历史上的今天:11月08日-凯发k8官网

today's highlight in history:
on november eighth, 1960, massachusetts（马萨诸塞州） senator john f. kennedy defeated ¹ president richard m. nixon for the ².

on this date:
in 1837, mount holyoke seminary, a college exclusively（排他地） for women, opened in south hadley, massachusetts.

in 1889, montana（蒙大拿州） became the 41st state.

in 1923, adolf hitler launched his first attempt at seizing power with a failed ³（妙计，政变） in munich, germany, the "beer-hall putsch."

in 1932, new york governor franklin d. roosevelt defeated ⁴ herbert hoover for the presidency.

in 1933, president roosevelt created the civil works administration, designed to create jobs for more than four million ⁵.

in 1942, operation "torch" began during world war two as us and british forces landed in french north africa.

in 1950, during the korean conflict, the first jet-plane battle took place as us air force ⁶ russell j. brown shot down a north korean mig-15.

in 1966, ronald reagan was elected governor of california.

in 1988, vice president george bush won the presidential election, defeating massachusetts governor michael dukakis.

in 1994, midterm elections（期中选举） resulted in republicans winning a majority in the senate while at the same time gaining control of the house for the first time in 40 years.

ten years ago: president bush ordered a new round of troop deployments in the persian ⁷, adding up to 150-thousand soldiers to the ⁸ force facing off against iraq.

five years ago: ⁹ general colin powell embraced the republican party, but said he would not run for president or any other political office in 1996 because it was "a calling that i do not yet hear."

one year ago: israeli and palestinian negotiators launched ¹⁰ talks, giving themselves an ambitious（热望的，有抱负的） 100-day deadline to craft the broad outlines of a peace agreement. former president bush was honored in germany for his role in the fall of the berlin wall ten years earlier. president clinton participated in a "virtual town hall meeting" on the internet, answering questions from pre-screened online users.