09-12-06 Today's Highlight in History: On December sixth, 1889, Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, died in New Orleans. On this date: In 1790, Congress moved from New York to Philadelphia费城 . In 1884, Army e...
09-12-06 Today's Highlight in History: On December fifth, 1933, national Prohibition came to an end as Utah犹他州 became the 36th state to ratify批准 the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing the 18th Amendment. On this date: In 1776, the first schol...
09-12-06 Today's Highlight in History: On December fourth, 1783, General George Washington bade farewell告别,辞行 to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York. On this date: In 1816, James Monroe of Virginia was elected the fifth president of the United S...
09-12-06 Today's Highlight in History: On December third, 1967, surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky, who lived 18 days with the new heart. On this date: In 1818, Il...
09-12-06 Today's Highlight in History: On December second, 1859, militant abolitionist废权主义者 John Brown was hanged for his raid突击搜捕,袭击 on Harper's Ferry the previous October. On this date: In 1804, Napoleon was crowned emperor of France. In 1816,...
09-12-06 Today's Highlight in History: On December first, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress女裁缝 , refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus. Mrs. Parks was arrested, sparking a year-long boycott抵制,拒绝 of the buses...
09-12-06 Today's Highlight in History: On November 30th, 1782, the United States and Britain signed preliminary初步的,开始的 peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War. On this date: In 1804, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase went on trial, accu...
09-12-06 Today's Highlight in History: On November 29th, 1952, President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower kept his campaign promise to visit Korea to assess估定,评定 the ongoing conflict. On this date: In 1530, Cardinal红衣主教 Thomas Wolsey, onetime adviser to E...
09-12-06 Today's Highlight in History: On November 28th, 1520, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan麦哲伦 reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait海峡 that now bears his name. On this date: In 1919, American-born Lady Asto...
09-12-06 Today's Highlight in History: On November 27th, 1973, the Senate voted 92-to-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding接任 Spiro T. Agnew, who'd resigned. On this date: In 1901, Army War College was established in Washington DC. In 1...