【历史上的今天】10月04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04日</h1></font></th></tr><tr><td><hr size="1" bgcolor="#d9d9d9"/></td></tr><tr><td><img height="119" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/2006103114013734.gif" width="110" align="right" vspace="3" alt=""/><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>Today's Highlight in History: <br/></strong></em>On October fourth, 1970, rock singer </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Janis Joplin</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2">, 27, was found dead in her Hollywood hotel room. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: <br/></strong></em>In 1777, George Washington's troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Pennsylvania, resulting in heavy American casualties. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1822, the 19th president of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, was born in Delaware, Ohio. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1895, the first US Open golf tournament was held, at the Newport Country Club in Rhode Island. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1931, the comic strip "Dick Tracy," created by Chester Gould, made its debut. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the Alps, where the Nazi leader sought Italy's help in fighting the British. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit.</font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1958, the first trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service was begun by British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) with flights between London and New York. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1976, agriculture secretary Earl Butz resigned in the wake of a controversy over a joke he'd made about blacks. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1978, funeral services were held at the Vatican for Pope John Paul the First. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1980, some 520 people were forced to abandon the cruise ship "Prisendam" in the Gulf of Alaska after the Dutch luxury liner caught fire -- no deaths or serious injury resulted. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: For the first time in nearly six decades, German lawmakers met in the Reichstag for the first meeting of reunified Germany's parliament. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: Pope John Paul the Second arrived in the United States for a five-day visit. Hurricane "Opal" battered the Florida panhandle. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: An Illinois jury ordered State Farm to pay $456 million to 4.7 million customers in a lawsuit accusing the nation's largest car insurer of using inferior parts for auto body repairs. (Four days later, the judge ruled State Farm had committed fraud, and awarded $730 million in actual and punitive damages on top of the jury verdict. State Farm is appealing.) </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>He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid, ungenerous spirit."</strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Demosthenes, Greek statesman (384 B.C.-322 B.C.).</em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>