【历史上的今天】11月21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21日</h1></font></th></tr><tr><td><hr size="1" bgcolor="#d9d9d9"/></td></tr><tr><td><img height="140" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/20061031144026734.gif" width="120" align="right" vspace="3" alt=""/><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>Today's Highlight in History: <br/></strong></em>On November 21st, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the US Constitution. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: <br/></strong></em>In 1877, inventor </font><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><strong>Thomas A. Edison</strong></font><font face="Arial" size="2"> announced the invention of his phonograph. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1899, Vice President Garret A. Hobart, serving under President McKinley, died in Paterson, New Jersey, at age 55. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1922, Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the US Senate. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1942, the Alaska highway across Canada was formally opened. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1964, New York's Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1969, the Senate voted down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, the first such rejection since 1930. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1973, President Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed the existence of an 18.5-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1979, a mob attacked the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing two Americans. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1980, eighty-seven people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1980, an estimated 83 million TV viewers tuned in to the CBS prime-time soap opera "Dallas" to find out "who shot J.R." (It turned out to be Kristin Shephard, played by Mary Crosby.) </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: President Bush arrived in Saudi Arabia, where he conferred with Saudi King Fahd and Kuwait's exiled emir. Junk-bond financier Michael R. Milken, who had pleaded guilty to six felony counts, was sentenced by a federal judge in New York to ten years in prison (Milken served two). </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: Balkan leaders meeting in Dayton, Ohio, initialed a peace plan to end three and a-half years of ethnic fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina. France detonated a fourth underground nuclear blast at its test site in the South Pacific. The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the five-thousand mark for the first time. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: President Clinton, speaking at a conference in Florence, Italy, called on prosperous nations to spread global wealth by helping poor countries with Internet hookups, cell phones, debt relief and small loans. China completed its first unmanned test of a spacecraft meant to carry astronauts. Quentin Crisp, the eccentric writer, performer and raconteur best-known for his autobiography "The Naked Civil Servant," died in Manchester, England, at age 90. </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>A concept is stronger than a fact." </strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Charlotte P. Gilman, American lecturer and author (1860-1935). </em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>