【历史上的今天】11月11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:11月11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 November eleventh, 1918, fighting in World War One came to an end with the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: </strong></em><br/>In 1620, 41 Pilgrims aboard the "Mayflower," anchored off <img height="158" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/20061031143058734.gif" width="130" align="right" vspace="3" alt=""/></font><font face="Arial" size="2">Massachusetts, signed a compact calling for a "body politick." </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1831, former slave Nat Turner, who'd led a violent insurrection, was executed in Jerusalem, Virginia. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1889, Washington became the 42nd state. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1921, President Harding dedicated the </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Tomb of the Unknown Soldier </strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2">in Arlington National Cemetery. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1939, Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on network radio. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1965, Rhodesia proclaimed its independence from Britain. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1966, "Gemini 12" blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, with astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Junior aboard. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1972, the US Army turned over its base at Long Bihn to the South Vietnamese army, symbolizing the end of direct US military involvement in the Vietnam War. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1992, the Church of England voted to ordain women as priests. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1993, a bronze statue honoring the more than eleven-thousand American women who'd served in the Vietnam War was dedicated in Washington DC. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: Stormie Jones, the world's first heart-liver transplant recipient, died at a Pittsburgh hospital at age 13. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: With a partial government shutdown looming, President Clinton and Republican congressional leaders clashed over Medicare and bickered over who to include in compromise budget talks. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: A car bomb ripped through a Bogota commercial district, killing at least eight people, but President Andres Pastrana defiantly signed extradition orders for three suspected drug traffickers. Sixty-seven people were killed when an apartment building collapsed in Foggia, Italy; an investigation blamed the collapse on cheap materials and slipshod construction. Argentine journalist Jacobo Timerman died in Buenos Aires at age 76. </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>If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."</strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Herman Hesse, German novelist (1877-1962).</em></font><font face="Arial" size="2">
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