图片人物：Jefferson Davis



Today's Highlight in History:

On December sixth, 1889, Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, died in New Orleans.

On this date:

In 1790, Congress moved from New York to Philadelphia.



In 1884, Army engineers completed construction of the Washington Monument.



In 1923, a presidential address was broadcast on radio for the first time as President Coolidge spoke to a joint session of Congress.



In 1939, the Cole Porter musical comedy "Du Barry Was a Lady" opened on Broadway.



In 1947, Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated by President Truman.



In 1957, America's first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.



In 1957, AFL-CIO members voted to expel the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. (The Teamsters were readmitted in 1987.)



In 1969, a concert by The Rolling Stones at the Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California, was marred by the deaths of four people, including one who was stabbed by a Hell's Angel.



In 1973, House minority leader Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew.



In 1988, rock-and-roll pioneer Roy Orbison died near Nashville, Tennessee, at age 52.



Ten years ago: Fourteen women were shot to death at at the University of Montreal's school of engineering by a man who then took his own life. Egon Krenz resigned as leader of East Germany.



Five years ago: Former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell pleaded guilty to defrauding his former law partners and clients of nearly $400,000. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen announced his resignation. Orange County, California, filed for bankruptcy protection due to investment losses of about two billion dollars.



One year ago: In Venezuela, former Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez, who staged a bloody coup attempt against the government six years earlier, was elected president. Endeavour's astronauts connected the first two building blocks of the international space station in the shuttle cargo bay.



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"People who never get carried away should be."



-- Malcolm S. Forbes, American publisher (1919-1990).


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