Today's Highlight in History:
On February first, 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest静坐抗议 at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, where they'd been refused service.

On this date:
In 1861, Texas voted to secede退出，脱离 from the Union.

In 1893, inventor Thomas A. Edison completed work on the world's first motion picture电影 studio, his "Black Maria囚车," in West Orange, New Jersey².

In 1896, Puccini's opera "La Boheme" premiered初次公演 in Turin.

In 1920, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police came into existence成立，开始存在.

In 1943, one of America's most highly decorated military units of World War Two, the 442d Regimental Combat Team, made up almost entirely⁴ of Japanese-Americans, was authorized⁵.

In 1946, Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen to be the first secretary-general of the United Nations.

In 1968, during the Vietnam War, Saigon's police chief (Nguyen Ngoc Loan) executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head in a scene captured in a famous news photograph.

In 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini received a tumultuous吵闹的，骚乱的 welcome in Tehran as he ended nearly 15 years of exile.

In 1979, newspaper heiress女继承人 Patricia Hearst, whose prison sentence for bank robbery had been commuted⁶减刑，交换 by President Jimmy Carter, left a federal prison near San Francisco.

In 1991, 35 people were killed when a USAir jetliner crashed atop a commuter⁷ plane at Los Angeles International Airport.

Ten years ago: East Germany's Communist premier³, Hans Modrow, appealed for negotiations⁹ with West Germany to forge a "united fatherland祖国."

Five years ago: The Federal Reserve boosted interest rates by one-half of a percent, the seventh rate hike上升，远足 in a year. House Republicans pushed through a bill restricting the federal government's ability to impose强加，征税 unfunded mandates命令，授权 on states.

One year ago: With the promise of huge federal surpluses, President Clinton proposed a $1.77 trillion budget for fiscal¹¹国库的，会计的 2000. Former White House intern⁸ Monica Lewinsky gave a deposition¹² that was videotaped for senators weighing impeachment弹劾，控告 charges against President Clinton.