Today in History: Wednesday, February 20, 2013
歷史上的今天:2013年2月20日,星期三
On Feb. 20, 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, flying aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule.
1962年2月20日,美國宇航員約翰·格倫搭乘友誼7號水星太空艙,成為第一位環(huán)繞地球飛行的美國人。
1792 President George Washington signed an act creating the U.S. Post Office.
1792年,喬治·華盛頓總統(tǒng)簽署了一項創(chuàng)建美國郵局的法案。
1809 The Supreme Court ruled that the power of the federal government is greater than that of any individual state.
1809年,最高法院裁定聯(lián)邦政府的權利高于任何獨立州。
1839 Congress prohibited dueling in the District of Columbia.
1839年,國會禁止在哥倫比亞區(qū)決斗。
1862 William Wallace Lincoln, the 11-year-old son of President Abraham Lincoln and first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, died at the White House, apparently of typhoid fever.
1862年,總統(tǒng)亞伯拉罕·林肯11歲的兒子威廉·華萊士·林肯和第一夫人瑪麗·托德·林肯在白宮死于傷寒。
1895 Abolitionist Frederick Douglass died.
1895年,廢奴主義者弗雷德里克·道格拉斯去世。
1938 British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigned in protest over Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's decision to negotiate with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
1938年,英國外交大臣艾登辭職抗議張伯倫首相與意大利獨裁者墨索里尼談判的決定。
1944 During World War II, U.S. bombers began raiding German aircraft manufacturing centers in a series of attacks that became known as "Big Week."
1944年,二戰(zhàn)期間,美國轟炸機開始對德國飛機制造中心進行一系列襲擊,歷史得名“大周”。
1965 The Ranger 8 spacecraft crashed on the moon after sending back thousands of pictures of the lunar surface.
1965年,“突擊8號”飛船在月球上發(fā)回數(shù)千張月球表面照片后墜毀。
1998 American Tara Lipinski became at age 15 the youngest gold medalist in Winter Olympics history when she won the ladies' figure skating title at Nagano, Japan.
1998年,在日本長野,15歲的美國運動員獲得女子花樣滑冰冠軍,成為美國史上冬季奧運會上最年輕的金牌獲得者。
2003 Fire broke out during a rock concert at a nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., killing 100 people and injuring about 200 others.
2003年,在西沃里克羅一夜總會舉辦的搖滾音樂會上發(fā)生火災,100人喪生,約200人受傷