Today in History: Friday, January 04, 2013
歷史上的今天:2013年1月4日,周五
On Jan. 4, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson outlined the goals of his "Great Society" in his State of the Union address.
1965年1月4日,林登·約翰遜總統在他的國情咨文中概述他建設“偉大社會”的目標。
1896 Utah was admitted to the Union as the 45th state.
1896年,猶他州加入聯邦成為美國第45州。
1948 Britain granted independence to Burma.
1948年,英國同意緬甸獨立。
1951 North Korean and Communist Chinese forces captured the city of Seoul during the Korean War.
1951年,朝鮮戰爭期間,中共和朝鮮軍隊占領首爾市。
1960 Nobel Prize-winning French author Albert Camus died in a car accident at age 46.
1960年,諾貝爾獎獲得者,法國作家Albert Camus在一場車禍中遇難,享年46歲。
1965 Poet T.S. Eliot died at age 76.
1965年,詩人T.S.Eliot去世,享年76歲。
1974 President Richard Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
1974年,理查德·尼克松總統拒絕交出由參議院水門事件委員會傳喚的磁帶錄音和文件。
1995 The 104th Congress convened, the first entirely under Republican control since the Eisenhower era; Newt Gingrich was elected speaker of the House.
1995年,艾森豪威爾時代以來,第104屆國會首次完全由共和黨控制,紐特·金里奇當選眾議院議長。
1999 Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura was sworn in as governor of Minnesota.
1999年,前職業摔跤手杰西·文圖拉宣誓就任明尼蘇達州州長。
2004 Afghans approved a new constitution.
2004年,阿富汗人批準一項新憲法。
2006 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a stroke and his powers were transferred to his deputy, Ehud Olmert.
2006年,以色列總理沙龍中風,他的權力被轉移到他的副手埃胡德·奧爾默特。
2007 Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., became the first female speaker of the House.
2007年,Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,成為首位女性眾議院議長。
2010 Dubai opened the world's tallest skyscraper, the 2,717-foot gleaming glass-and-metal tower Burj Khalifa.
2010年,迪拜開放了世界上最高的摩天大樓,2717英尺高由玻璃金屬打造的閃閃發光的哈利法塔。