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Today in History: Saturday, December 22, 2012
歷史上的今天：2012年12月22日，周六
On Dec. 22, 1989, Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, the last of Eastern Europe's hard-line Communist rulers, was toppled from power in a popular uprising.
1989年12月22日，東歐最后的強硬共產主義統治者羅馬尼亞總統尼古拉·齊奧塞斯庫在大范圍起義中被推翻了。
1858 Opera composer Giacomo Puccini was born in Lucca, Italy.
1858年，歌劇作曲家普契尼在意大利盧卡出生。
1864 During the Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman sent a message to President Abraham Lincoln from Georgia, saying, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah."
1864年，內戰期間，聯盟將軍威廉T.謝爾曼從格魯吉亞向亞伯拉罕·林肯總統發送消息，說“請允許我將薩凡納作為給你的一件圣誕禮物。”
1894 French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason in a court-martial that triggered worldwide charges of anti-Semitism. (He was eventually vindicated.)
1894年，法國軍官阿爾弗雷德·德雷福斯在軍事法庭被判犯有叛國罪，此舉引發了世界范圍內反猶太主義的指控。(最終，他被證明是無辜的。)
1912 Lady Bird Johnson, the wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson, was born Claudio Alta Taylor in Karnack, Texas.
1912年，伯德·約翰遜夫人，林登·約翰遜總統的妻子，在德克薩斯州克勞迪奧·阿爾塔出生。
1941 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Washington, D.C., for a wartime conference with President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1941年，英國首相邱吉爾抵達華盛頓特區與富蘭克林·羅斯福召開一次戰時會議。
1944 During the Battle of the Bulge, Germany demanded the surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium; Brigadier Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe reportedly replied: "Nuts!"
1944年，在比利時巴斯托涅坦克大決戰中，德國要求美軍投降在，據說將軍安東尼C.麥考利夫回道:“瘋了!”
1984 New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shot four black youths on a Manhattan subway, claiming they were about to rob him.
1984年，紐約居民Bernhard Goetz在曼哈頓地鐵槍殺了四名黑人年輕人，稱這幾個黑人打算搶劫他。
1990 Lech Walesa took the oath of office as Poland's first popularly elected president.
1990年，瓦文薩宣誓就任波蘭史上第一位民選總統。
2000 Pop singer Madonna married film director Guy Ritchie in Scotland. (The couple divorced in 2008.)
2000年，流行歌手麥當娜在蘇格蘭與電影導演蓋·里奇結婚。(這對夫婦于2008年離婚。)
2001 Richard C. Reid, a passenger on an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami, tried to ignite explosives in his shoes, but was subdued by flight attendants and fellow passengers.
2001年，從巴黎飛往邁阿密的美國航空航班上，乘客理查德C.里德試圖引爆炸藥他鞋子上的炸彈，但被空乘人員和其他乘客制服。
2005 Astronomers announced the discovery of two more rings encircling the planet Uranus.
2005年，天文學家宣布發現環繞天王星的兩道新環。
2010 President Barack Obama signed a law allowing gays for the first time in history to serve openly in America's military.
2010年，巴拉克·奧巴馬總統簽署一項法律允許美軍公開同性戀，這在美國歷史上還是第一次。
