Today in History: Wednesday, January 23, 2013
歷史上的今天:2013年1月23日,星期三
On Jan. 23, 1973, President Richard Nixon announced an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War.
1973年1月23日,尼克松總統宣布一項達成結束越南戰爭的協議。
1789 Georgetown University was established in present-day Washington, D.C.
1789年,喬治敦大學在今天的華盛頓特區建校。
1849 English-born Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive a medical degree, from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y.
1849年,出生于英國的伊麗莎白布萊克威爾從紐約日內瓦醫學院獲得醫學學位,成為美國第一位獲得醫學學位的女士。
1932 New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1932年,紐約州長富蘭克林D·羅斯福宣布競選民主黨總統候選人。
1937 Seventeen people went on trial in Moscow during Soviet leader Josef Stalin's Great Purge.
1937,蘇聯領導人約瑟夫·斯大林大清洗期間,17人在莫斯科接受審訊。
1950 The Israeli Knesset approved a resolution proclaiming Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
1950年,以色列議會通過一項決議宣布耶路撒冷成為首都。
1962 Tony Bennett recorded "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" in New York for Columbia Records.
1962年,托尼·班尼特在紐約哥倫比亞唱片公司錄制《我把我的心留在舊金山》。
1964 The 24th amendment to the Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, was ratified.
1964年,在聯邦選舉中取消人頭稅的第24條憲法修正案被批準。
1968 North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship the USS Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the communist nation's territorial waters on a spying mission. The crew was held for 11 months.
1968年,朝鮮扣押了美國海軍船USS Pueblo號,聲稱其入侵共產主義國家海域執行間諜任務,船員被扣留11個月。
1977 The TV mini-series "Roots," based on the Alex Haley novel, began airing on ABC.
1977年,以阿歷克斯·哈雷的小說改編的電視短片《根》在美國廣播公司播出。
1989 Surrealist painter Salvador Dali died in his native Spain at age 84.
1989年,超現實主義畫家薩爾瓦多·達利在他的祖國西班牙去世,享年84歲。
1991 Allied forces in the Persian Gulf War announced that they had achieved air superiority after some 12,000 sorties.
1991年,在近12,000次突擊后,波斯灣戰爭中的盟軍宣布他們取得了空中優勢。
2002 Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was abducted in Karachi, Pakistan, by a group demanding the return of prisoners from the Afghan campaign. (He was later killed.)
2002年,《華爾街日報》記者丹尼爾·珀爾在巴基斯坦卡拉奇被一要求歸還阿富汗戰爭罪犯的組織綁架。(后來該記者被殺害。)
2005 Former "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson died at age 79.
2005年,前《今夜秀》節目主持人約翰尼·卡森去世,享年79歲。