Today in History: Monday, April 15, 2013
歷史上的今天:2013年4月14日,星期一
April 15th, 1912, just hours after hitting an iceberg, the Titanic sinks off the coast of Newfoundland. About 1,500 people on board the British luxury liner perish in the waters of the icy North Atlantic.
1912年4月15日,泰坦尼克號在紐芬蘭海岸附近撞上冰山僅數(shù)小時后沉入海底。船上約1500名乘客喪命于冰冷的北大西洋。
1865, President Abraham Lincoln dies in Washington, hours after John Wilkes Booth shoots and mortally wounds him at Ford’s Theater. Vice President Andrew Johnson succeeds Lincoln in the White House.
1865年,亞伯拉罕·林肯總統(tǒng)在華盛頓福特劇院遭約翰·威爾克斯·布斯射殺,數(shù)小時后因致命傷去世。副總統(tǒng)安德魯·約翰遜在白宮接任林肯。
1947, “Did you see Jackie Robinson hit that ball?It went zoomin cross the left field wall. Yeah boy, yes, yes. Jackie hit that ball.”Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American player in major league baseball. His debut with Brooklyn Dodgers shatters baseball’s decades-old racial barrier.
1947年,“你有沒有看到杰基·羅賓森擊中球嗎?它穿過了左外場。男孩,是的,是的,杰基擊中了球。”杰基·羅賓遜成為第一位非裔美國職業(yè)棒球大聯(lián)盟球員。他在布魯克林道奇隊首次打破棒球史上幾十年的種族隔閡。
1986, the United States launches an air raid against Libya in response to the bombing of a disco in what’s then West Berlin, Germany. Libya says 37 people, mostly civilians, are killed in the raid.
1986年,因利比亞轟炸當時德國西柏林的一迪斯科廳,美國對其發(fā)動空襲。利比亞稱空襲造成37人死亡,其中大部分是平民。
1998, Pol Pot, leader of the Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, dies of natural causes along the border with Thailand at age 73. He evades prosecution for the deaths of 2 million Cambodians under his brutal regime during the 1970s.
1998年,柬埔寨紅色高棉黨領袖波爾布特在泰國交界處死于自然因素,享年73歲。20世紀70年代柬埔寨在他的暴政統(tǒng)治下,有200多萬人死去,他因遭控告而逃離。
And 2001,“Twenty twenty four hours to go, I wanna be sedated.”In New York, punk rocker Joey Ramone, lead singer of the Ramones, dies of lymphoma at age 49.
2001年,在紐約,朋克搖滾主唱喬伊·雷蒙死于淋巴瘤,時年49歲。
Today in History, April 15th. Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.
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