Today in History: Thursday, August 16, 2012
歷史上的今天 2012年8月16
On Aug. 16, 1977, singer Elvis Presley died at Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tenn., at age 42.
1977年,8月16日,美國搖滾歌手“貓王”埃爾維斯·普雷斯利在田納西孟菲斯Graceland大廈逝世,享年42歲 。
1858 A telegraphed message from Britain's Queen Victoria to President James Buchanan was transmitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable.
1858年,英國女王維多利亞通過最近鋪設的跨太平洋電纜致電總統詹姆斯 。
1888 T.E. Lawrence, the British soldier who gained fame as "Lawrence of Arabia," was born in Tremadoc, Wales.
1888年,英國具有“阿拉伯的勞倫斯”榮譽之稱的T.E.Lawrence在威爾士Tremadoc出生 。
1913 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was born in Brest-Litovsk in present-day Belarus.
1913年,以色列總理Menachem Begin在今白俄羅斯出生 。
1948 Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth died at age 53.
1948年,棒球名人堂貝比魯斯去世,享年53歲 。
1954 Sports Illustrated was first published by Time Inc.
1954年,《體育畫報》首次由時代公司出版 。
1956 Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1956年,阿德萊·史蒂文森在芝加哥民主黨全國大會被提名為總統 。
1960 Britain granted independence to Cyprus.
1960年,塞浦路斯從英國獲得獨立, 。
1987 Thousands of people worldwide began a two-day celebration of the "harmonic convergence," which believers called the start of a new, purer age of humankind.
1987年,來自全世界成千上萬的對協波集合進行為期兩天的慶祝,信徒稱之為人類新的,純潔時代的開始 。
2000 Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated Vice President Al Gore for president.
2000年,在洛杉磯民主黨全國代表大會副總統艾爾·戈爾被提名總統 。
2002 Terrorist mastermind Abu Nidal was found shot to death in Baghdad, Iraq.
2002年,恐怖分子頭目阿布尼達爾在伊拉克首都巴格達被發現射死 。
2003 Idi Amin, the former dictator of Uganda, died in Saudi Arabia.
2003年,前烏干達獨裁者伊迪·阿明在沙特阿拉伯去世 。
2007 Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held for 3-1/2 years as an enemy combatant, was convicted in Miami of helping Islamic extremists and plotting overseas attacks. (He was sentenced to 17 years, four months in prison.)
2007年,一名替敵軍服務了三年半的美國公民Jose Padilla在邁哈密因協助伊斯蘭極端分子并密謀海外襲擊被定罪 。(他被判處監禁17年零4個月 。)
2008 Michael Phelps won the 100-meter butterfly by a hundredth of a second for his seventh gold medal of the Beijing Olympics, tying Mark Spitz's 1972 record.
2008年,邁克爾菲爾普斯以0.01秒的優勢贏得了100米蝶泳了冠軍,攮獲了他在北京奧運會第七枚金牌,平了馬克?施皮茨在1972年創下的記錄 。
2008 Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and actress Portia de Rossi were married at their Beverly Hills, Calif., home.
2008年,脫口秀主持人艾倫·德杰尼勒斯和女演員波西亞-德羅茜在加州比弗利山莊自家中結婚 。
2010 China eclipsed Japan as the world's second biggest economy after three decades of blistering growth.
2010年,經過30年快速的增長,中國超越日本成為世界第二大經濟體 。