Today in History: Tuesday, February 05, 2013
歷史上的今天:2013年2月5日,星期二
On Feb. 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell urged the U.N. Security Council to move against Iraq, saying that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was harboring terrorists - claims that later turned out to be false.
2003年2月5日,美國國務卿科林·鮑威爾敦促聯合國安理會采取行動打擊伊拉克,稱薩達姆擁有大規模殺傷性武器并且庇護恐怖分子,該聲稱后來被證明是錯誤的。
1881 Phoenix, Ariz., was incorporated.
1881年,亞利桑那州菲尼克斯組建。
1917 Congress passed a law severely curtailing the immigration of Asians.
1917年,國會通過了一項嚴重削弱亞洲移民的法律。
1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices. Critics charged that he was attempting to "pack" the court.
1937年,羅斯??偨y提出增加最高法院大法官的數量,批評者指責他試圖“包攬”法院。
1958 Gamel Abdel Nasser was nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic, a short-lived union of Syria and Egypt.
1958年,納賽爾被提名為阿拉伯聯合共和國第一任總統,這是敘利亞和埃及一個短暫的聯盟,。
1988 The Arizona House of Representatives impeached Gov. Evan Mecham, who was later convicted in the state Senate and removed from office.
1988年,亞利桑那州眾議院彈劾州長Evan Mecham,他后來在參議院被判有罪并被罷免。
1988 Panamanian military leader Gen. Manuel Noriega was indicted on bribery and drug trafficking charges in Florida.
1988年,巴拿馬軍事領袖Manuel Noriega 將軍在佛羅里達州被指控犯有受賄和毒品走私罪。
1994 White separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, Miss., of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963. He was sentenced to life in prison.
1994年,白人分裂主義者Byron De La Beckwith在密西西比州杰克遜因1963年謀殺民權領袖Medgar Evers被判有罪,被判終身監禁。
1997 Investment bank Morgan Stanley announced a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter.
1997年,投資銀行摩根士丹利宣布100億美元與添惠公司合并。
2001 Four disciples of Osama bin Laden went on trial in New York in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
2001年,奧薩馬·本·拉登的四個信徒因1988年美駐非洲兩大使館爆炸事件在紐約受審。
2002 A federal grand jury indicted John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban," alleging that he was trained by Osama bin Laden's network and that he conspired with the Taliban to kill Americans.
2002年,聯邦大陪審團起訴約翰·沃克·林德是所謂的“美國塔利班”,聲稱他被奧薩馬·本·拉登通過網絡訓練,并與塔利班合謀殺死美國人。