(单词翻译:单击)
Today in History: Sunday, August 12, 2012
历史上的今天:2012年8月12日
On Aug. 12, 1985, a crippled Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 on a domestic flight crashed into a mountain, killing 520 people in the world's worst single-aircraft accident.
1985年8月12日,日本航空公司波音747飞机在国内航班因失灵撞山坠毁,造成520人死亡,这是世界上最严重的单起飞机事故。
1851 Isaac Singer was granted a patent on his sewing machine.
1851年,Isaac Singer的缝纫机被授予专利。
1880 Baseball Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson was born in Factoryville, Pa.
1880年,棒球名人堂克里斯蒂•马修森出生在法克特里维尔出生。
1898 The peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
1898年,美西签署和平停战协议。
1898 Hawaii was formally annexed to the United States.
1898年,美国正式吞并夏威夷。
1944 Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed when an explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England during World War II.
1944年,二战期间一架装有炸药的海军飞机轰炸英国,约瑟夫和罗斯的长子约瑟夫·肯尼迪遇难。
1953 The Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.
1953年,苏联对其第一颗氢弹进行秘密测试。
1960 The first balloon satellite, Echo 1, was launched by the United States from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
1960年第一个气球卫星回声一号由美国在卡纳维尔角发射。
1966 John Lennon apologized at a news conference in Chicago for saying "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus."
1966年,约翰·列侬在芝加哥的一场新闻发布会上对自己的言论“披头士是比耶稣更有名”道歉。
1977 The space shuttle Enterprise passed its first solo flight test by taking off atop a Boeing 747, separating and then touching down in California's Mojave Desert.
1977年,航天飞机公司通过了首次单独飞行测试,在一架波音747上起飞,分离,然后着陆在加利福尼亚的莫哈韦沙漠。
1981 IBM introduced its first personal computer, the model 5150.
1981年,IBM推出它的第一台个人电脑,型号5150。
1998 Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion as restitution to Holocaust survivors to settle claims for their assets.
1998年,瑞士银行同意支付12.5亿美元对大屠杀幸存者补偿以解决财产索赔。
2000 The Russian nuclear submarine Kursk and its 118-man crew were lost during naval exercises in the Barents Sea.
2000年,俄罗斯核潜艇Kursk和118名船员在巴伦支海军事演习时神秘失踪。
2004 New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey announced his resignation and proclaimed himself "a gay American."
2004年,新泽西州州长詹姆斯·麦格瑞维宣布辞职,声明自己是“美国同性恋者”。
2004 The California Supreme Court voided the nearly 4,000 same-sex marriages sanctioned in San Francisco earlier in the year.
2004年,加州最高法院驳回了今年早些时候旧金山批准的近4000对同性婚姻。
2008 Russia halted its devastating five-day assault on Georgia that left homes in smoldering ruins and uprooted 100,000 people.
2008年,俄罗斯结束了对格鲁吉亚为期五天的毁灭性打击,格鲁吉亚家园变成闷烧的废墟,100,000人流离失所。
