Today in History: Monday, August 06, 2012
歷史上的今天,2012年8月6號。
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, that instantly killed an estimated 66,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.
1945年8月6日,美國向日本廣島投下一枚原子彈,據(jù)估計當場炸死約66,000人,這是人類戰(zhàn)爭中首次使用核武器。
1825 Upper Peru became the autonomous republic of Bolivia.
1825上秘魯成立玻利維亞自治共和國。
1890 The electric chair was used for the first time, to execute a convicted murderer at Auburn State Prison in New York.
1890年,在紐約奧本監(jiān)獄首次使用電椅處決一名謀殺犯。
1890 Hall of fame pitcher Cy Young made his major league debut with the Cleveland Spiders of the National League.
1890年名人堂棒球投手Cy Young首次亮相國家聯(lián)盟Cleveland Spiders聯(lián)賽。
1914 Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia, and Serbia declared war against Germany at the outbreak of World War I.
1914年第一次世界大戰(zhàn)爆發(fā),奧匈帝國對俄宣戰(zhàn),塞爾維亞對德宣戰(zhàn)。
1962 Jamaica became an independent dominion within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1962年牙買加宣告獨立,成為英聯(lián)邦國家。
1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.
1965年林登•約翰遜總統(tǒng)簽署《選舉權法案》。
1978 Pope Paul VI died at age 80.
1978年教皇保羅六世去世,享年80歲。
2007 The Crandall Canyon Mine in central Utah collapsed, trapping six coal miners. (All six miners died, along with three rescuers.)
2007年,在猶他州中部Crandall Canyon礦井坍塌,六名煤礦工人被困。(六名礦工全部遇難,還包括三名救援人員。)
2008 The government declared that Army scientist Bruce Ivins was solely responsible for the anthrax attacks that killed five in 2001. (Ivins had committed suicide on July 29.)
2008年,政府宣布,軍方科學家布魯斯艾文斯對2001年遭成五人死亡的炭疽菌襲擊事件負全部責任。(埃文斯于7月29日自殺)。
2008 A U.S. military jury convicted Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, of supporting terrorism in the first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay.
2008年,在關塔那摩灣第一次戰(zhàn)爭罪審判上,美國軍事陪審團判定本拉登的前任司機薩利姆•哈姆丹因支持恐怖主義有罪。
2009 Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice by a Senate vote of 68-31.
2009年,索尼婭•索托馬約爾經(jīng)參議院表決以68 – 31當選第一位拉丁裔最高法院大法官。
2011 Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter in Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the elite Navy commando unit that had slain Osama bin Laden; seven Afghan commandos also died.
2011年,在阿富汗叛軍擊落了一架美國軍用直升機造成30名美國人死亡,其中大部分是曾執(zhí)行過消滅本拉登的海豹突擊隊的精英,另外7名阿富汗突擊隊也犧牲了。
2011 Violence erupted in London amid anger over the fatal police shooting of a 29-year-old father of four; rioting and looting spread to other parts of the city and other English cities over the next several days, leaving five dead.
2011年,因警方開槍射殺一名29歲的男子(4個孩子的父親)引發(fā)人們強烈憤怒造成倫敦暴亂。在未來的幾天里,騷亂和搶劫迅速擴散到城市的其它地區(qū)和英國其它城市,造成5人死亡。