Today in History: Thursday, February 28, 2013
歷史上的今天:2013年2月28日,周四
On Feb. 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot to death in central Stockholm.
1986年2月28日,瑞典首相奧洛夫·帕爾梅在斯德哥爾摩市中心被槍殺。
1827 The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. was incorporated.
1827年,巴爾的摩和俄亥俄州鐵路有限公司成立。
1854 About 50 slavery opponents met in Ripon, Wis., to call for creation of a new political group that became the Republican Party.
1854年,大約50名奴隸制反對者在威斯康星州集會,呼吁建立一個新的政治團體,即如今的共和黨。
1861 The Territory of Colorado was organized.
1861年,科羅拉多州領土組建。
1940 College basketball was televised for the first time as station W2XBS aired the Pittsburgh-Fordham and Georgetown-NYU games from Madison Square Garden in New York.
1940年,在紐約麥迪遜廣場花園,電視臺上首次播出了匹茲堡與福特漢姆,喬治敦和紐約大學的大學生籃球比賽。
1953 Scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule that contains the human genes, at Cambridge University.
1953年,科學家詹姆斯·D·沃森和弗朗西斯·克里克H.C.在劍橋大學發現了DNA雙螺旋結構,該分子包含了人類基因。
1960 The U.S. Olympic hockey team won the gold medal, defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4 at Squaw Valley, Calif.
1960年,美國奧運曲棍球隊在加州斯闊谷以9-4擊敗捷克斯洛伐克獲得金牌。
1972 President Richard M. Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued the Shanghai Communique at the conclusion of Nixon's historic visit to China, a step toward the eventual normalization of relations between the two countries.
1972年,美國總統尼克松和中國總理周恩來發行上海公報作為尼克松歷史性訪華的結束,致兩國關系走向正常化。
1974 The United States and Egypt re-established diplomatic relations after a seven-year break.
1974年,美國和埃及斷交7年后重新建立外交關系。
1983 The album "War" by U2 was released.
1983年,U2樂隊的專輯《戰爭》發布。
1991 Allied and Iraqi forces suspended their attacks as Iraq pledged to accept all United Nations resolutions concerning Kuwait.
1991年,伊拉克承諾接受聯合國關于科威特的所有決議,盟軍和伊拉克部隊暫停攻擊。
2005 Lebanon's pro-Syrian prime minister, Omar Karami, resigned amid large anti-Syria street demonstrations in Beirut.
2005年,貝魯特街頭發生大型反敘利亞示威,黎巴嫩親敘總理Omar Karami,辭職。
2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. died at age 89.
2007年,普利策獎得主,歷史學家阿瑟M.·施萊辛格Jr.去世,享年89歲。