Today in History: Friday, February 22, 2013
歷史上的今天:2013年2月22日,星期五
On Feb. 22, 1732, George Washington, the first president of the United States, was born in the Virginia Colony.
1732年2月22日,美國第一任總統喬治·華盛頓在弗吉尼亞殖民地出生。
1819 Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
1819年,西班牙將佛羅里達州割讓給美國。
1862 Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as president of the Confederacy.
1862年,杰弗遜·戴維斯宣誓就任聯盟總統。
1865 Tennessee adopted a new constitution abolishing slavery.
1865年,田納西采用廢除奴隸制度的新憲法。
1879 Frank Winfield Woolworth opened a five-cent store in Utica, N.Y.
1879年,弗蘭克·溫菲爾德·伍爾沃斯在紐約開了一家5美分商店。
1924 Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House.
1924年,卡爾文·柯立芝總統第一次從白宮發表廣播。
1932 Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., was born in Boston, the youngest child of Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy.
1932年,參議員愛德華·肯尼迪在波士頓出生,他是約瑟夫·肯尼迪和蘿絲肯尼迪最小的兒子。
1935 It became illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House.
1935年,飛機飛越白宮構成違法。
1959 The inaugural Daytona 500 race was held in Daytona Beach, Fla.
1959年,首屆代托納500汽車賽在佛羅里達代托納海灘舉行。
1980 The U.S. hockey team beat the Soviets 4-3 In a stunning upset at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y.
1980年,在紐約普萊西德湖冬奧會上,美國曲棍球隊以4 - 3意外擊敗蘇聯隊。
2001 A U.N. war crimes tribunal convicted three Bosnian Serbs on charges of rape and torture in the first case of wartime sexual enslavement to go before an international court.
2001年,在移交國際法庭前,聯合國戰爭罪法庭判三個波黑塞族人強奸和折磨罪,這是戰時性奴隸的首例案件。
2006 Insurgents destroyed the golden dome of one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines, the Askariya mosque in Samarra, setting off a spasm of sectarian violence.
2006年,叛亂分子摧毀了伊拉克什葉派最神圣的阿里·哈迪清真寺的黃金圓頂,此舉引發了一陣宗派暴力。
2013 A magnitude-6.1 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, killed 184 people.
2013年,新西蘭克萊斯特徹奇發生6.1級地震,造成184人死亡。
2013 Somali pirates shot to death four Americans taken hostage on their yacht several hundred miles south of Oman.
2013年,在阿曼以南數百里處,索馬里海盜槍殺了劫持在游艇上的四名美國人。