Today in History: Tuesday, February 26, 2013
歷史上的今天:2013年2月26日,星期二
On Feb. 26, 1993, a bomb built by Islamic extremists exploded in the parking garage of New York City's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000.
1993年2月26日,伊斯蘭極端分子安置的炸彈在紐約市世界貿易中心停車場發生爆炸,造成6人死亡,1000多人受傷。
1815Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from the island of Elba to begin his second conquest of France.
1815年,拿破侖·波拿巴逃離厄爾巴島,開始他對法國的第二次征服。
1848The Second French Republic was proclaimed.
1848年,第二個法蘭西共和國宣告成立。
1870New York City's first pneumatic-powered subway line was opened to the public. (The tunnel was only a block long.)
1870年,紐約第一個氣體驅動地鐵線路向公眾開放(通道僅一個街區長)。
1919Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.
1919年,國會在亞利桑那州大峽谷建立國家公園。
1932Country musician Johnny Cash was born in Kingsland, Ark.
1932年,鄉村音樂家約翰尼·卡什在金斯蘭出生。
1952Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed its own atomic bomb.
1952年,英國首相溫斯頓·丘吉爾宣布已經開發了自己的原子彈。
1970National Public Radio was incorporated.
1970年,全國公共廣播電臺成立。
1987The Tower Commission issued its report on the Iran-Contra affair, rebuking President Ronald Reagan for failing to control his national security staff.
1987年,塔委員會發布伊朗門事件報告,譴責總統羅納德·里根未能保護國家安全人員。
1991Iraqi President Saddam Hussein announced on Baghdad Radio that he had ordered his forces to withdraw from Kuwait.
1991年,伊拉克總統薩達姆·侯賽因在巴格達廣播電臺宣布,他已下令軍隊撤出科威特。
1995Barings PLC, Britain's oldest investment banking firm, collapsed after a securities dealer lost more than $1.4 billion by gambling on Tokyo stock prices.
1995年,英國最古老的投資銀行巴林銀行因投機東京股票價格致證券交易商損失14多億美元后破產。
2001A U.N. tribunal convicted Bosnian Croat political leader Dario Kordic and military commander Mario Cerkez of war crimes for ordering the systematic murder and persecution of Muslim civilians during the Bosnian war.
2001年,聯合國法庭宣判波斯尼亞克族政治領導人Dario Kordic 和軍事指揮官Mario Cerkez犯有戰爭罪,因其在波斯尼亞戰爭期間對穆斯林平民進行系統性的謀殺和迫害。