历史上的今天:2月17日-凯发k8官网

today's highlight in history:
on february 17th, 1801, the house of representatives broke an electoral（选举的） tie between thomas jefferson and aaron burr, electing jefferson president. burr became ¹ president.

on this date:
in 1817, a street in baltimore became the first to be lighted with gas from america's first gas company.

in 1865, columbia, south carolina, burned as the confederates ²（疏散，撤离） and union forces moved in. (it's not known which side set the blaze.)

in 1897, the ³（先驱，前锋） of the national pta, the national congress of mothers, was founded in washington.

in 1904, giacomo puccini's opera "madama butterfly" was poorly received at its world premiere（初次公演） at la scala.

in 1933, "newsweek" was first published.

in 1947, the voice of america began broadcasting to the ⁴ union.

in 1964, the ⁵ court ruled that congressional districts within each state had to be roughly equal in population.

in 1972, president nixon departed on his historic trip to china.

in 1988, ⁶ colonel（陆军中校） william higgins, an american officer serving with a united nations ⁷（休战） monitoring group, was kidnapped（诱拐，绑架） in southern lebanon (he was later ⁸ by his captors).

in 1992, ^{9 10} jeffrey dahmer was sentenced in milwaukee to life in prison (however, he was beaten to death in prison in november 1994).

ten years ago: former president reagan spent a second day in a los angeles courtroom, giving videotaped ¹¹（证据，证词） about the iran-contra affair for the trial of his former national security ¹², john poindexter.

five years ago: colin ferguson was convicted of six counts of murder in the december 1993 long island rail road shootings (he was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison).

one year ago: in a satellite-linked address to college campuses（校园，大学） across the country, president clinton made his case for shoring up social security and medicare. israeli security guards shot and killed three kurds who had forced their way into the israeli ¹³（领事馆） in berlin; the protesters were ¹⁴（发怒，激怒） by reports that israel aided in the arrest of kurdish rebel leader abdullah ocalan.