(单词翻译:单击)
August 21st, 1991. In Moscow, a coup by hard-line Communists against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev collapses,
1991年8月21日，在莫斯科，共产主义强硬派领导的反苏联领导人米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫的政变未遂，
leading the popular uprising against the coup plotter Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation.
反对政变策划者、俄罗斯联邦总统鲍里斯·叶利钦的起义由而兴起。
Gorbachev returns to power. But the Soviet Union dissolves by the end of the year, effectively ending the cold war.
戈尔巴乔夫再度执政。但到年底的时候，苏联解体，冷战结束。
1940. In Mexico City, Leon Trotsky, the exiled Russian revolutionary, dies after an assassin drives an ax-pick into his skull.
1940年，在墨西哥城，流亡的俄国革命者列夫·托洛茨基死亡，此前一名刺客将一把斧头凿入了他的头骨。
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Trotsky's long time rival for power, is widely believed to have arranged the murder.
托洛茨基长期以来的权利竞争对手，苏联领导人约瑟夫·斯大林被认为是此次谋杀的筹划者。
1831. In Virginia, Nat Turner leads the slave rebellion, hoping to spark a slave uprising in the South.
1831年，在弗吉尼亚州，奈特·特纳领导奴隶反抗，希望在南方发动一场奴隶起义。
Dozens of whites are killed before the violent revolt is quickly defeated.
暴力抗争被迅速击败前，几十名白人被杀。
Turner is later captured, tried and hanged.
之后特纳被捕，经过审判后被绞死。
1959. The American flag gets its 50th star as President Dwight Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii a State.
1959年，德怀特·艾森豪威尔总统签署一项行政命令，宣告夏威夷作为一个州的身份，此后美国国旗上有了第50颗星。
1904. "Count" Basie, one of Jazz music's greatest bandleaders is born in Red Bank, New Jersey.
1904年，爵士音乐界最伟大的乐队指挥之一贝西伯爵在新泽西州红堤市出生。
And 1938. Kenny Rogers, the country singer and song writer with decades of hits is born in Houston, Texas.
1938年，火了几十年的乡村音乐歌手兼歌曲作家肯尼·罗杰斯在德克萨斯州休斯顿出生。
Today in history, August 21st, Sophia Manos, the Associate Press.
以上是8月21日《历史上的今天》，美联社索菲娅·马诺斯为您播报。
