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Today in History: Monday, December 24, 2012
歷史上的今天：2012年12月24日，星期一
On Dec. 24, 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts, orbiting the moon, read passages from the Old Testament Book of Genesis during a Christmas Eve TV broadcast.
在1968年12月24日，環繞月球軌道的阿波羅8號宇航員，圣誕前夕在電視廣播上讀舊約圣經中的《創世紀》。
1814 The War of 1812 officially ended as the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Ghent in Belgium.
1814年，美國和英國在比利時簽署根特條約，1812年戰爭正式結束。
1851 Fire devastated the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., destroying about 35,000 volumes.
1851年，大火摧毀華盛頓國會圖書館，毀壞了約35000卷書。
1865 The Ku Klux Klan was founded as a private social club by several Confederate Army veterans in Pulaski, Tenn.
1865年，在田納西Pulaski,幾個南部邦聯軍隊退伍軍人創建Ku Klux Klan，作為一個社交俱樂部。
1871Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Aida" had its world premiere in Cairo, Egypt, to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal.
1871年，威爾第的歌劇《Aida》在埃及開羅舉行全球首映，慶祝蘇伊士運河通航。
1906 Canadian physicist Reginald A. Fessenden became the first person to broadcast a music program over radio, from Brant Rock, Mass.
1906年，加拿大物理學家雷金納德a . Fessenden成為從Brant Rock, Mass通過電臺播放音樂程序的第一人。
1920 Enrico Caruso gave his last public performance, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
1920年，恩里科·卡魯索在紐約大都會歌劇院進行了他最后一次公開表演。
1943 President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces during World War II.
1943年，二戰期間，美國總統富蘭克林·羅斯福任命將軍德懷特D.艾森豪威爾為盟軍最高指揮官。
1992 President George H.W. Bush pardoned former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five others in the Iran-Contra scandal.
1992年，老布什總統赦免了身陷伊朗門丑聞中的前國防部長溫伯格和其他五人。
2002 Laci Peterson was reported missing from her Modesto, Calif., home, by her husband, Scott, who was later convicted of murdering her and their unborn son.
2002年，報道稱Laci Peterson在她加州莫德斯托的家中失蹤，她的丈夫斯科特，后來被判謀殺她和他們未出生的兒子。
2009 The Senate passed health care legislation, 60-39, in the chamber's first Christmas Eve vote since 1895.
2009年，自1895年以來議院的首個圣誕節前夕投票中，參議院以60比39投票票通過了醫保立法。
