【历史上的今天】09月19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19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: <br/></strong></em>On September 19th, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, American soldiers won the first Battle of Saratoga. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: </strong></em><br/>In 1796, President Washington's farewell address was published. <img height="124" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/2006103113159734.gif" width="110" align="right" vspace="3" alt=""/></font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1881, the 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, died of wounds inflicted by an assassin. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1906, addressing the annual dinner of The Associated Press in New York, </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Mark Twain</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"> said there were "only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe ... the sun in the heavens and The Associated Press down here." </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1934, Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh infant. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1955, President Juan Peron of Argentina was ousted after a revolt by the army and navy. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1957, the United States conducted its first underground nuclear test, in the Nevada desert. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1959, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reacted angrily during a visit to Los Angeles upon being told that, for security reasons, he wouldn't be allowed to visit Disneyland. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1960, Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in New York to visit the United Nations, angrily checked out of the Shelburne Hotel in a dispute with the management. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1970, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" debuted on CBS TV. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1985, the Mexico City area was struck by the first of two devastating quakes that claimed some six-thousand lives. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: Iraq began confiscating foreign assets from countries that were imposing sanctions against the Baghdad government. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: The New York Times and The Washington Post published the Unabomber's manifesto. The Senate passed a welfare overhaul bill. The US ambassador and the commander of American forces in Japan apologized for the rape of an Okinawan schoolgirl committed by three US servicemen. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: German voters handed Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's governing Social Democrats a humiliating defeat in elections in the eastern state of Saxony, giving it just eleven percent of the votes. </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>There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."</strong>
                                                </font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Dame Rebecca West, Irish-born novelist (1892-1983). </em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>