Today in History: Monday, February 04, 2013
歷史上的今天:2013年2月4日,星期一
On Feb. 4, 1801, John Marshall was sworn in as chief justice of the United States.
1801年2月4日,約翰·馬歇爾宣誓就任美國首席大法官。
1783 Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War.
1783年,美國革命戰爭中,英國宣布正式停止敵對行動。
1789 Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.
1789年,選舉人一致選擇喬治·華盛頓擔任美國第一任總統。
1861 Delegates from six southern states met in Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America.
1861年,來自六個南方州的代表在阿拉巴馬州蒙哥馬利市會見,創建美利堅聯盟國。
1913 Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Ala.
1913年,民權先鋒羅莎·帕克斯在阿拉巴馬州塔斯基吉Rosa Louise McCauley出生。
1938 The Thornton Wilder play "Our Town" opened on Broadway.
1938年,桑頓·懷爾德的戲劇《我們小鎮》在百老匯開映。
1941 The United Service Organizations (USO) was formed.
1941年,美國聯合服務組織(USO)成立。
1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a wartime conference at Yalta.
1945年,總統弗蘭克林D·羅斯福、英國首相溫斯頓·丘吉爾和蘇聯領導人約瑟夫·斯大林在雅爾塔召開戰時會議。
1948 The island nation of Ceylon - now Sri Lanka - became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth.
1948年,島國錫蘭(現在的斯里蘭卡)從英聯邦獲得獨立統治。
1974 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, Calif., by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
1974年,報紙女繼承人帕特里夏·赫斯特在加州伯克利被共生解放軍綁架。
1977 The album "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac was released.
1977年,弗利特伍德麥克樂隊的專輯《謠言》發布。
1983 Singer Karen Carpenter died at age 32.
1983年,歌手卡倫卡彭特去世,時年32歲。
2000 A coalition government that included Joerg Haider's far-right Freedom Party came to power in Austria, triggering European Union sanctions.
2000年,包括海德的極右翼自由黨在內的聯合政府在奧地利當權,該舉引發歐盟制裁。
2003 Yugoslavia was dissolved and replaced with a loose union of its remaining two republics, Serbia and Montenegro.
2003年,南斯拉夫被解散,取而代之的是兩個剩下共和國塞爾維亞和黑山組成的松散聯盟。
2004 The Massachusetts high court declared that gays were entitled to marry.
2004年,馬薩諸塞州最高法院宣布同性戀結婚合法化。
2004 The social networking website Facebook was launched.
2004年,社交網站Facebook出世。