【历史上的今天】12月02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:12月02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 December second, 1859, militant abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harper's Ferry the previous October. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: </strong></em><br/>In 1804, Napoleon was crowned emperor of France. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1816, the first savings bank in the United States, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, opened for business. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1823, President Monroe outlined his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1939, New York's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago landed at one minute past midnight. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1942, a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated for the first time at the University of Chicago. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1954, the Senate voted to condemn Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (Republican, Wisconsin) for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1961, Cuban leader <strong>Fidel Castro</strong> declared himself a Marxist-Leninist who would lead Cuba to Communism. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1969, the Boeing 747 jumbo jet got its first public preview as 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, flew from Seattle to New York City. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency began operating under director William Ruckelshaus. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1993, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot to death by security forces in Medellin. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev held the first talks of their wind-tossed Malta summit aboard the Soviet cruise ship "Maxim Gorky." V.P. Singh was sworn in as prime minister of India. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: The government agreed not to seek a recall of allegedly fire-prone General Motors pickup trucks, striking a deal with GM under which the automaker would spend more than $51 million on safety and research. Reputed "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss was convicted in Los Angeles of three counts of pandering. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: Former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy was acquitted of all counts in a corruption case involving sports tickets and travel that he'd accepted from companies that did business with his department. </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>Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes."</strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (1882-1967).</em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>