Today in History: Friday, December 21, 2012
歷史上的今天:2012年12月21日,星期五
On Dec. 21, 1988, a bomb exploded aboard a Pam Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people, including 11 on the ground.
1988年12月21日,在蘇格蘭洛克比上空,一架波音747上一枚炸彈發生爆炸,造成270人死亡,包括在陸地上死亡的11人。
1620 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower went ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Mass.
1620年,朝圣者乘坐“五月花”號船首次登陸如今的馬薩諸塞普利茅斯。
1879 Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was born Josef Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia.
1879年,蘇聯獨裁者約瑟夫·斯大林在格魯吉亞哥里城出生。
1898 Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium.
1898年,科學家皮埃爾和瑪麗·居里發現了放射性元素鐳。
1913 The first crossword puzzle was published, in the New York World.
1913年,第一個縱橫拼字游戲在紐約世界發表。
1937 The Disney animated feature film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" had its world premiere in Los Angeles.
1937年,迪斯尼動畫電影《白雪公主和七個小矮人》在洛杉磯全球首映。
1948 Ireland became an independent republic.
1948年,愛爾蘭成為獨立共和國。
1958 Charles de Gaulle was elected the first president of France's Fifth Republic.
1958年,戴高樂擔任法蘭西第五共和國的首任總統。
1968 Apollo 8 was launched on a mission to orbit the moon.
1968年,阿波羅8號發射,進行環月飛行任務。
1970 Elvis Presley met with President Richard M. Nixon in the Oval Office to discuss fighting drugs.
1970年,貓王在美國總統辦公室會見了理查德·尼克松總統,探討打擊毒品問題。
1971 The U.N. Security Council chose Kurt Waldheim to succeed U Thant as secretary-general.
1971年,聯合國安理會選擇庫爾特·瓦爾德海姆接任吳丹擔任聯合國秘書長。
1978 Police in Des Plaines, Ill., arrested John W. Gacy Jr. and began unearthing the remains of 33 men and boys he was later convicted of murdering.
1978年,德斯普蘭斯逮捕了 John W. Gacy Jr,并挖掘出33個男人和男孩的尸體,隨后他被判謀殺罪。
1991 Eleven of the 12 former Soviet republics proclaimed the birth of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1991年,12個前蘇聯加盟共和國中的11個宣部獨聯體誕生。
1995 The city of Bethlehem passed from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1995年,以色列將伯利恒市交與巴勒斯坦管控。
1996 After two years of denials, House Speaker Newt Gingrich admitted violating House ethics rules.
1996年,經過兩年的否認,眾議院議長紐特·金里奇承認違反眾議院道德準則。