Today in History: Sunday, March 31, 2013
歷史上的今天:2013年3月31日,星期天
On March 31, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson made a surprise announcement that he would not run for re-election.
1968年3月31日,林登·約翰遜總統出人意料地宣布不再競選連任。
1492 King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issued an edict expelling Jews unwilling to convert to Christianity.
1492年,國王費迪南和西班牙女王伊莎貝拉發布一項法令,驅逐那些不愿皈依基督教的猶太人。
1889 French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower to mark its completion.
1889年,法國工程師亞歷山大·古斯塔夫·埃菲爾在埃菲爾鐵塔頂展開法國三色旗,以標志它的完成。
1917 The United States took possession of the Virgin Islands from Denmark.
1917年,美國從丹麥手中占領維爾京群島。
1943 The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!" opened on Broadway.
1943年,羅杰斯和漢默斯坦的音樂劇《俄克拉荷馬!》在百老匯上映。
1945 "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway.
1945年,田納西·威廉姆斯執導的《玻璃動物園》在百老匯上映。
1976 The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that coma patient Karen Anne Quinlan could be disconnected from her respirator.
1976年,新澤西最高法院裁定昏迷的病人凱倫·安妮坤可能斷開了呼吸機。
1992 The U.N. Security Council voted to ban flights and arms sales to Libya, branding it a terrorist state for shielding six men accused of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 and a French airliner.
1992年,因敘利亞庇護被指控炸毀泛美航空103航班和一架法國客機的六名男子,聯合國安理會投票禁止向敘出售飛機和武器,稱其是一個恐怖國家。
1995 Singer Selena, 23, was shot to death in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the founder of her fan club.
1995年,23歲的歌手賽琳娜在得克薩斯州科珀斯克里斯蒂被她粉絲俱樂部的創始人射殺身亡。
1999 Four New York City police officers were charged with murder for killing Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant, in a hail of bullets. (They were acquited in 2000.)
1999年,四名紐約警察被指控在亂槍中殺害了一名手無寸鐵的非洲移民阿瑪杜·迪亞洛。(他們在2000年被釋放)
2004 Four American civilian contractors were killed in Fallujah, Iraq; frenzied crowds dragged their burned, mutilated bodies and strung two of them from a bridge.
2004年,四名美國平民承包商在伊拉克費盧杰被殺,瘋狂的人群將他們點燃并拖著他們殘缺不全的尸體,其中兩人還被掛在一座橋上。
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