【历史上的今天】10月02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:10月02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><img height="137" alt="" hspace="4" src="http://bbs.51ielts.com/Uploadfile/2006-10/2006103113562734.gif" width="110" align="left" vspace="3"/></font><font face="Arial" size="2">On October second, 1950, the comic strip "Peanuts," created by </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Charles M. Schulz</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2">, was first published in nine newspapers. <img height="101" alt="" hspace="4" src="http://bbs.51ielts.com/Uploadfile/2006-10/2006103113563580.gif" width="130" align="right" vspace="3"/></font><font face="Arial" size="2">(Also pictured: panel from Oct. 2, 1950 comic strip.)</font><br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: <br/></strong></em>In 1780, British spy John Andre was hanged in Tappan, New York. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1835, the first battle of the Texas Revolution took place as American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry near the Guadalupe River. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1890, comedian Groucho Marx was born in New York. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1919, President Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1941, German armies began Operation "Typhoon" -- an all-out drive against Moscow. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1944, Nazi troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people were killed. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1958, the former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as an associate justice of the US Supreme Court; he was the first black appointed to the nation's highest court. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1975, President Ford welcomed Japan's Emperor Hirohito to the United States. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1985, actor Rock Hudson died at his home in Beverly Hills, California, at age 59 after a battle with AIDS. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: The Senate voted 90-to-nine to confirm the nomination of Judge David H. Souter to the Supreme Court. President Bush, trying to muster acceptance for a $500 billion package of tax increases and spending cuts, asked Americans in a televised address to support the plan. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: O.J. Simpson's jurors stunned the courtroom and the nation by reaching verdicts in the sensational eight-month murder trial in less than four hours. (The decision was kept secret until the following day, when it was announced that Simpson had been acquitted.) </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: The Brooklyn Museum of Art opened its much-hyped "Sensation" exhibit which had drawn controversy because of New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's move to cut off city funding to the museum. (Giuliani objected to some of the artwork, which included a portrait of the Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung.) </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>The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do."</strong><br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Booker T. Washington, American educator and author (1856-1915).</em></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>

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