历史上的今天:11月26日
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Today's Highlight in History: On this date: In 1825, the first college social fraternity互助会，兄弟会, Kappa Alpha, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, New York. In 1940, the half-million Jews of Warsaw, Poland, were forced by the Nazis to live within a walled有墙壁的 ghetto犹太人区. In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline汽油 rationing定量供应, beginning December first. In 1949, India adopted a constitution as a republic within the British Commonwealth. In 1950, China entered the Korean conflict, launching a counter-offensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the US and South Korea. In 1965, France launched its first satellite, sending a 92-pound capsule胶囊，太空舱 into orbit. In 1973, President Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court that she'd accidentally caused part of the 18-and-a-half-minute gap in a key Watergate tape. In 1975, a federal jury in Sacramento, California, found Lynette Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, guilty of trying to assassinate President Ford. In 1986, President Reagan appointed a commission headed by former Senator John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff in the wake of紧紧跟随，随着……而来 the Iran-Contra affair. Ten years ago: Hungary held a national referendum公民投票，请示书 in which voters decided that the country's next president would be chosen by parliament, following free elections. Five years ago: Thirty clergymen were elevated提拔 to the rank of cardinal红衣主教 in a Vatican ceremony presided over by Pope John Paul the Second. Margaret Garrish, a 72-year-old Detroit woman, committed suicide in the presence of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. One year ago: In the first speech ever by a British prime minister to an Irish parliament, Tony Blair predicted预言 that Northern Ireland's troubled peace accord would ultimately work because of a strengthened cooperative spirit uniting Britain and Ireland. In India, at least 211 people died when two trains collided in the northern state of Punjab. |
