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历史上的今天(Jan 17):杰明·富兰克林在波斯顿出生

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Today in History: Thursday, January 17, 2013

历史上的今天:2013年1月17日,星期四

On Jan. 17, 1961, in his farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned against "the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."

1961年1月17日,在总统德怀特D.艾森豪威尔的告别演说中警告“对政府来说,我们必须避免军工复合体自觉或不自觉带来的影响”。

1562 French Protestants were recognized under the Edict of St. Germain.

1562年,在圣日耳曼敕令下,法国新教徒得到公认。

1706 Statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston.

1706年,政治家和发明家本杰明·富兰克林在波斯顿出生。

1806 Thomas Jefferson's daughter, Martha, gave birth to James Madison Randolph, the first child born in the White House.

1806年,托马斯·杰斐逊的女儿玛莎在白宫生下了第一个孩子詹姆斯·麦迪逊伦道夫。

1893 Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown.

1893年,夏威夷君主制被推翻。

1893 Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th president of the United States, died in Fremont, Ohio, at age 70.

1893年,美国第19任总统卢瑟福B.海耶斯在俄亥俄州弗里蒙特逝世,享年70岁。

1899 Gangster Al Capone was born in Brooklyn, N.Y.

1899年,Gangster Al Capone在纽约布鲁克林出生。

1945 Soviet and Polish forces liberated Warsaw during World War II.

1945年,二战期间,苏联和波兰解放华沙。

1945 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, was taken into Soviet custody in Budapest, Hungary. (His fate has never been determined.)

1945年,大屠杀期间拯救了成千上万犹太人的瑞典外交官拉乌尔·瓦伦贝里被苏联关押在匈牙利布达佩斯。(他的命运仍未知。)

1946 The United Nations Security Council held its first meeting.

1946年,联合国安理会举行了第一次会议。

1977 Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore was shot by a firing squad at Utah State Prison in the first U.S. execution in a decade.

1977年,在犹他州州立监狱,美国十年来第一次由行刑队枪决了加里·吉尔摩杀人犯。

1994 A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Southern California, killing at least 61 people and causing $20 billion worth of damage.

1994年,南加州发生6.7级地震,造成至少61人死亡并导致200亿美元的损失。

1995 A magnitude 7.2 earthquake devastated the city of Kobe, Japan; more than 6,000 people were killed.

1995年,日本神户发生7.2级地震,超过6000人死亡。

1997 A court in Ireland granted the first divorce in the Roman Catholic country's history.

1997年,在罗马天主教国家历史上,爱尔兰法院授予了第一对离婚。

1998 President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to testify as a defendant in a criminal or civil suit when he answered questions from lawyers for Paula Jones, who had accused Clinton of sexual harassment.

1998年,比尔·克林顿总统成为第一位在刑事或民事诉讼中作为被告的美国总统,他被控性骚扰,在法庭上回答葆拉·琼斯的律师的提问。

2001 Faced with an electricity crisis, California used rolling blackouts to cut off power to hundreds of thousands of people.

2001年,加利福尼亚州出现电力危机,成千上万的人被迫轮流停电。

2008 Chess master Bobby Fischer died at age 64.

2008年,国际象棋大师鲍比·菲舍尔去世,享年64岁。

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