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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 ongoing1 conflict.
On this date:
In 1530, Cardinal红衣主教 Thomas Wolsey, onetime adviser3 to England's King Henry the Eighth, died.
In 1890, the Imperial Diet, forerunner先驱 of Japan's current national legislature, opened its first session, four days after its members were summoned by Emperor Meiji.
In 1924, Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels before he could complete his opera "Turandot." (It was finished by Franco Alfano.)
In 1929, Navy Lieutenant中尉,副官 Commander Richard E. Byrd radioed that he'd made the first airplane flight over the South Pole.
In 1947, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the partitioning划分 of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
In 1961, "Enos" the chimp6 was launched from Cape7 Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas Five spacecraft, which orbited earth twice before returning.
In 1963, President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination8 of President Kennedy.
In 1967, Secretary of Defense9 Robert S. McNamara announced he was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank.
In 1981, actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, California, at age 43.
In 1986, actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa爱荷华州, at age 82.
Ten years ago: In response to a growing pro-democracy movement in Czechoslovakia捷克, the Communist-run Parliament ended the party's 40-year monopoly垄断,专利 on power.
Five years ago: The House passed the revised General Agreement on Tariffs10 and Trade by a vote of 288-to-146. Fighter jets attacked the capital of Chechnya and its airport hours after Russian President Boris Yeltsin demanded the breakaway republic end its civil war.
One year ago: Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected legalizing公认,合法化 heroin11 and other narcotics麻醉毒品,麻醉剂.
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cardinal
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n.(天主教的)红衣主教;adj.首要的,基本的 | |
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adviser
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n.劝告者,顾问 | |
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forerunner
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n.前身,先驱(者),预兆,祖先 | |
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lieutenant
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n.陆军中尉,海军上尉;代理官员,副职官员 | |
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chimp
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cape
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n.海角,岬;披肩,短披风 | |
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assassination
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n.暗杀;暗杀事件 | |
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n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩 | |
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关税制度; 关税( tariff的名词复数 ); 关税表; (旅馆或饭店等的)收费表; 量刑标准 | |
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heroin
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n.海洛因 | |
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