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Today in History: Monday, December 31, 2012
歷史上的今天：2012年12月31日，星期一
On Dec. 31, 1879, Thomas Edison first publicly demonstrated his electric incandescent light in Menlo Park, N.J.
1879年12月31日，托馬斯·愛迪生在新澤西州門洛帕克首次公開展示了他的電動白熾燈。
1857 Britain's Queen Victoria decided to make Ottawa the capital of Canada.
1857年，英國女王維多利亞決定選擇渥太華為加拿大首都。
1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed an act admitting West Virginia to the Union.
1862年，亞伯拉罕·林肯總統簽署了一項法案允許西維吉尼亞州加入聯邦。
1951 The Marshall Plan expired after distributing more than $12 billion in foreign aid.
1951年，在分發120多億美元的外國援助后，馬歇爾計劃期滿失效。
1974 Private U.S. citizens were allowed to buy and own gold for the first time in more than 40 years.
1974年，40多年以來，美國公民首次允許購買和持有黃金。
1985 Rock singer Rick Nelson, 45, and six other people were killed when fire broke out aboard a DC-3 that was taking the group to a New Year's Eve performance in Dallas.
1985年，45歲的搖滾歌手里克·尼爾森和其他六人前往達拉斯參加跨年表演，搭乘的DC-3遭遇大火，幾人全部遇難。
1993 Entertainer Barbra Streisand performed her first paid concert in 22 years, singing to a sellout crowd at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas.
1993名，表演者芭芭拉·史翠珊表演了她22年來首次有報酬的音樂會，拉斯維加斯米高梅大花園座無虛席。
1997 Michael Kennedy, 39-year-old son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was killed in a skiing accident on Aspen Mountain in Colorado.
1997年，已故參議員羅伯特·肯尼迪的39歲兒子邁克爾·肯尼迪在科羅拉多州阿斯彭山一場滑雪事故中喪命。
2006 The death toll for Americans killed in the Iraq war reached 3,000.
2006年，美軍在伊拉克戰爭中的死亡人數達到了3000。
