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Today in History: Tuesday, December 18, 2012
历史上的今天：2012年12月18日，星期二
On Dec. 18, 1865, slavery ended in the United States as the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was declared in effect.
1865年12月18号，美国宪法第十三条修正案生效，标志着奴隶制度宣布结束。
1787 New Jersey became the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1787年，新泽西州成为批准美国宪法的第三个州。
1886 Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb was born in Narrows, Ga.
1886年，棒球名人堂泰科布在Narrows, Ga出生。
1892 Peter Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker Suite" premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1892年，彼得·柴可夫斯基的《胡桃夹子组曲》在俄罗斯圣彼得堡首映。
1915President Woodrow Wilson, widowed the year before, married Edith Bolling Galt.
1915年，伍德罗·威尔逊总统丧偶一年后迎娶伊迪丝·宝琳·高尔特。
1944 The Supreme Court upheld the wartime relocation of Japanese-Americans.
1944年，最高法院支持战时搬迁的日裔美国人。
1957 The first nuclear facility in the United States to generate electricity, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, went online.
1957年，美国第一座核电站--西平坡特原子能发电站--在在宾夕法尼亚州运营发电。
1958 The world's first communications satellite was launched by the United States aboard an Atlas rocket.
1958年，世界上第一个通信卫星由美国宇宙神火箭成功发射。
1969 Britain's Parliament abolished the death penalty for murder.
1969年，英国议会废除对谋杀罪判处死刑。
1972 The United States began the heaviest bombing of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
1972年，越战期间，美国开始对北越进行轰炸。
1987 Ivan F. Boesky was sentenced to three years in prison for plotting Wall Street's biggest insider-trading scandal.
1987年，伊凡·博被因策划华尔街最大的内幕交易丑闻判处三年监禁。
2003 A judge in Seattle sentenced confessed Green River killer Gary Ridgeway to 48 consecutive life terms.
2003年，西雅图的一位法官判处认罪的绿河区杀手加里·里奇韦48年监禁。
2003 A jury in Chesapeake, Va., convicted teenager Lee Boyd Malvo of two counts of murder in the Washington-area sniper shootings. (He was later sentenced to life in prison without parole.)
2003年，青年 Lee Boyd Malvo因在华盛顿狙击手枪击事件中犯有两项谋杀罪被弗吉尼亚州切萨皮克一陪审团定罪。(他后来被判处终身监禁，并且不能假释。)
2008 A U.N. court in Tanzania convicted former Rwandan army Col. Theoneste Bagosora of genocide and crimes against humanity for masterminding the killings of more than half a million people in a 100-day slaughter in 1994.
2008年，在坦桑尼亚联合国法庭上，前卢旺达军队上校Bagosora Theoneste被判反人类和种族灭绝罪，因其在1994年的100天内策划杀戮了50多万人。
2009 Reality TV stars Jon and Kate Gosselin, parents of eight children, divorced.
2009年，八个孩子的父母，电视真人秀明星乔恩和凯特戈斯林离婚。
