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费城.

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联席会议 of Congress.

In 1939, the Cole Porter musical comedy歌舞喜剧 "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美国劳工联合会-CIO美国产业工会联合会 members voted to expel开除 the International Brotherhood of Teamsters国际卡车司机协会. (The Teamsters were readmitted in 1987.)

In 1969, a concert by The Rolling Stones at the Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California, was marred损毁，糟蹋 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欺骗 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委内瑞拉, former Lieutenant Colonel中校 Hugo Chavez, who staged a bloody coup政变 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.