【历史上的今天】10月12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:10月12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="132" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/2006103114553734.gif" width="110" align="left" vspace="3" alt=""/></font><font face="Arial" size="2">On October 12th, 1997, singer </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>John Denver</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"> was killed in the crash of his privately built aircraft in Monterey Bay, California; he was 53. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: </strong></em><br/>In 1492 (Old Style calendar; October 21st New Style), Christopher Columbus arrived with his expedition in the present-day Bahamas. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1870, General Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Virginia, at age 63. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1915, English nurse Edith Cavell was executed by the Germans in occupied Belgium during World War One. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1933, bank robber John Dillinger escaped from a jail in Allen County, Ohio, with the help of his gang, who killed the sheriff. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1942, during World War Two, President Roosevelt delivered one of his so-called "fireside chats" in which he recommended the drafting of 18- and 19-year-old men. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1942, Attorney General Francis Biddle announced that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1960, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a UN General Assembly session by pounding his desk with a shoe during a dispute. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1964, the Soviet Union launched a "Voskhod" space capsule with a three-man crew on the first manned mission involving more than one crew member. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1968, the summer Games of the 19th Olympiad officially opened in Mexico City. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1973, President Nixon nominated House minority leader Gerald R. Ford of Michigan to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: The UN Security Council voted unanimously to condemn Israel's security forces for killing 17 Palestinian demonstrators on the Temple Mount. The Cincinnati Reds won the National League pennant, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-to-1. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: After a 48-hour delay, the US-brokered cease-fire in Bosnia-Herzegovina went into effect. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: Pakistan's military overthrew the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Ahmed H. Zewail of the California Institute of Technology won the Nobel Prize for chemistry; Dutch scientists Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman won the Nobel Prize for physics. NBA Hall-of-Famer Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain died at his Los Angeles home at age 63. </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>Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence." </strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Eddie Cantor, American comedian-singer (1892-1964). </em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>