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Today in History: Sunday, December 16, 2012
歷史上的今天：2012年12月16日，星期天
On Dec. 16, 1770, composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany.
1770年12月16日，作曲家貝多芬在德國波恩出生。
1653 Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1653年，奧利弗·克倫威爾成為英格蘭、蘇格蘭和愛爾蘭的攝政者。
1773 The Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea overboard to protest tea taxes.
1773年，美國殖民者登上一艘英國船艦將300多箱茶葉傾倒出船抗議征收茶稅，波士頓傾茶事件發生。
1809 Napoleon Bonaparte was divorced from the Empress Josephine by an act of the French Senate.
1809年，拿破侖·波拿巴因法國參議院法案脫離女皇約瑟芬。
1811 The first of the powerful New Madrid earthquakes, with an estimated magnitude of 7.7, struck the central Mississippi Valley.
1811年，新馬德里最大地震襲擊了中央密西西比山谷，震級估計為7.7級。
1916 Gregory Rasputin, the monk who had wielded powerful influence over the Russian court, was murdered by a group of noblemen.
1916年，向俄羅斯法院施加巨大影響力的僧侶Gregory Rasputin被一群貴族謀殺。
1917 Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead, England.
1917年，科幻作家 Arthur C. Clarke在英格蘭出生。
1944 The Battle of the Bulge during World War II began as German forces launched a surprise counterattack against Allied forces in Belgium.
1944年，二戰期間德軍在比利時突然反擊盟軍，坦克大戰開始。
1985 Reputed organized-crime chief Paul Castellano was shot to death outside a New York City restaurant.
1985年，著名犯罪集團首領Paul Castellano在紐約餐館外遇刺身亡。
1990 Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected president of Haiti in the country's first democratic elections.
1990年，海地第一次民主選舉中Jean-Bertrand Aristide當選總統。
1991 The U.N. General Assembly rescinded its 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism.
1991年，聯合國大會決議將撤銷將猶太復國主義列為種族歧視的1975決議。
1998 President Bill Clinton ordered a sustained series of airstrikes against Iraq by American and British forces in response to Saddam Hussein's continued defiance of U.N. weapons inspectors.
1998年，比爾·克林頓總統下令由美國和英國軍隊對伊拉克持續系列空襲，以回應薩達姆·侯賽因繼續無視聯合國武器核查人員。
2000 President-elect George W. Bush selected Colin Powell to become the first African-American secretary of state.
2000年，當選的美國總統喬治W布什選定科林·鮑威爾成為第一位非裔美國國務卿。
2009 Iran test-fired a missile capable of hitting Israel and parts of Europe.
2009年，伊朗試射了一枚能打到以色列和歐洲部分地區的導彈。
2010 Larry King concluded his CNN talk show after 25 years.
2010年，Larry King結束了25年的CNN脫口秀生涯。
