历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-11-17
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November 17th, 1973，an embattled President Richard Nixon defends himself during the Watergate scandal. He tells the Associated Press managing editors’ meeting in Orlando, Florida. “People have got to know, whether or not their president’s a crook1. Well I am not a crook. I’ve earned everything I’ve got.
3. England flourishes on the world stage” But Nixon resigns the following year when the Watergate scandal forces him from office.
1558, Elizabeth I begins the four and a half decade
reign2 as Queen of England,
ascending3 the throne after her half-sister Queen Mary dies. Under what’s known as the Elizabethan Age, England flourishes on the world stage, from military might to exploration and trade to the works of William Shakespeare.
1869, in Egypt, the Suez Canal opens, a vital waterway connecting the
Mediterranean4 and Red Seas.
1800, the US Congress holds its first session in Washington D.C. in the
partially5 completed Capitol Building.
1917,
sculptor6 Auguste Rodin, whose best-known works include The Thinker and The Kiss, dies in France. He was 77 years old.
And 1942, “Whether I like it or not, I actually end the movies I’ve made, for better for worse; however, people understand them and who I am, that’s all I really can be.” Movie director Martin Scorsese is born in New York City. Among his films, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Good Fellas, Gangs of New York, and The Departed . Today in history. November 17th. Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.
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