Today in History: Friday, October 12, 2012
历史上的今天：2012年10月12日，周五

On Oct. 12, 1492 (Old Style calendar; Oct. 21st New Style), Christopher Columbus arrived with his expedition in the present-day Bahamas.
1492年10月12日(旧历；新历10月21日)，克里斯托弗·哥伦布和他的探险队登陆今天的巴哈马群岛2F-~ksqwg,NQ。

1810 The German festival Oktoberfest was first held in Munich to celebrate the wedding of Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
1810年，为庆祝路德维格王子Ludwig和Saxe-Hildburghausen公主Therese，在慕尼黑举办举办第一次举办啤酒节n&.~e_7,-+。

1935 Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti was born in Modena, Italy.
1935年，歌剧歌手帕瓦罗蒂在意大利摩德纳%t#HL,Xx5nNJ!。

1960 Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a U.N. General Assembly session by pounding a shoe on his desk.
1960年，苏联首相赫鲁晓夫用鞋敲打着桌面打断联合国大会会议a0g^#lsre3。

1971 "Jesus Christ Superstar," a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, opened on Broadway.
1971年，由安德鲁·劳埃德·韦伯和蒂姆·赖斯出演的摇滚歌剧"Jesus Christ Superstar"在百老汇上演t4DMKK(rVeH1.oH。

1973 President Richard Nixon nominated House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president.
1973年，理查德·尼克松总统提名众议院少数党领袖杰拉尔德·福特接替斯皮罗·阿格纽担任副总统#EHhUz*R%2D[。

1984 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an attempt on her life when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at a hotel in Brighton, England, killing five people.
1984年，当爱尔兰共和军炮轰英格兰布赖顿一酒店造成5人死亡，英国首相撒切尔夫人幸免于难5^=82(_peQYLI(M7。

1986 Superpower talks between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland, ended in stalemate.
1986年，在冰岛雷克雅未克，美国总统罗纳德·里根和苏联领导人米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫间的超级大国谈话以僵局告终e6+dm4.9i]。

1998 Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, died five days after he was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie.
1998年，怀俄明大学同性恋学生Matthew Shepard在被殴打、抢劫，并拴在拉勒米外栅栏上五天后死亡~5Rz)pRkHtUd。

1999 Pakistan's military overthrew the democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
1999年，巴基斯坦军方推翻了民选政府总理谢里夫a*U4r8gfM;。

2000 Two al-Qaida suicide bombers in an explosives-laden boat rammed into the destroyer the USS Cole in Yemen, killing 17 sailors.
2000年，两名基地组织自杀式炸弹袭击者驾驶一装有炸药小船撞上美国库尔号驱逐舰，造成17名船员遇难zIne#Jo0#]cx[76。

2002 A bomb destroyed a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people. Islamic militants linked to al-Qaida were blamed.
2002年，炸弹摧毁了印尼巴厘岛一个夜总会，造成202人死亡IohG9CKQ7;%Z|WCd。这是与基地组织有关的伊斯兰激进分子所为iD(=!kRf5BS6uY。

2007 Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize for sounding the alarm over global warming.
2007年，前副总统戈尔和联合国政府间气候变化专门委员会因对全球气候变暖发出警告获诺贝尔和平奖qengny#=t]IFf7aNK。

2011 A Nigerian al-Qaida operative pleaded guilty to trying to bring down a jetliner with a bomb in his underwear minutes before the plane landed in Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was later sentenced to life in prison.)
2011年，一尼日利亚基地组织特工承认在2009年圣诞节飞机降落在底特律前定时内衣中的炸弹试图炸毁飞机有罪W3ZFf!oZdSi7hl。(奥马尔·法鲁克·阿卜杜勒穆塔拉布随后被判处终身监禁OmxdyD3)xTSM=G。)