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Today in History: Saturday, January 19, 2013
歷史上的今天：2013年1月19日，星期六
On Jan. 19, 1966, Indira Gandhi was elected prime minister of India.
1966年1月19日，英迪拉·甘地當選印度總理。
1736 James Watt, inventor of the steam engine, was born in Scotland.
1736年，蒸汽機的發明者詹姆斯瓦特在蘇格蘭出生。
1807 Robert E. Lee, the commander-in-chief of the Confederate armies, was born in Stratford, Va.
1807年，南方邦聯軍總司令羅伯特E·李在弗吉尼亞州斯特拉特福德出生。
1809 Author Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston.
1809年，作家埃德加·愛倫·坡在波斯頓出生。
1861 Georgia seceded from the Union.
1861年，喬治亞州脫離聯邦政府。
1943 Rock singer Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas.
1943年，搖滾歌手詹尼斯·喬普林出生在德克薩斯阿瑟港出生。
1944 The federal government relinquished control of the nation's railroads after settling a wage dispute.
1944年，在一次工資糾紛解決后聯邦政府放棄對國家鐵路的控制。
1955 A presidential news conference was filmed for TV for the first time, with the permission of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1955年，艾森豪威爾總統批準，總統新聞發布會首次拍攝成電視。
1979 Former Attorney General John Mitchell was released on parole after serving 19 months in federal prison for Watergate-related crimes.
1979年，前司法部長約翰·米切爾因水門事件在聯邦監獄服刑19個月后被假釋。
1981 The United States and Iran signed an agreement paving the way for the release of 52 Americans held hostage for more than 14 months.
1981年，美國和伊朗簽署了一項協議，為釋放拘留14個多月之久的人質鋪平了道路。
2006 An unmanned NASA spacecraft blasted off on a 3 billion-mile journey to Pluto.
2006年，一架美國國家航空航天局無人駕駛宇宙飛船發射升空，開始了30億英里遠的冥王星之旅。
2010 In a major upset, Republican Scott Brown captured the U.S. Senate seat held by liberal champion Edward Kennedy for nearly half a century as he defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in a special election.
2010年，在一次特別選舉中，共和黨人斯科特·布朗擊敗民主黨人瑪莎·科克利奪取了自由斗士愛德華·肯尼迪保持近半個世紀的美國參議員席位。
