Today in History: Sunday, September 16, 2012
歷史上的今天:2012年9月16日,周日
On Sept. 16, 1974 President Gerald R. Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War deserters and draft-evaders.
1974年9月16日,總統(tǒng)杰拉爾德·福特宣布了一項(xiàng)關(guān)于越南戰(zhàn)爭逃兵和逃避兵役者有條件的大赦計劃 。
1630 The Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.
1630年,馬薩諸塞州Shawmut村莊更名為波士頓 。
1638 France's King Louis XIV was born.
1638年,法國國王路易十四出生 。
1810 Mexico began a successful revolt against Spanish rule.
1810年,墨西哥反西班牙統(tǒng)治革命成功開始 。
1857 The song "Jingle Bells" by James Pierpont was copyrighted under its original title, "One Horse Open Sleigh."
1857年,由詹姆斯·皮蓬特創(chuàng)作的歌曲《鈴兒響叮當(dāng)》在其原始歌名"One Horse Open Sleigh"下享有版權(quán) 。
1893 Hundreds of thousands of settlers took part in a land run in Oklahoma's "Cherokee Strip."
1893年,成千上萬的移民在俄克拉荷馬的"切羅基地帶"參加了一個土地運(yùn)動 。
1908 General Motors was formed in Flint, Mich., by William Durant.
1908年,通用汽車由威廉·杜蘭特在佛林特,密歇根州創(chuàng)立 。
1919 The American Legion was incorporated by an act of Congress.
1919年,美國退伍軍人協(xié)會通過一項(xiàng)國會法案成立 。
1940 Rep. Samuel T. Rayburn, D-Texas, the longest-serving House speaker in history, was first elected to the post.
1940年,歷史上最長的眾議院議長塞繆爾·雷伯恩在德州首次當(dāng)選上位 。
1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the first peacetime military draft in U.S. History.
1940年,羅斯??偨y(tǒng)簽署了美國史上第一個和平時期軍事草案 。
1966 The Metropolitan Opera opened its new home at New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
1966年,紐約大都會歌劇院定家與紐約的林肯表演藝術(shù)中心 。
1972 "The Bob Newhart Show" premiered on CBS.
1972年,“鮑勃·紐哈特秀”在CBS首映 。
1982 A massacre of between 1,200 and 1,400 Palestinian men, women and children at the hands of Israeli-allied Christian Phalange militiamen began in west Beirut's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
1982,以色列聯(lián)合基督教Phalange民兵組織挾持1200至1400名巴勒斯坦男人、女人和孩子們并在西貝魯特開始拉和沙提拉難民營對其開始進(jìn)行屠殺 。
2002 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced that Iraq had unconditionally accepted the return of U.N. weapons inspectors.
2002年,聯(lián)合國秘書長科菲·安南宣布伊拉克無條件再次接受聯(lián)合國武器核查員 。
2004 Hurricane Ivan plowed into the Gulf Coast with 130 mph wind and a major storm surge; Ivan was blamed for at least 115 deaths, 43 in the United States.
2004年,颶風(fēng)"伊凡"伴隨著巨大海浪以每小時130英里的速度襲擊墨西哥灣沿岸,至少115人死亡,其中43名美國人 。
2008 The federal government announced an emergency $85 billion loan to rescue AIG, the world's largest insurance company.
2008年,聯(lián)邦政府宣布了一項(xiàng)價值850億美元的緊急貸款來拯救世界最大的保險公司美國國際集團(tuán) 。