【历史上的今天】11月15日

资料我最红

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="90%" border="0"><tbody><tr><th><font color="#05006c"><h1>历史上的今天:11月15日</h1></font></th></tr><tr><td><hr size="1" bgcolor="#d9d9d9"/></td></tr><tr><td><img height="101" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/20061031143458734.gif" width="130" align="right" vspace="3" alt=""/><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>Today's Highlight in History: <br/></strong></em>On November 15th, 1939, President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Jefferson Memorial </strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2">in Washington DC. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: </strong></em><br/>In 1777, the Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, a precursor to the Constitution of the United States. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1806, explorer Zebulon Pike sighted the mountaintop now known as "Pikes Peak." </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1889, Brazil's monarchy was overthrown. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1926, the National Broadcasting Company debuted with a radio network of 24 stations. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1940, the first 75,000 men were called to armed forces duty under peacetime conscription. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1966, the flight of "Gemini 12" ended successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Junior splashed down safely in the Atlantic. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1969, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington against the Vietnam War. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1982, funeral services were held in Moscow's Red Square for the late Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1985, Britain and Ireland signed an accord giving Dublin an official consultative role in governing Northern Ireland. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1998, Kwame Ture, the civil rights activist formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, died in Guinea at age 57. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: The Senate Ethics Committee began hearings on the "Keating Five," senators accused of going too far in helping failed savings-and-loan owner Charles H. Keating Junior. The space shuttle "Atlantis" was launched on a secret military mission. Milli Vanilli's producer confirmed rumors the duo had not done any of the singing on their debut album, "Girl You Know It's True." </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: A partial government shutdown stretched into a second day. The space shuttle "Atlantis" docked with the orbiting Russian space station "Mir." </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: The Clinton administration claimed victory in a seven-year struggle to persuade Congress to pay nearly $1 billion in back dues to the United Nations, saying restrictions in the deal on backing for international family planning would have no practical effect. Chinese and US negotiators reached a breakthrough agreement to remove trade barriers, clearing the biggest hurdle to China's entry into the World Trade Organization. </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>What was once thought can never be unthought."</strong>
                                                </font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss author and playwright (1921-1990). </em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>