【历史上的今天】11月12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: </strong></em><br/>On November 12th, 1942, the World War Two naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. (The Americans ended up winning a major victory over the Japanese.) </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><img height="141" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/20061031143130734.gif" width="110" align="right" vspace="3" alt=""/></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: </strong></em><br/>In 1920, baseball got its first "czar" as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected commissioner of the American and National Leagues. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1921, representatives of nine nations gathered for the start of the Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1927, </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Josef Stalin</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"> became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1929, Grace Kelly -- the future movie star and Princess of Monaco -- was born in Philadelphia. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1948, former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War Two Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1954, Ellis Island closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since opening in New York Harbor in 1892. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1975, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired because of failing health, ending a record 36-and-a-half-year term. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1980, the US space probe "Voyager One" came within 77-thousand miles of Saturn. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1982, Yuri V. Andropov was elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1993, former Nixon White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman died in Santa Barbara, California, at age 67. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: Japanese Emperor Akihito formally assumed the Chrysanthemum Throne. Actress Eve Arden died in Beverly Hills, California, at age 82. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: Israel's ruling Labor Party unanimously approved Shimon Peres as its new leader, replacing slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The space shuttle "Atlantis" blasted off on a mission to dock with the Russian space station "Mir." </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: President Clinton signed a sweeping measure knocking down Depression-era barriers and allowing banks, investment firms and insurance companies to sell each other's products. An earthquake struck western Turkey, killing at least 834 people. </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>Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money."</strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Gertrude Stein, American author (1874-1946). </em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>