【历史上的今天】11月27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27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/><img height="134" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/20061031144444734.gif" width="110" align="left" vspace="3" alt=""/></font><font face="Arial" size="2">On November 27th, 1973, the Senate voted 92-to-3 to confirm <strong>Gerald R. Ford</strong> as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who'd resigned. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date:</strong></em>
                                                        <br/>In 1901, Army War College was established in Washington DC. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1910, New York's Pennsylvania Station opened. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1939, the play "Key Largo," by Maxwell Anderson, opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1942, during World War Two, the French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1945, General George C. Marshall was named special US envoy to China to try to end hostilities between the Nationalists and the Communists. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1953, playwright Eugene O'Neill died in Boston at age 65. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1970, Pope Paul the Sixth, visiting the Philippines, was slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1983, 183 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid's Barajas airport. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1985, the British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord giving Dublin a consultative role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: 107 people were killed when a bomb blamed by police on drug traffickers destroyed a Colombian jetliner, minutes after the plane had taken off from Bogota's international airport. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: Defense Secretary William Perry, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," suggested the Bosnian government had lost the war in the Balkans, and acknowledged NATO was powerless to stop the Serbs. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: Answering 81 questions put to him three weeks earlier, President Clinton wrote the House Judiciary Committee that his testimony in the Monica Lewinsky affair was "not false and misleading." </font></p><hr noshade="true" size="1"/><p align="center"><font face="Arial"><span class="thought">每日格言</span></font></p><p><strong>"</strong><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient."</strong>
                                                </font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- James Russell Lowell, American editor (1819-1891).</em></font><font face="Arial" size="2">
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