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Today in History: Friday, April 12, 2013
歷史上的今天：2013年4月12日，星期五
On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began as Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
1861年4月12日，南方聯盟軍隊在南卡羅來納州向薩姆特堡開火，美國內戰爆發。
1606England's King James I decreed the design of the original Union Flag, which combined the flags of England and Scotland.
1606年，英國國王詹姆斯一世下令設計最原始的英國國旗，它結合了英格蘭和蘇格蘭的國旗。
1877The catcher for Harvard's baseball team, James Tyng, wore a modified fencing mask behind the plate. It is believed to be the first time a catcher's mask was used during a game.
1877年，哈佛棒球隊的接球手杰姆斯廷在投手板后穿了一件修改了的擊劍護面具，這被認為是在這個游戲中首次使用接球手護面具。
1945President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., at age 63.
1945年，美國總統富蘭克林·羅斯福在佐治亞州溫泉鎮因腦出血去世，享年63歲。
1961Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly in space, orbiting the Earth once before making a safe landing.
1961年，蘇聯宇航員尤里加·加林在安全著陸前繞地球飛行一圈，成為第一位在太空中飛行的人。
1981The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on its first test flight.
1981年，哥倫比亞號航天飛機從佛羅里達州卡納維拉爾角發射升空，進行了首次試飛。
1983Harold Washington was elected Chicago's first African-American mayor.
1983年，哈羅德·華盛頓當選芝加哥第一位非洲裔市長。
2002Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez resigned under pressure from the country's divided military. (He was returned to office two days later.)
2002年，委內瑞拉總統烏戈·查韋斯迫于軍事分歧的壓力辭職。(兩天后重新上任。)
2009American cargo ship captain Richard Phillips was rescued from Somali pirates by U.S. Navy snipers who shot and killed three of the hostage-takers.
2009年，美國海軍狙擊手開槍打死了三個綁匪，貨船船長理查德·菲利普斯從索馬里海盜手中獲救。
2013Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale – the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster – even as it insisted radiation leaks were declining at its tsunami-crippled nuclear plant.
2013年，日本將核危機的等級調為國際最高水平，同等于1986年切爾諾貝利災難——盡管日本堅稱受海嘯破壞的核電站輻射泄漏正在減少。
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