Today in History: Wednesday, September 12, 2012
歷史上的今天:2012年9月12日,周三
On Sept. 12, 2001, President George W. Bush labeled the previous day's terrorist attacks "acts of war" and asked Congress for $20 billion to rebuild and recover.
2001年9月12日,美國總統(tǒng)喬治·布什宣布前一天的恐怖襲擊"戰(zhàn)爭行為",要求國會提供200億美元重建和恢復 。
1609 English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into the river that now bears his name.
1609年,英國探險家亨利·哈德遜駛入現(xiàn)在以他名字命名的河流 。
1880 Journalist and critic H.L. Mencken was born in Baltimore.
1880年,記者和評論家H.L.門肯在巴爾的摩出生 。
1938 In a speech in Nuremberg, Adolf Hitler demanded self-determination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.
1938年,在紐倫堡的一次演講中,阿道夫·希特勒在捷克斯洛伐克要求蘇臺德德意志民族自決 。
1943 German paratroopers rescued former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from the hotel where he was being held prisoner by his own government.
1943年,德國傘兵從被自己政府關押的賓館拯救出意大利前獨裁者墨索里尼 。
1944 U.S. Army troops entered Germany for the first time during World War II, near Trier.
1944年,第二次世界大戰(zhàn)期間,美國軍隊進入德國特里爾附近 。
1953 Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, R.I.
1953年,馬薩諸塞州參議員約翰·肯尼迪在紐波特與Lee Bouvier結婚 。
1954 "Lassie" made its TV debut on CBS.
1954年,"靈犬萊西"電視在哥倫比亞廣播公司首次亮相 。
1959 "Bonanza" premiered on NBC.
1959年,"Bonanza"首次在美國全國廣播公司首次公演 。
1974 Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed by Ethiopia's military after ruling for 58 years.
1974年,君王海爾·塞拉西一世在統(tǒng)治58年后被埃塞俄比亞軍隊廢除 。
1977 South African black student leader Steven Biko died while in police custody, triggering an international outcry.
1977年,南非黑人學生領袖史蒂芬肯特在警察拘留期間慘死,引發(fā)國際社會的譴責 。
2000 Dutch lawmakers gave same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children.
2000年,荷蘭立法者同意同性夫婦結婚以及收養(yǎng)孩子 。
2002 President George W. Bush told the United Nations to confront the "grave and gathering danger" of Saddam Hussein's Iraq or stand aside as the United States acted.
2002年,喬治·布什總統(tǒng)告訴聯(lián)合國要直面伊拉克薩達姆"嚴重和逐漸增長的危險"或避免干涉美國的行動 。
2003 Country musician Johnny Cash died at age 71.
2003年,鄉(xiāng)村音樂家約翰尼·卡什去世,享年71歲 。
2005 Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown resigned, three days after losing his onsite command of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
2005年,在未能現(xiàn)在指揮好卡特里娜颶風救援工作三天后,聯(lián)邦緊急措施署署長邁克爾·布朗辭職 。
2006 In a speech in his native Germany, Pope Benedict XVI quoted from an obscure medieval text that characterized some teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman," unleashing a torrent of rage across the Islamic world.
2006年,教皇本篤十六世在他家鄉(xiāng)德國的一次演講中,引用從一個默默無聞的中世紀文獻描繪伊斯蘭教的創(chuàng)始人是"邪惡和野蠻的",引發(fā)了整個伊斯蘭世界的強烈憤怒 。
2008 A commuter train engineer ran a red light while text messaging on his cell phone and struck a freight train head-on in Los Angeles, killing himself and 24 other people.
2008年,在洛杉磯,一名市郊火車司機因開車發(fā)短信闖紅,與一輛正面的貨運列車相撞,造成包括自己在內的25人死亡 。
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