10-01-04 Today's Highlight in History: On January fourth, 1965, President Johnson outlined the goals of his Great Society in his State of the Union Address. On this date: In 1809, Louis Braille, inventor of a reading system for the blind, was born in Coupvra...

10-01-04 Today's Highlight in History: On January third, 1959, President Eisenhower signed a proclamation公布，宣告 admitting Alaska to the Union as the 49th state. On this date: In 1521, Martin Luther was excommunicated逐出教会 from the Roman Catholic Churc...

10-01-04 Today's Highlight in History: One hundred years ago, on January second, 1900, Secretary of State John Hay announced the Open Door Policy门户开放政策 to facilitate促进，帮助 trade with China. On this date: In 1492, the leader of the last Arab strongh...

10-01-04 Today's Highlight in History: On January first, 1863, President Lincoln signed the Emancipation释放，解放 Proclamation, declaring that slaves in rebel states were free. On this date: In 1892, the Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York formally o...

10-01-04 Today's Highlight in History: On December 31st, 1879, Thomas Edison first publicly demonstrated his electric incandescent light白炽灯，长明灯 in Menlo Park, New Jersey. On this date: In 1775, the British repulsed驱逐，拒绝 an attack by Continental A...

10-01-04 Today's Highlight in History: On December 30th, 1922, Vladimir I. Lenin proclaimed声明，宣告 the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. On this date: In 1853, the United States bought some 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico i...

10-01-04 Today's Highlight in History: On December 29th, 1851, the first American Young Men's Christian Association was organized, in Boston. On this date: In 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in Canterbury坎特伯雷 Cathedral in England. In 1808, th...

10-01-04 Today's Highlight in History: On December 28th, 1917, the New York Evening Mail published a facetious滑稽的 essay by H.L. Mencken on the history of bathtubs浴缸 in America. (The essay claimed, for example, that Millard Fillmore was the first preside...