Today in History: Sunday, August 12, 2012
歷史上的今天:2012年8月12日
On Aug. 12, 1985, a crippled Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 on a domestic flight crashed into a mountain, killing 520 people in the world's worst single-aircraft accident.
1985年8月12日,日本航空公司波音747飛機在國內航班因失靈撞山墜毀,造成520人死亡,這是世界上最嚴重的單起飛機事故 。
1851 Isaac Singer was granted a patent on his sewing machine.
1851年,Isaac Singer的縫紉機被授予專利 。
1880 Baseball Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson was born in Factoryville, Pa.
1880年,棒球名人堂克里斯蒂•馬修森出生在法克特里維爾出生 。
1898 The peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
1898年,美西簽署和平停戰協議 。
1898 Hawaii was formally annexed to the United States.
1898年,美國正式吞并夏威夷 。
1944 Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed when an explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England during World War II.
1944年,二戰期間一架裝有炸藥的海軍飛機轟炸英國,約瑟夫和羅斯的長子約瑟夫·肯尼迪遇難 。
1953 The Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.
1953年,蘇聯對其第一顆氫彈進行秘密測試 。
1960 The first balloon satellite, Echo 1, was launched by the United States from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
1960年第一個氣球衛星回聲一號由美國在卡納維爾角發射 。
1966 John Lennon apologized at a news conference in Chicago for saying "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus."
1966年,約翰·列儂在芝加哥的一場新聞發布會上對自己的言論“披頭士是比耶穌更有名”道歉 。
1977 The space shuttle Enterprise passed its first solo flight test by taking off atop a Boeing 747, separating and then touching down in California's Mojave Desert.
1977年,航天飛機公司通過了首次單獨飛行測試,在一架波音747上起飛,分離,然后著陸在加利福尼亞的莫哈韋沙漠 。
1981 IBM introduced its first personal computer, the model 5150.
1981年,IBM推出它的第一臺個人電腦,型號5150 。
1998 Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion as restitution to Holocaust survivors to settle claims for their assets.
1998年,瑞士銀行同意支付12.5億美元對大屠殺幸存者補償以解決財產索賠 。
2000 The Russian nuclear submarine Kursk and its 118-man crew were lost during naval exercises in the Barents Sea.
2000年,俄羅斯核潛艇Kursk和118名船員在巴倫支海軍事演習時神秘失蹤 。
2004 New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey announced his resignation and proclaimed himself "a gay American."
2004年,新澤西州州長詹姆斯·麥格瑞維宣布辭職,聲明自己是“美國同性戀者” 。
2004 The California Supreme Court voided the nearly 4,000 same-sex marriages sanctioned in San Francisco earlier in the year.
2004年,加州最高法院駁回了今年早些時候舊金山批準的近4000對同性婚姻 。
2008 Russia halted its devastating five-day assault on Georgia that left homes in smoldering ruins and uprooted 100,000 people.
2008年,俄羅斯結束了對格魯吉亞為期五天的毀滅性打擊,格魯吉亞家園變成悶燒的廢墟,100,000人流離失所 。