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Today in History: Monday, January 21, 2013
歷史上的今天：2013年1月21日，星期一
On Jan. 21, 1793, France's King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine.
1793年1月21日，法國國王路易十六因叛國罪被處死在斷頭臺。
1861 Five Southerners resigned from the U.S. Senate, including Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, the future president of the Confederacy.
1861年，包括密西西比杰斐遜·戴維斯在內的五個南方人從美國參議院辭職，后來杰斐遜成了南部邦聯總統。
1915 The first Kiwanis Club was founded, in Detroit.
1915年，第一個基瓦尼俱樂部在底特律成立。
1924 Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died of a stroke at age 53.
1924年，俄國革命先驅弗·伊·列寧死于中風，享年53歲。
1950 A federal jury in New York City found former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury.
1950年，紐約一聯邦陪審團發現前國務院官員阿爾杰·希斯犯有偽證罪。
1954 The first atomic submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched at Groton, Conn.
1954年，第一艘核潛艇鸚鵡螺號在美國康涅狄格州格羅頓啟動。
1976 The supersonic Concorde jet was put into service by Britain and France.
1976年，協和式超音速飛機在英法投入服役。
1977 President Jimmy Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.
1977年，卡特總統赦免幾乎所有越戰是的逃避兵役者。
1997 Speaker Newt Gingrich was reprimanded and fined as the House voted for first time in history to discipline its leader for ethical misconduct.
1997年，議長紐特·金里奇遭譴責并被罰款，這是眾議院投票史上第一次因道德違紀處罰領導人。
1998 Pope John Paul II began his first visit to Cuba.
1998年，教皇約翰·保羅二世開始了他的首次古巴訪問。
2003 The Census Bureau announced that Hispanics had surpassed blacks as America's largest minority group.
2003年，美國人口普查局宣布作為美國最大的少數民族，拉美裔人超過了黑人。
2004 The recording industry sued 532 computer users it said were illegally distributing songs over the Internet.
2004年，唱片業起訴532名計算機用戶，控告他們通過互聯網非法傳播歌曲。
2010 A bitterly divided Supreme Court, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, vastly increased the power of big business and labor unions to influence government decisions by freeing them to spend their millions directly to sway elections for president and Congress.
2010年，一個出現嚴重分裂的最高法院,在市民聯盟訴聯邦選舉委員會,大大增加了大企業的力量和工會來影響政府決策通過釋放他們花費數百萬直接影響選舉總統和國會。
2010 Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards finally admitted fathering a child during an affair before his second White House bid.
2010年，前民主黨總統候選人約翰·愛德華茲在第二次參選總統前承認因一段外遇生育了一孩子。
