Today in History: Monday, August 27, 2012
歷史上的今天,2012年8月27日,星期一
1883 The island volcano Krakatoa erupted and the resulting tidal waves claimed some 36,000 lives on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra.
1883年,喀拉喀托島火山爆發產生的浪潮在印度尼西亞爪哇和蘇門答臘島奪去了36,000人的生命 。
On Aug. 27, 1908, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, was born near Stonewall, Texas.
1908年,林登·貝恩斯·約翰遜,美國第36屆美國總在德克薩斯州斯通沃爾附近出生 。
1770 German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in Stuttgart.
1770年,德國哲學家威廉·弗里德里希·黑格在斯圖加特出生 。
1859 Edwin L. Drake drilled the first successful U.S. oil well near Titusville, Pa.
1859年,埃德溫·德雷克在泰特斯維爾附近成功鉆取美國第一個油田 。
1928 The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for the peaceful settlement of disputes.
1928年,凱洛格—白里安和平公約在巴黎簽署,宣布了戰爭的不合法性并為爭端提供和平解決方案 。
1945 American troops began landing in Japan following the surrender of the Japanese government in World War II.
1945年,在日本政府在第二次世界大戰投降后美軍開始登陸日本 。
1962 The United States launched the Mariner 2 space probe, which flew past Venus the following December.
1962年,美國發射水手2航天探測器并于當年12月飛過金星 。
1967 The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, was found dead from an overdose of sleeping pills.
1967年,披頭士樂隊經紀人Brian Epstein被發現死于過量服用安眠藥 。
1975 Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia's 3,000-year-old monarchy, died in Addis Ababa almost a year after being overthrown.
1975年,埃塞俄比亞3000年君主制的最后一位帝王海爾·塞拉西一世在被推翻后的大約一年死于亞的斯亞貝巴 。
1979 British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion; the Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility.
1979年,英國戰爭英雄路易斯·蒙巴頓勛爵在愛爾蘭海岸的一艘船爆炸案中身亡,愛爾蘭共和軍宣稱對此事件負責 。
2007 Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick pleaded guilty in Richmond, Va., to a federal dogfighting charge.
2007年,亞特蘭大獵鷹隊四分衛邁克爾·維克在弗吉尼亞州里士滿服從聯邦法院對其混戰共謀的指控 。
2008 Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
2008年,伊利諾斯州參議員巴拉克·奧巴馬在民主黨全國代表大會上提名為總統 。