February first
Today's Highlight in History:On February first, 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, where they'd been refused service
On this date:
In 1861, Texas voted to secede from the Union
In 1893, inventor Thomas A
Edison completed work on the world's first motion picture studio, his "Black Maria," in West Orange, New Jersey
In 1896, Puccini's opera "La Boheme" premiered in Turin
In 1920, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police came into existence
In 1943, one of America's most highly decorated military units of World War Two, the 442d Regimental Combat Team, made up almost entirely of Japanese-Americans, was authorized
In 1946, Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen to be the first secretary-general of the United Nations
In 1968, during the Vietnam War, Saigon's police chief (Nguyen Ngoc Loan) executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head in a scene captured in a famous news photograph
In 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini received a tumultuous welcome in Tehran as he ended nearly 15 years of exile
In 1979, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst, whose prison sentence for bank robbery had been commuted by President Jimmy Carter, left a federal prison near San Francisco
In 1991, 35 people were killed when a USAir jetliner crashed atop a commuter plane at Los Angeles International Airport
Ten years ago: East Germany's Communist premier, Hans Modrow, appealed for negotiations with West Germany to forge a "united fatherland
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Five years ago: The Federal Reserve boosted interest rates by one-half of a percent, the seventh rate hike in a year
House Republicans pushed through a bill restricting the federal government's ability to impose unfunded mandates on states
One year ago: With the promise of huge federal surpluses, President Clinton proposed a $1
77 trillion budget for fiscal 2000
Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky gave a deposition that was videotaped for senators weighing impeachment charges against President Clinton
每日格言
"When you look into a mirror you do not see your reflection -- your reflection sees you
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-- Anonymous
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