Today in History: Tuesday, December 11, 2012
歷史上的今天:2012年12月11日,周二
On Dec. 11, 1961, A U.S. aircraft carrier carrying Army helicopters arrived in Saigon - the first direct American military support for South Vietnam's battle against Communist guerrillas.
1961年12月11日,美國航母攜帶軍隊直升機抵達西貢——這是幫助南越對抗共產主義游擊隊戰爭的第一次直接軍事支持。
1816Indiana became the 19th state.
1816年,印第安納成為美國第19個州。
1936Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.
1936年,英國國王愛德華八世為了迎娶美國離婚者辛普森而退位。
1941Germany and Italy declared war on the United States, which responded in kind.
1941年,德國和意大利對美國宣戰,美國以同樣的方式回敬。
1946UNICEF (the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) was established.
1946年,聯合國兒童基金會(聯合國國際兒童應急基金)成立。
1972Man landed on the moon for the last time during the Apollo 17 mission.
1972年,阿波羅執行第17號任務,這是人類最后一次登陸月球。
1981The U.N. Security Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru to be its fifth secretary-general.
1981年,聯合國安理會選擇秘魯的哈維爾·佩雷斯·德奎利亞爾擔任第五任聯合國秘書長。
1994Russian troops rolled into breakaway republic of Chechnya in a failed bid to restore Moscow's control over the region.
1994年,俄羅斯軍隊大批進入分裂的車臣共和國,但未能恢復莫斯科在該地區的控制。
1997More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to take steps to control greenhouse gas emissions.
1997年, 150多個國家同意在日本京都,召開全球變暖會議,采取措施控制溫室氣體的排放。
1998The House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton.
1998年,眾議院司法委員會批準了反對比爾·克林頓的三個彈劾條款。
2000Shortstop Alex Rodriguez agreed to a $252 million 10-year deal with the Texas Rangers, the most lucrative sports contract in history at the time.
2000年,游擊手亞歷克斯·羅德里格斯同意一項以2.52億美元與德州游騎兵隊簽署10年期協議,這是當時史上最昂貴的體育合同。
2002A congressional report found that intelligence agencies before Sept. 11, 2001, were poorly organized, poorly equipped and slow to pursue clues that might have prevented that day's terrorist attacks.
2002年,國會一份報告發現在2001年9月11日前情報機構組織缺乏,裝備薄弱并且追蹤線索進程緩慢,本可能阻止這一天的恐怖襲擊。
2008Bernard Madoff was arrested, accused of running a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. (He later pleaded guilty and is serving 150 years in prison.)
2008年,伯納德·馬多夫因運營一個價值數十億美元的龐氏騙局被捕。(他后來認罪,被判150年監禁。)
2009Tiger Woods announced on his website that he was taking an indefinite leave from golf to try to save his marriage to Elin Nordegren. (The couple divorced in August 2010.)
2009年,老虎伍茲在其網站上公布,他將永遠告別離開高爾夫試圖挽救他和艾琳的婚姻。(這對夫婦在2010年8月離婚。)