Today in History: Wednesday, January 16, 2013
歷史上的今天:2013年1月16日,周三
On Jan. 16, 1991, the White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
1991年1月16日,白宮宣布開始沙漠風暴行動將伊拉克軍隊趕出科威特。
1547 Ivan IV (popularly known as "Ivan the Terrible") was crowned czar of Russia.
1547年,伊凡四世(俗稱“恐怖伊萬”)加冕俄國沙皇。
1920 Prohibition began as the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect.
1920年,美國憲法第十八修正案生效,禁令開始。
1942 Actress Carole Lombard, 33, died in a plane crash near Las Vegas.
1942年,女演員卡羅爾·倫巴在拉斯維加斯一次飛機失事中遇難,時年33歲。
1944 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied invasion force in London.
1944年,艾森豪威爾將軍指揮盟軍入侵倫敦。
1964 The musical "Hello, Dolly!" starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
1964年,卡羅爾·錢寧主演的音樂劇《你好,多莉!》在百老匯開幕,此后該劇演出了2844場。
1969 Two manned Soviet Soyuz spaceships became the first vehicles to dock in space and transfer personnel.
1969年,兩駕載人俄國聯盟號宇宙飛船成為第一批停泊在太空間并轉移人員的太空車輛。
1989 Three days of rioting erupted in Miami when a police officer fatally shot a black motorcyclist, causing a crash that also claimed the life of a passenger.
1989年,邁阿密一警察射殺一黑人摩托車駕駛員,引發了三天的暴亂并釀成車禍,一乘客遇難。
1992 The government of El Salvador and rebel leaders signed a pact in Mexico City ending 12 years of civil war that had killed at least 75,000 people.
1992年,薩爾瓦多政府和反對派領導人在墨西哥簽署一份協議,結束12了年的內戰,造成至少75000人死亡。
2003 The space shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven blasted off from Cape Canaveral. (The shuttle broke up during its return descent on Feb. 1, killing everyone on board.)
2003年,搭載7名船員的哥倫比亞號航天飛機在卡納維拉爾角發射升空。(航天飛機在2月1日返回過程中發生爆炸,造成機上所有成員遇難。)
2004 Pop star Michael Jackson pleaded innocent to child molestation charges in Santa Maria, Calif. (Charges were later re-filed and Jackson was acquitted.)
2004年,流行音樂巨星邁克爾·杰克遜在加州圣馬麗亞對猥褻兒童罪提出辯護。(指控后來被重新歸檔,杰克遜被判無罪。)
2006 Africa's first elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was sworn in as Liberia's president.
2006年,非洲第一位民選女性國家元首埃倫·約翰遜·瑟利夫宣誓就任利比里亞總統。
2007 Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., launched his successful bid for the White House.
2007年,參議員巴拉克·奧巴馬表示有意競選白宮。