【历史上的今天】12月06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06日</h1></font></th></tr><tr><td><hr size="1" bgcolor="#d9d9d9"/></td></tr><tr><td><img height="145" hspace="4" src="/Uploadfile/2006-10/20061031145210734.gif" width="110" align="left" vspace="3" alt=""/><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>Today's Highlight in History: </strong></em><br/>On December sixth, 1889, <strong>Jefferson Davis</strong>, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, died in New Orleans. </font><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><em><strong>On this date: </strong></em><br/>In 1790, Congress moved from New York to Philadelphia. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1884, Army engineers completed construction of the Washington Monument. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1923, a presidential address was broadcast on radio for the first time as President Coolidge spoke to a joint session of Congress. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1939, the Cole Porter musical comedy "Du Barry Was a Lady" opened on Broadway. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1947, Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated by President Truman. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1957, America's first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1957, AFL-CIO members voted to expel the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. (The Teamsters were readmitted in 1987.) </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1969, a concert by The Rolling Stones at the Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California, was marred by the deaths of four people, including one who was stabbed by a Hell's Angel. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1973, House minority leader Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1988, rock-and-roll pioneer Roy Orbison died near Nashville, Tennessee, at age 52. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Ten years ago: Fourteen women were shot to death at at the University of Montreal's school of engineering by a man who then took his own life. Egon Krenz resigned as leader of East Germany. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Five years ago: Former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell pleaded guilty to defrauding his former law partners and clients of nearly $400,000. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen announced his resignation. Orange County, California, filed for bankruptcy protection due to investment losses of about two billion dollars. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">One year ago: In Venezuela, former Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez, who staged a bloody coup attempt against the government six years earlier, was elected president. Endeavour's astronauts connected the first two building blocks of the international space station in the shuttle cargo bay. </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>People who never get carried away should be."</strong></font></p><p align="right"><font face="Arial" size="1"><em>-- Malcolm S. Forbes, American publisher (1919-1990).</em></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>