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Today in History: Tuesday, December 18, 2012
歷史上的今天：2012年12月18日，星期二
On Dec. 18, 1865, slavery ended in the United States as the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was declared in effect.
1865年12月18號，美國憲法第十三條修正案生效，標(biāo)志著奴隸制度宣布結(jié)束。
1787 New Jersey became the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1787年，新澤西州成為批準(zhǔn)美國憲法的第三個州。
1886 Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb was born in Narrows, Ga.
1886年，棒球名人堂泰科布在Narrows, Ga出生。
1892 Peter Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker Suite" premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1892年，彼得·柴可夫斯基的《胡桃夾子組曲》在俄羅斯圣彼得堡首映。
1915President Woodrow Wilson, widowed the year before, married Edith Bolling Galt.
1915年，伍德羅·威爾遜總統(tǒng)喪偶一年后迎娶伊迪絲·寶琳·高爾特。
1944 The Supreme Court upheld the wartime relocation of Japanese-Americans.
1944年，最高法院支持戰(zhàn)時搬遷的日裔美國人。
1957 The first nuclear facility in the United States to generate electricity, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, went online.
1957年，美國第一座核電站--西平坡特原子能發(fā)電站--在在賓夕法尼亞州運(yùn)營發(fā)電。
1958 The world's first communications satellite was launched by the United States aboard an Atlas rocket.
1958年，世界上第一個通信衛(wèi)星由美國宇宙神火箭成功發(fā)射。
1969 Britain's Parliament abolished the death penalty for murder.
1969年，英國議會廢除對謀殺罪判處死刑。
1972 The United States began the heaviest bombing of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
1972年，越戰(zhàn)期間，美國開始對北越進(jìn)行轟炸。
1987 Ivan F. Boesky was sentenced to three years in prison for plotting Wall Street's biggest insider-trading scandal.
1987年，伊凡·博被因策劃華爾街最大的內(nèi)幕交易丑聞判處三年監(jiān)禁。
2003 A judge in Seattle sentenced confessed Green River killer Gary Ridgeway to 48 consecutive life terms.
2003年，西雅圖的一位法官判處認(rèn)罪的綠河區(qū)殺手加里·里奇韋48年監(jiān)禁。
2003 A jury in Chesapeake, Va., convicted teenager Lee Boyd Malvo of two counts of murder in the Washington-area sniper shootings. (He was later sentenced to life in prison without parole.)
2003年，青年 Lee Boyd Malvo因在華盛頓狙擊手槍擊事件中犯有兩項(xiàng)謀殺罪被弗吉尼亞州切薩皮克一陪審團(tuán)定罪。(他后來被判處終身監(jiān)禁，并且不能假釋。)
2008 A U.N. court in Tanzania convicted former Rwandan army Col. Theoneste Bagosora of genocide and crimes against humanity for masterminding the killings of more than half a million people in a 100-day slaughter in 1994.
2008年，在坦桑尼亞聯(lián)合國法庭上，前盧旺達(dá)軍隊(duì)上校Bagosora Theoneste被判反人類和種族滅絕罪，因其在1994年的100天內(nèi)策劃殺戮了50多萬人。
2009 Reality TV stars Jon and Kate Gosselin, parents of eight children, divorced.
2009年，八個孩子的父母，電視真人秀明星喬恩和凱特戈斯林離婚。
