Today in History: Tuesday, September 18, 2012
歷史上的今天:2012年9月18日,周二
On Sept. 18, 1850 Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed slaveowners to reclaim slaves who had escaped to other states.
1850年9月18日,國會通過了《逃亡奴隸法案》,該法案允許奴隸主收回逃亡到其他國家的奴隸 。
1759 The French surrendered Quebec to the British.
1759年,法國將魁北克交出給英國 。
1793 President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.
1793年,喬治·華盛頓總統奠定了在美國國會的基礎 。
1810 Chile declared its independence from Spain.
1810年,智利宣布脫離西班牙獨立 。
1851 The first edition of The New York Times was published.
1851年,第一版《紐約時報》出版 。
1961 United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia.
1961年,聯合國秘書長達格哈馬舍爾德在北羅得西亞的一次飛機事故中遇難 。
1905 Actress Greta Garbo was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
1905年,女演員葛麗泰·嘉寶在瑞典斯德哥爾摩出生 。
1927 The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) debuted with a network of 16 radio stations.
1927年,哥倫比亞唱片廣播系統(后來CBS)推出16無線站廣播網 。
1947 The National Security Act, which unified the Army, Navy and newly formed Air Force into a national military establishment, went into effect.
1947年,將國家陸軍、海軍及新空軍統一成全國軍隊編制的《國家安全法案》生效 。
1970 Rock musician Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose at age 27.
1970年,搖滾音樂家吉米·亨德里克斯死于服藥過量,享年27歲 。
1975 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
1975年,在被共生解放軍綁架19個月之后,報紙的女繼承人帕特里夏·斯特在舊金山被美國聯邦調查局抓獲 。
1997 Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse agreed to merge to create the world's biggest accounting firm.
1997年,Coopers & Lybrand 和Price Waterhouse同意合并創造世界上最大的會計公司 。
2009 Tens of thousands of protesters rallied in defiance of Iran's Islamic leadership, clashing with police and confronting state-run anti-Israel rallies.
2009年,成千上萬的抗議者無視伊朗伊斯蘭的領導領導聚集起來,與警察發生了沖突并對抗國家支持的反以色列集會 。