【历史上的今天】09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:09月15日</h1></font></th></tr><tr><td><hr size="1" bgcolor="#d9d9d9"/></td></tr><tr><td><img height="94" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/20061031131218734.gif" width="264" align="right" vspace="3" alt=""/><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>Today's Highlight in History: </strong></em><br/>On September 15th, 1963, 11-year-old </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Denise McNair</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"> and three 14-year-olds: </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Cynthia Wesley</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2">, </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Carole Robertson</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"> and </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Addie Mae Collins</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"> were killed when a dynamite bomb exploded during Sunday services at the all-black 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: </strong></em><br/>In 1776, British forces occupied New York City during the American Revolution. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1789, the US Department of Foreign Affairs was renamed the Department of State. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1821, independence was proclaimed for Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1857, William Howard Taft -- who served as president of the United States and as chief justice -- was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1917, Russia was proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky, the head of a provisional government. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1940, during the Battle of Britain in World War Two, the tide turned as the Luftwaffe sustained heavy losses inflicted by the Royal Air Force. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1950, during the Korean conflict, United Nations forces landed at Inchon in the south and began their drive toward Seoul. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrived in the US to begin a 13-day visit. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1989, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Penn Warren, the first poet laureate of the United States, died in Stratton, Vermont, at age 84. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: France announced it would send 4,000 more soldiers to the Persian Gulf and expel Iraqi military attaches in Paris in response to Iraq's raids on French, Belgian and Canadian diplomatic compounds in Kuwait. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: Hurricane "Marilyn," the third major storm to batter the Caribbean in less than a month, hit the Virgin Islands with heavy rains and 100 mile-an-hour winds. The UN Fourth World Conference on Women adjourned in Beijing after approving a wide-ranging platform running the gamut from promoting inheritance rights to condemning rape in wartime. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: One month after being charged in the United States with laundering suspected drug payoffs, Mexico's former top drug prosecutor, Mario Ruiz Massieu, was found dead in his New Jersey apartment, an apparent suicide. Gunman Larry Ashbrook opened fire in a Fort Worth, Texas, Baptist church, killing seven people and himself. </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>God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road." </strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Isak Dinesen, Danish author (1885-1962).</em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>