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Today in History: Saturday, March 16, 2013
历史上的今天:2013年3月16日,星期六
On March 16, 1751, James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, was born in Port Conway, Va.
1751年3月16日，美国第四届总统詹姆斯·麦迪逊在弗吉尼亚州港康威出生。
1521Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines, where he was killed by natives the following month.
1521年，葡萄牙航海家麦哲伦抵达菲律宾，次月被当地人杀害。
1802Congress authorized the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
1802年，国会授权在纽约成立美国西点军校。
1836The Republic of Texas approved a constitution.
1836年，得克萨斯共和国认可宪法。
1850"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne was published.
1850年，纳撒尼尔·霍桑的小说《红字》发表。
1926Rocket science pioneer Robert H. Goddard successfully tested the first liquid-fueled rocket, in Auburn, Mass.
1926年，火箭科学先驱罗伯特H·戈达德在马萨诸塞奥本成功的测试了第一个液体燃料火箭。
1935Adolf Hitler scrapped the Treaty of Versailles.
1935年，阿道夫·希特勒废除《凡尔赛条约》。
1968U.S. troops gunned down hundreds of unarmed civilians in the village of My Lai during the Vietnam War.
1968名，越南战争期间，美国士兵枪杀了美莱村数百名手无寸铁的平民。
1985Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, was abducted in Beirut.
1985年，美联社首席中东记者特里·安德森在贝鲁特遭绑架。
2003Vice President Dick Cheney predicted on NBC's "Meet the Press" that American troops would be "greeted as liberators" by the Iraqi people.
2003年，副总统迪克·切尼在NBC电视台“会见新闻界”节目上预测美国部队将被伊拉克人民“拥戴成解放者”。
2003Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American, was killed when she was run over by a bulldozer while trying to block Israeli troops from demolishing a Palestinian home in Gaza.
2003年，23岁的美国人若雪·柯利在加沙试图阻止以色列军队拆毁一巴勒斯坦人的家，遭以色列推土机辗死。
2005A judge in Redwood City, Calif., sent Scott Peterson to death row for the slaying of his pregnant wife, Laci.
2005年，斯科特·彼得森因杀害怀孕的妻子莱西被加州雷德伍德城法官判处死刑。
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