【历史上的今天】11月08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:11月08日</h1></font></th></tr><tr><td><hr size="1" bgcolor="#d9d9d9"/></td></tr><tr><td><img height="148" alt="" hspace="4" src="http://bbs.51ielts.com/Uploadfile/2006-10/20061031142540734.gif" width="110" align="right" vspace="3"/><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>Today's Highlight in History: </strong></em><br/>On November eighth, 1960, Massachusetts Senator </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>John F. Kennedy</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"> defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: <br/></strong></em>In 1837, Mount Holyoke Seminary, a college exclusively for women, opened in South Hadley, Massachusetts. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1889, Montana became the 41st state. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1923, Adolf Hitler launched his first attempt at seizing power with a failed coup in Munich, Germany, the "Beer-Hall Putsch." </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1932, New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated incumbent Herbert Hoover for the presidency. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1933, President Roosevelt created the Civil Works Administration, designed to create jobs for more than four million unemployed. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1942, Operation "Torch" began during World War Two as US and British forces landed in French North Africa. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1950, during the Korean conflict, the first jet-plane battle took place as US Air Force Lieutenant Russell J. Brown shot down a North Korean MiG-15. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1966, Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1988, Vice President George Bush won the presidential election, defeating Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1994, midterm elections resulted in Republicans winning a majority in the Senate while at the same time gaining control of the House for the first time in 40 years. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: President Bush ordered a new round of troop deployments in the Persian Gulf, adding up to 150-thousand soldiers to the multinational force facing off against Iraq. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: Retired General Colin Powell embraced the Republican Party, but said he would not run for president or any other political office in 1996 because it was "a calling that I do not yet hear." </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators launched landmark talks, giving themselves an ambitious 100-day deadline to craft the broad outlines of a peace agreement. Former President Bush was honored in Germany for his role in the fall of the Berlin Wall ten years earlier. President Clinton participated in a "virtual town hall meeting" on the Internet, answering questions from pre-screened online users. </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>Man is born to live, not to prepare for life." </strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Boris Pasternak, Russian author (1890-1960). </em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>

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