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Today in History: Wednesday, December 19, 2012
歷史上的今天：2012年12月19日，星期三
On Dec. 19, 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives for perjury and obstruction of justice. (He was later acquitted by the Senate.)
1998年12月19日,總統(tǒng)比爾·克林頓因偽證并妨礙司法公正被眾議院彈劾。(后來(lái)他被參議院宣判無(wú)罪。)
1732 Benjamin Franklin began publishing "Poor Richard's Almanac."
1732年，本杰明·富蘭克林開(kāi)始發(fā)行他的“窮理查年鑒”
1776 Thomas Paine published his first "American Crisis" essay, writing: "These are the times that try men's souls."
1776年，托馬斯·潘恩發(fā)表了他的第一篇“美國(guó)危機(jī)”文章，他寫(xiě)道:“總有一些時(shí)刻考驗(yàn)人們的靈魂。”
1777 Gen. George Washington led his army of about 11,000 men to Valley Forge, Pa., to camp for the winter.
1777年，喬治·華盛頓將軍率領(lǐng)11，000軍隊(duì)來(lái)到賓夕法尼亞福吉谷過(guò)冬。
1843 Charles Dickens' Yuletide tale, "A Christmas Carol," was first published in Britain.
1843年，查爾斯·狄更斯的圣誕故事《圣誕頌歌》首次在英國(guó)出版。
1907 A coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pa., killed 239 workers.
1907年，賓夕法尼亞發(fā)生一起煤礦爆炸，239名工人遇難。
1946 War broke out in Indochina as troops under Ho Chi Minh launched widespread attacks against the French.
1946年，胡志明領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的軍隊(duì)對(duì)法國(guó)開(kāi)始大規(guī)模進(jìn)攻，印度支那半島戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)爆發(fā)。
1972 Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.
1972年，阿波羅17號(hào)落在在太平洋，結(jié)束了阿波羅載人登月計(jì)劃。
1974 Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as vice president, replacing Gerald R. Ford, who became president when Richard M. Nixon resigned.
1974年，納爾遜A.洛克菲勒取代杰拉爾德·福特宣誓就任副總統(tǒng)，當(dāng)理查德·尼克松辭職時(shí)杰拉爾德·福特當(dāng)選總統(tǒng)。
1984 Britain and China signed an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
1984年，英國(guó)和中國(guó)簽署協(xié)議于1997年將香港歸還中國(guó)。
1986 The Soviet Union announced it had freed dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile and pardoned his wife, Yelena Bonner.
1986年，蘇聯(lián)宣布已經(jīng)解除對(duì)不同政見(jiàn)者安德烈·薩哈羅夫國(guó)內(nèi)流放并赦免了他的妻子葉連娜·邦納。
1997 "Titanic," the second highest-grossing movie of all-time, opened in American theaters.
1997年，史上第二大票房電影《泰坦尼克號(hào)》在美國(guó)上映。
2000 The U.N. Security Council voted to impose broad sanctions on Afghanistan's Taliban rulers unless they closed terrorist training camps and surrendered U.S. embassy bombing suspect Osama bin Laden.
2000年，聯(lián)合國(guó)安全理事會(huì)投票決定對(duì)阿富汗塔利班統(tǒng)治者實(shí)施廣泛制裁，除非他們關(guān)閉恐怖分子訓(xùn)練營(yíng)并交出美國(guó)大使館爆炸案嫌疑人奧薩馬·本拉登。
2003 Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi agreed to halt his nation's drive to develop nuclear and chemical weapons.
2003年，利比亞領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人卡扎菲同意停止國(guó)家開(kāi)發(fā)核武器和化學(xué)武器。
2005 Afghanistan's first democratically elected parliament in more than three decades convened.
2005年，阿富汗召開(kāi)三十多年以來(lái)的首次民選議會(huì)。
