2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August seventh, 1942, US forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied off

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Vocabulary: adorn : make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.（装饰）

rampart:an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes（壁垒）

bagpipe:a wind instrument; the p

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August fifth, 1962, actress Marilyn Monroe, 36, was found dead in her Los Angeles home;

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
Ten years ago, on August second, 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait, seizing control of the oil-rich emirate. President Bush condemned the incursion as an act of "naked agg

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August third, 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, on a voyage that took him to the

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 31st, 1556, St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus -- the Jesuit order of Ca

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On August first, 1946, President Truman signed the Fulbright Program into law, establishing the scholarsh

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 29th, 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NAS

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 30th, 1975, former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban D

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 27th, 1940, Bugs Bunny made his "official" debut in the Warner Brothers animated cartoo

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 28th, 1750, composer Johann Sebastian Bach died in Leipzig, Germany. On this date:
In 1540

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 25th, 1866, Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army, the first officer to hold the ran

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 26th, 1775, Benjamin Franklin became Postmaster-General. On this date:
In 1

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 23rd, 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died in Mount McGregor

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 21st, 1925, the so-called "Monkey Trial" ended in Dayton, Tennessee, with John T. S

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 22nd, 1942, gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard.

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 19th, 1848, a pioneer women's rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, New York. On this da

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 20th, 1969, "Apollo Eleven" astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Bu

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

The Stirling Moss has won the British Grand Prix at the Aintree track near Liverpool - the first time an Englishman has triumphed in the race. Another British driver, Mike Hawthorn, finished in si

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 18th, 1947, President Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act, which placed the speaker of

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 15th, 1975, three American astronauts blasted off aboard an "Apollo" spaceship hours af

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

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 plunge

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 13th, 1960, John F. Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination at his party's convent

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

The A group of Iraqi army officers have staged a coup in Iraq and overthrown the monarchy.

Baghdad Radio announced the Army has liberated the Iraqi people from domination by a corrupt group pu

2008-06-22 所属栏目:历史上的今天

Today's Highlight in History:
On July eleventh, 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Ha