【历史上的今天】09月16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16日</h1></font></th></tr><tr><td><hr size="1" bgcolor="#d9d9d9"/></td></tr><tr><td><img height="137" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/20061031131314734.gif" width="110" align="right" vspace="3" alt=""/><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>Today's Highlight in History: <br/></strong></em>On September 16th, 1940, </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Samuel T. Rayburn</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"> of Texas was elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: </strong></em><br/>In 1630, the Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1638, France's King Louis the 14th was born. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1810, Mexico began its revolt against Spanish rule. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1893, hundreds of thousands of settlers swarmed onto a section of land in Oklahoma known as the "Cherokee Strip." </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1919, the American Legion was incorporated by an act of Congress. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1940, President Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act, which set up the first peacetime military draft in US history. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1966, the Metropolitan Opera opened its new opera house at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1974, President Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam war deserters and draft-evaders. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1977, Maria Callas, the American-born prima donna famed for her lyric soprano and fiery temperament, died in Paris at age 53. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1982, the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children by Lebanese Christian militiamen began in west Beirut's Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: Iraqi television broadcast an eight-minute videotaped address by President Bush, who warned the Iraqi people that Saddam Hussein's brinksmanship could plunge them into war "against the world." </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: President Clinton voiced support for a Senate welfare overhaul plan sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. Shawntel Smith of Oklahoma was crowned "Miss America" at the pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: Hurricane "Floyd" hit the Carolinas and began making its way up the East Coast, damaging 12,000 homes and claiming more than 50 lives even after it weakened to a tropical storm. In southern Russia, an explosion described by authorities as the fourth massive terrorist attack in two weeks demolished an apartment building, killing at least 18 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>Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom." </strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Bergen Evans, American lexicographer (1904-1978). </em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>