Today in History: Monday, August 20, 2012
歷史上的今天:2012年8月20日
On Aug. 20, 1998 Retaliating for deadly embassy bombings in East Africa, the United States launched cruise missile strikes against al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan and what was described as a chemical plant in Sudan.
1998年8月20日 。為報復東非大使館致命的爆炸慘案,美國發射巡航導彈打擊阿富汗基地組織訓練營以及據稱是蘇丹的一化工廠 。
1833 Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio.
1833年,美國第23屆美國總統本杰明·哈里森在俄亥俄州北本德出生 。
1914 German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War I.
1914年,在第一次世界大戰德國占領比利時布魯塞爾 。
1918 Britain opened an offensive on the Western front during World War I.
1918年,第一次世界大戰英國向西線發起進攻 。
1940 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force, saying, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
1940年,英國首相邱吉爾表彰英國皇家空軍稱“在人類戰爭史上,從來也沒有一次像這樣,以如此少的兵力,取得如此大的成功,保護如此多的眾生 。”
1953 The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb.
1953年,蘇聯公開承認已經測試了一枚氫彈 。
1955 Hundreds of people were killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria.
1955年,在摩洛哥和阿爾及利亞的反法暴亂中數百人遇害 。
1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure.
1964年,林登·約翰遜總統簽署了近10億美元的反貧困措施 。
1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization drive of Alexander Dubcek's regime.
1968年,蘇聯和其它華沙條約國入侵捷克斯洛伐克鎮壓了亞歷山大·杜布切克政權的“布拉格之春”自由化改革 。
1977 The United States launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature.
1977年,美國發射旅行者2號,這是一艘攜帶12英寸銅留聲機搭載著很多語言問候,音樂樣本以及自然聲音的無人駕駛宇宙飛船 。
1992 The Republican National Convention in Houston nominated President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle for a second term.
1992年,休斯頓共和黨全國代表大會提名總統喬治·布什和副總統丹奎爾連任 。
2006 Former Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who took the iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising picture during World War II, died at age 94.
2006年,二戰期間攜帶過標志性硫磺島升旗圖片的前美聯社攝影師喬·羅森塔爾去世,終年94歲 。
2009 Voting in Afghanistan's presidential election was marred by rampant ballot-box stuffing. (Hamid Karzai was declared the winner in November.)
2009年,阿富汗總統選舉投票受到猖獗投票箱填料的損壞 。(哈米德·卡爾扎伊在11月被宣布獲勝 。)
2009 The only man convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 returned home to Libya after his release from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds.
2009年,泛美航空103航班爆炸案唯一被定罪者受到同情,從蘇格蘭監獄釋放回到利比亞 。