Today in History: Monday, March 25, 2013
歷史上的今天:2013年3月25日,星期一
On March 25, 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. factory in New York City killed 146 workers, most of them young immigrant women. The tragedy galvanized America's labor movement.
1911年3月25日,紐約三角內衣廠發生火災,造成146名工人死亡,其中大部分是年輕的移民女性。此次悲劇促成了美國勞工運動。
1634 Maryland was founded by English colonists.
1634年,英國殖民者建立馬里蘭州。
1807Britain abolished its slave trade.
1807年,英國廢除奴隸貿易。
1894 Jacob S. Coxey began leading an "army" of the unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C., to demand help from the federal government.
1894年,雅各布S科克塞帶領的失業“部隊”從俄亥俄馬西隆游行到華盛頓特區,要求聯邦政府提供幫助。
1913 The home of vaudeville, the Palace Theatre, opened in New York City.
1913年,家的雜耍,皇宮劇院,開在紐約市。
1957 The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community.
1957年,《羅馬條約》建立了歐洲經濟共同體。
1965 The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.
1965年,馬丁·路德·金牧師帶領25,000名游行者到達阿拉巴馬州蒙哥馬利市州議會大廈,抗議拒絕黑人投票權。
1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness.
1975年,沙特阿拉伯國王費薩爾被一名有精神病史的侄子射殺致死。
1992 Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth from the Mir space station after a 10-month stay, during which his native country, the Soviet Union, ceased to exist.
1992年,宇航員謝爾蓋·克里卡列夫在和平號空間站呆10了個月后返回地球,在此期間他的祖國蘇聯解體。
1994 American troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia.
1994年,美國軍隊完成從索馬里撤軍。
1996 An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, Mont.
1996年,在約旦蒙特附近,一場為期81天的反政府自由對峙拉開序幕。
1998 President Bill Clinton acknowledged during his Africa tour that "we did not act quickly enough" to stop the slaughter of 1 million Rwandans four years earlier.
1998年,比爾·克林頓總統承認在他的非洲之旅中,“沒有采取足夠迅速的行動“阻止四年前對100萬盧旺達人的屠殺。
2002 A powerful earthquake rocked Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, killing as many as 1,000 people.
2002年,阿富汗和巴基斯坦西北部發生強烈地震,造成1000多人死亡。