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Today in History: Friday, August 10, 2012
歷史上的今天：2012年8月10日
On Aug. 10, 1977, "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz was arrested in Yonkers, N.Y., accused of six slayings and seven woundings in a year-long spree of random shootings of mostly young couples parked in cars in New York City. (Berkowitz is serving six consecutive sentences of 25 years to life in prison.)
1977年8月10日,“薩姆之子”連環殺手大衛•伯考維茨在紐約揚克斯被捕，在一年的時間里他在紐約市任意瘋狂射殺停在車內的夫婦，造成過6人死亡，7人受傷。(伯考維茨被判處監禁連續服役25年。)
1821 Missouri became the 24th state.
1821年，密蘇里成為美國第24州。
1846 Congress chartered the Smithsonian Institution, named after English scientist James Smithson, whose bequest of $500,000 made it possible.
1846年，國會特許以英國科學家詹姆斯•史密森名字命名史特森協會，其500,000美元的遺產讓這成為了可能。
1874 Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, was born in West Branch, Iowa.
1874年，美國第31屆美國總統赫伯特•克拉克•胡佛在愛荷華州西布蘭奇出生。
1885 America's first commercially operated electric streetcar began operation in Baltimore.
1885年，美國第一個商業化運作電力有軌電車在巴爾的摩開始運營。
1921 Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello.
1921年富蘭克林•羅斯福在坎波貝洛加拿大島的夏季住所患上小兒麻痹癥。
1944 American forces overcame Japanese resistance on Guam during World War II.
1944年，美國軍隊在二戰期間戰勝日本關島抵抗力量。
1949 The National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense.
1949年，國家軍事機構改名為國防部。
1962 Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man made his debut in issue 15 of "Amazing Fantasy."
1962年，馬弗爾推出的漫畫英雄蜘蛛俠第15版“神奇的幻想”首次亮相。
1969 Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson's cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were slain.
1969年，雷諾和羅斯瑪麗在洛杉磯家中被殺人集團曼森的成員殺害，前一天演員莎朗•泰特和其他四人也被殺害。
1988 President Ronald Reagan signed a measure providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans interred by the U.S. government during World War II.
1988年,羅納德•里根總統向在二戰期間被美國政府埋葬的日裔美國人提供20,000補償。
1993 Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female Supreme Court justice.
1993年，Ruth Bader Ginsburg作為第二位女性宣誓就任最高法院大法官。
2006 British authorities announced they had thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up 10 aircraft heading to the United States.
2006年，英國當局宣布他們已經挫敗了恐怖分子企圖同時炸毀10架前往美國飛機的陰謀。
2008 American swimmer Michael Phelps won the first of a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics by smashing his own world record in the 400-meter individual medley.
2008年，美國游泳選手邁克爾•菲爾普斯在北京奧運會400米個人混合泳中打破了自己的世界紀錄，史無前例獲得8枚金牌。
