历史上的今天:11月25日
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Today's Highlight in History: On this date: In 1783, the British evacuated（撤离） New York, their last military position in the United States during the Revolutionary War. In 1835, American industrialist Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland. In 1920, radio station WTAW of College Station, Texas, broadcast the first play-by-play description of a football game, between the University of Texas and Texas A&M. In 1957, President Eisenhower suffered a slight stroke. In 1973, Greek President George Papadopoulos was ousted in a bloodless military coup. In 1974, former UN Secretary-General U Thant died in New York at age 65. In 1980, Sugar Ray Leonard regained the World Boxing Council welterweight（次重量级拳击手） championship when Roberto Duran abruptly（突然地） quit in the eighth round at the Louisiana Superdome. In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted（爆发） as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to（转入，转向） Nicaraguan rebels. In 1987, Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago, died in office at age 65. Ten years ago: Poland held its first popular presidential election. (Solidarity团结 founder Lech Walesa, who received a plurality复数性，大多数 of votes, won a runoff决定性竞赛 the following month.) Five years ago: In his weekly radio address, President Clinton appealed to America's values and interests as he pleaded for support for the Bosnia peace agreement. Serbs in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo took to the streets by the thousands to protest the peace plan, vowing to fight to the death. One year ago: Five-year-old Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida. Elian was one of three survivors from a boat carrying 14 Cubans that had sunk two days earlier in the Atlantic Ocean; his rescue set off an international custody battle（争夺监护权） between relatives in Miami and Elian's father in Cuba. |
