历史上的今天:11月11日-凯发k8官网

today's highlight in history:
on november eleventh, 1918, fighting in world war one came to an end with the signing of an ¹（休战书） between the allies and germany.

on this date:
in 1620, 41 pilgrims aboard the "mayflower," anchored off（停泊在……之外） massachusetts, signed a compact calling for a "body politick（从事竞选等政治活动）."

in 1831, former slave nat turner, who'd led a violent insurrection（叛乱，暴动）, was executed in jerusalem, virginia.

in 1889, washington became the 42nd state.

in 1921, president harding ² the tomb of the unknown soldier in arlington national ³.

in 1939, kate smith first sang irving berlin's "god bless america" on network radio.

in 1965, rhodesia（罗得西亚） proclaimed（宣布，公告） its independence from britain.

in 1966, "gemini 12" blasted off from ⁴ kennedy, florida, with astronauts james a. lovell and edwin "buzz" aldrin junior aboard.

in 1972, the us army turned over its base at long bihn to the south vietnamese army, ⁵ the end of direct us military involvement in the vietnam war.

in 1992, the church of england voted to ⁶（任命，命令） women as priests（神父）.

in 1993, a bronze statue honoring the more than eleven-thousand american women who'd served in the vietnam war was dedicated in washington dc.

ten years ago: stormie jones, the world's first heart-liver transplant ⁷（接受者）, died at a pittsburgh hospital at age 13.

five years ago: with a partial government shutdown ⁸, president clinton and republican congressional leaders clashed over medicare and ⁹（斗嘴） over who to include in compromise（妥协，折衷） budget talks.

one year ago: a car bomb ripped through（炸坏） a bogota commercial district, ¹⁰ at least eight people, but president andres pastrana ¹¹（挑战地，对抗地） signed ¹²（引渡逃犯） orders for three suspected drug traffickers. sixty-seven people were killed when an apartment building ¹⁴ in foggia, italy; an ¹⁵ blamed the ¹³ on cheap materials and slipshod（粗枝大叶的，潦草的） construction. argentine journalist jacobo timerman died in buenos aires at age 76.