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July 16th 1945. The world's first test of the nuclear weapon as the United States explodes an atomic bomb in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1945年7月16日,全球首次核武器试验 。美国在新墨西哥阿拉莫戈多附近的沙漠引爆一枚原子弹 。
Weeks later, the US drops atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing WWII to an end.
几周后,美国向日本广岛和长崎投下原子弹,将二战引向终点 。
1973. On Capitol Hill, former White House aide Alexander Butterfield reveals President Richard Nixon's secret taping system.
1973年,在国会山,前白宫副官亚力山大·巴特菲尔德揭露了理查德·尼克松总统的秘密磁带录音系统 。
The disclosure during Senate hearings probing the Watergate Scandal plays a pivotal role in Nixon's resignation the following year.
他在水门丑闻参议院听证会上揭露此事,而此次揭发在来年尼克松辞职事件中起到了关键作用 。
1999. "I've fought the good fight, I've finished the course, I've kept the faith."
1999年,“我打了漂亮的一场仗,我完成了人生的旅途,我始终坚持着自己的信仰 。”
John F Kennedy, Jr., son of America's 35th president dies when the plane he is piloting plunges into the Atlantic Ocean.
美国第35届总统的儿子小约翰·F·肯尼迪去世,当时他驾驶的飞机坠落大西洋中 。
Kennedy's wife Carolyn and her sister Lauren Bessette are also on board and killed in the crash off Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
肯尼迪的妻子卡罗琳和姐姐劳伦·贝塞特也在飞机上,均在马萨诸塞州马撒葡萄园岛坠机中遇难 。
2004. Martha Stewart is sentenced to 5 months in prison and 5 months of home confinement by a federal judge in New York for lying about stock sale.
2004年,因谎报股票销售,纽约一名联邦法官判处玛莎·斯图尔特5个月刑期以及5个月的家庭监禁 。
And 1969. Apollo 11 lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon.
1969年,阿波罗11号从佛罗里达肯尼迪航天中心起飞飞向月球表面 。这是人类第一次登月任务 。
Today in History, July 16th, Ross Simpson, the Associated Press.
以上是7月16日《历史上的今天》,美联社罗斯·辛普森为您播报 。