"In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth."
“起初,上帝创造了天地。”
December 24th, 1968. The astronauts of Apollo VIII become the first human beings to orbit the moon.
1968年12月24日,阿波罗8号上的宇航员成为第一个绕月飞行的人类。
They read passages from the Old Testament Book of Genesis during a TV broadcast on Christmas Eve.
在平安夜的电视广播中,他们朗读了《旧约·创世纪》中的章节。
"And God said: 'let there be light.' And there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness."
上帝说,要有光,于是就有了光。上帝看光是好的,就把光和暗分开了。”
1865. In Pulaski, Tennessee, several Confederate Army veterans form a private social club called the Ku Klux Klan.
1865年,在田纳西州的普拉斯基,几名南方联盟的退伍军人组成了一个名为三K党的私人社交俱乐部。
The white supremacist group targets blacks and other groups with violence during post-Civil War Reconstruction and into the civil rights era.
在内战后的重建和民权时代,这个白人至上主义组织用暴力攻击黑人和其他群体。
1906. Canadian physicist Reginald Fessenden becomes the first person to transmit the human voice, his own, as well as music over radio.
1906年,加拿大物理学家雷金纳德·范信达成为第一个通过无线电传递人类声音—他自己的声音,以及音乐的人。
The audience for his broadcast from Brant Rock, Massachusetts would have been radio telegraph operators aboard ships in the Atlantic Ocean.
他在马萨诸塞州布兰特罗克的广播听众是大西洋上船上的无线电报员。
And 1871. The world premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida in Cairo, Egypt to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal.
1871年,为庆祝苏伊士运河开通,威尔第的歌剧《阿伊达》在埃及开罗举行全球首演。
Today in History, December 24th, Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.
以上是12月24日《历史上的今天》,美联社桑迪·科泽尔为您播报。