日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July 25th, 1866, Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army, the first officer to hold the rank. On this date: In 1593, France's King Henry the Fourth converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. In 1868, C... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July 23rd, 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died in Mount McGregor, New York, at age 63. On this date: In 1829, William Austin Burt of Mount Vernon, Michigan, received a patent for his... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July 22nd, 1942, gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard. On this date: In 1796, Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by General Moses Cleaveland. In 1916, a bomb went off during a P... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July 21st, 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial ended in Dayton, Tennessee, with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution. (The conviction was later overturned.) On this d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July 20th, 1969, Apollo Eleven astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon as they stepped out of their lunar module. On this date: In 1810, Colombia declared independence... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July 19th, 1848, a pioneer women's rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, New York. On this date: In 1870, the Franco-Prussian war began. In 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his V for Vict... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July 18th, 1947, President Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act, which placed the speaker of the House and the Senate president pro tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president. On this da... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: One year ago, on July 16th, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died when the single-engine plane Kennedy was piloting plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha's Vineyard, M... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July 15th, 1975, three American astronauts blasted off aboard an Apollo spaceship hours after two Soviet cosmonauts were launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft for a mission that included a linkup of the two ships in orb... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July 13th, 1960, John F. Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination at his party's convention in Los Angeles. On this date: In 1787, Congress enacted an ordinance governing the Northwest Territory. In 1793, F... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July eleventh, 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken, New Jersey. On this date: In 1533, Pope Clement the Seventh excommunicated... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July ninth, 1850, the 12th president of the United States, Zachary Taylor, died after serving only 16 months of his term. On this date: In 1540, England's King Henry the Eighth had his six-month-old marriage to his f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July seventh, 1865, four people were hanged in Washington DC for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Lincoln. On this date: In 1846, US annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July sixth, 1957, Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2. On this date: In 1535, Sir Thomas More was executed in England f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July fifth, 1947, Larry Doby signed a contract with the Cleveland Indians, becoming the first black player in the American League. On this date: In 1801, American naval hero David G. Farragut was born in Knoxville, T... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July fourth, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. On this date: In 1802, the United States Military Academy officially opened at West Point, New York. In 1831, the fifth president o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July third, 1930, Congress created the US Veterans Administration. On this date: In 1608, the city of Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain. In 1775, General George Washington took command of the Continental Army... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July second, 1776, the Continental Congress passed a resolution saying that these United Colonies are, and of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States. On this date: In 1881, President Garfield was shot by Cha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July first, 1867, Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain as the British North America Act took effect. On this date: In 1863, the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg began. In 1898, during the Spanish-Am... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-15 Today's Highlight in History: On June 29th, 1970, the United States ended a two-month military offensive into Cambodia. On this date: In 1767, the British Parliament approved the Townshend Revenue Acts, which imposed import duties on certain goods s... 阅读全文>>