The British issued the Balfour Declaration, a statement of support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”; it was made in a letter from Arthur James Balfour, the British foreign secretary.
1950
萧伯纳去世
英国现实主义戏剧家萧伯纳逝世享年94岁
萧伯纳(George Bernard Shaw,1856年7月26日-1950年11月2日),直译为乔治·伯纳德·肖,爱尔兰剧作家,1925年“因为作品具有理想主义和人道主义”而获诺贝尔文学奖,其喜剧作品《卖花女》(Pygmalion)因被 Alan Lerner 改编为音乐剧《窈窕淑女》(My Fair Lady),该音乐剧又被好莱坞改编为同名卖座电影而家喻户晓。
A computer science student named Robert Morris released the first computer worm onto the Internet; meant as an experiment, it brought some 6,000 computers (one-tenth of the Internet) to a halt.