(单词翻译:单击)
April 15th, 1912, just hours after hitting an iceberg, the Titanic sinks off the coast of Newfoundland.
1912年4月15日，撞到冰山仅几小时后，泰坦尼克号沉入纽芬兰海岸。
About 1,500 people on board the British luxury liner perish in the waters of the icy North Atlantic.
这艘英国豪华游轮上的约1500人葬身北大西洋冰冷的海水之中。
1865, President Abraham Lincoln dies in Washington, hours after John Wilkes Booth shoots and mortally wounds him at Ford's Theater.
1865年，亚伯拉罕·林肯总统在福特剧院遭到约翰·威尔克斯·布斯刺杀并严重受伤，几小时后，总统在华盛顿逝世。
Vice President Andrew Johnson succeeds Lincoln in the White House.
副总统安德鲁·约翰逊接任林肯成为总统。
1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball.
1947年，杰基·罗宾森成为职业棒球大联盟中的首位非洲裔美国球员。
His debut with Brooklyn Dodgers shatters baseball's decades-old racial barrier.
他在洛杉矶道奇的首次登场粉碎了棒球界数十年来的种族障碍。
1986, the United States launches an air raid against Libya in response to the bombing of a disco in what's then West Berlin, Germany.
1986年，美国对利比亚发动空袭，以此回应当时德国西柏林一家迪斯科舞厅的爆炸事件。
Libya says 37 people, mostly civilians, are killed in the raid.
利比亚表示在空袭中，有37人死亡，其中大部分是平民。
1998, Pol Pot, leader of the Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, dies of natural causes along the border with Thailand at age 73.
1998年，柬埔寨红色高棉党领导人由于自然因素在泰国边界去世，享年73岁。
He evades prosecution for the deaths of 2 million Cambodians under his brutal regime during the 1970s.
1970年代，有两百万柬埔寨人死于他的暴政之下，而他逃避了这项起诉。
And 2001, In New York, punk rocker Joey Ramone, lead singer of the Ramone dies of lymphoma at age 49.
2001年，在纽约，49岁的朋克摇滚歌手乔依·雷蒙，the Ramones乐队主唱死于淋巴瘤。
Today in History, April 15th. Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.
以上是4月15日《历史上的今天》，美联社桑迪· 科泽尔为您播报。
