日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On August 18th, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed the right of all American women to vote. On this date: In 1227, the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: One year ago, on August 17th, 1999, more than 17,000 people were killed when a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Turkey. On this date: In 1807, Robert Fulton's North River Steam Boat began heading up New York's Hudson Riv... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On August 16th, 1977, Elvis Presley died at Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 42. On this date: In 1777, American forces won the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington, Vermont. In 1812, Detroit fell to Br... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: August 15th, 1945, was proclaimed V-J Day by the Allies, a day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally. On this date: In 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the island of Corsica. In 1935, humorist Will Rogers... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On August 14th, 1900, international forces, including US Marines, entered Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreign influence. On this date: In 1848, the Oregon Territory was e... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On August 12th, 1960, the first balloon satellite -- the Echo One -- was launched by the United States from Cape Canaveral. On this date: In 1851, Isaac Singer was granted a patent on his sewing machine. In 1867, Presid... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On August eleventh, 1909, the S-O-S distress signal was first used by an American ship, the Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. On this date: In 1860, the nation's first successful silver mill began operation n... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On August tenth, 1846, Congress chartered the Smithsonian Institution, named after English scientist James Smithson, whose bequest of half a million dollars had made it possible. On this date: In 1809, Ecuador struck it... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On August eighth, 1974, President Nixon announced he would resign following new damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal. On this date: In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena to spend the remainder of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On August seventh, 1942, US forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War Two. On this date: In 1782, George Washington created the Order of the Purp... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On August fifth, 1962, actress Marilyn Monroe , 36, was found dead in her Los Angeles home; her death was ruled a probable suicide from an overdose of sleeping pills. On this date: In 1861, the federal government levied... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On August third, 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, on a voyage that took him to the present-day Americas. On this date: In 1914, Germany declared war on France. In 1923, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 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 aggression. (The Iraqis were later driven out in Operation D... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On August first, 1946, President Truman signed the Fulbright Program into law, establishing the scholarships named for Senator J. William Fulbright. On this date: In 1790, the first United States census was completed, s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July 31st, 1556, St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus -- the Jesuit order of Catholic priests and brothers -- died in Rome. On this date: In 1498, during his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 On July 30th, 1975, former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit -- although presumed dead, his remains have never been found. On this date: In 1729, the city of Baltimore was founded. In 1792, the French national ant... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July 29th, 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NASA. On this date: In 1588, the English soundly defeated the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines. In 1890, ar... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July 28th, 1750, composer Johann Sebastian Bach died in Leipzig, Germany. On this date: In 1540, King Henry the Eighth's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, was executed, the same day Henry married his fifth wife, Cathe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July 27th, 1940, Bugs Bunny made his official debut in the Warner Brothers animated cartoon A Wild Hare. On this date: In 1789, Congress established the Department of Foreign Affairs, the forerunner of the Department... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-11-17 Today's Highlight in History: On July 26th, 1775, Benjamin Franklin became Postmaster-General. On this date: In 1788, New York became the eleventh state to ratify the US Constitution. In 1908, US Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte issued an order... 阅读全文>>