【历史上的今天】11月13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13日</h1></font></th></tr><tr><td><hr size="1" bgcolor="#d9d9d9"/></td></tr><tr><td><img height="118" alt="" hspace="4" src="http://bbs.51ielts.com/Uploadfile/2006-10/20061031143216734.gif" width="100" align="left" vspace="3"/><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>Today's Highlight in History: <br/></strong></em>On November 13th, 1789, </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Benjamin Franklin</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"> wrote a letter to a friend in which he said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date:</strong></em><br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br/>In 1775, during the American Revolution, US forces captured Montreal. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1927, the Holland Tunnel opened to the public, providing access between New York City and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1940, the Walt Disney animated movie "Fantasia" had its world premiere in New York. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1942, the minimum draft age was lowered from 21 to 18. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1956, the Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1969, speaking in Des Moines, Iowa, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network television news departments of bias and distortion, and urged viewers to lodge complaints. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1974, Karen Silkwood, a technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, died in a car crash. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1977, the comic strip "Li'l Abner" by Al Capp appeared in newspapers for the last time. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1985, some 23,000 residents of Armero, Colombia, died when a gigantic mudslide buried the city. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: Secretary of State James A. Baker the Third told reporters in Hamilton, Bermuda, the Persian Gulf crisis threatened world recession and the loss of American jobs. Members of Congress demanded a larger role in US Gulf policy following President Bush's decision to send more US troops to the region. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: Seven people, including five Americans, were killed when a bomb exploded at a military training facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The government braced for imminent partial shutdown as President Clinton vetoed one budget bill and prepared to reject another in a fiscal standoff with Republicans. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: The Navy recovered the cockpit voice recorder from EgyptAir Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean October 31st with the loss of all 217 people aboard. Lennox Lewis became the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, winning a unanimous decision over Evander Holyfield in Las Vegas. Donald Mills, last surviving member of the singing Mills Brothers, died in Los Angeles at age 84. </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>As you live, believe in life. Always human beings will live and profess to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long." </strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- W.E.B. Du Bois, American author and reformer (1868-1963).</em></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>

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