【历史上的今天】09月14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:09月14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/>On September 14th, 1940, Congress passed the Selective Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in US history. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date:</strong></em>
                                                        <img height="135" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/20061031131114734.gif" width="110" align="right" vspace="3" alt=""/></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><br/>In 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1847, US forces under General Winfield Scott took control of Mexico City. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1901, </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>President McKinley</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"> died in Buffalo, New York, of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1927, modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan died in Nice, France, when her scarf became entangled in a wheel of her sports car. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1948, a groundbreaking ceremony took place in New York at the site of the United Nations' world headquarters. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1959, the Soviet space probe "Luna Two" became the first manmade object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1975, Pope Paul the Sixth declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first US-born saint. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1982, Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries from a car crash the day before. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1982, Lebanon's president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, was killed by a bomb. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1988, Hurricane "Gilbert" slammed into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula after forcing thousands of residents to flee. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: During the Persian Gulf crisis, the US Navy reported that American troops had fired a warning shot at an Iraqi tanker, then boarded it briefly before allowing it to proceed. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: NATO called a temporary halt to its aerial pounding of Serb rebels while a US envoy tried to clinch an agreement on withdrawing the Serbs' big guns from around Sarajevo. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: Indonesian soldiers looted the abandoned UN mission in East Timor, just hours after 110 UN personnel and 13-hundred East Timorese were evacuated and flown to safety to end a ten-day siege. Hurricane "Floyd" clobbered the Bahamas, toppling power lines, ripping roofs off homes and pushing a roiling sea into streets before heading toward the southeastern United States. </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 venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." </strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Adlai E. Stevenson, American statesman (1900-1965).</em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>