, during the final French and Indian War, the British defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham overlooking Quebec City. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1803, Commodore John Barry, considered by many the father of the American Navy, died in Philadelphia. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1943, </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Chiang Kai-shek</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"> became president of China. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the US Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1949, the Ladies Professional Golf Association of America was formed in New York City, with Patty Berg as its first president. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1971, a four-day inmates' rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed 43 lives. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1977, conductor Leopold Stokowski died in Hampshire, England, at age 95. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1989, Fay Vincent was named commissioner of Major League Baseball, succeeding the late A. Bartlett Giamatti. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1993, at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1998, former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace died at age 79. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: The Senate Judiciary Committee opened its first day of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee David H. Souter, who firmly refused to discuss his views on abortion. NBC's cop-courtroom drama "Law &amp; Order" premiered on NBC. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: The FBI made at least a dozen arrests, capping a nationwide two-year investigation of pedophiles and pornographers using the America Online computer network. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: Israelis and Palestinians opened talks on a final peace accord. A suspected bomb devastated an eight-story apartment building in Moscow, killing at least 118 people. </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 do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing." </strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Honore de Balzac, French dramatist (1799-1850). </em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>