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Today in History: Saturday, November 03, 2012
历史上的今天:2012年11月3日,周六
On Nov. 3, 1868, Republican Ulysses S. Grant won the presidential election over Democrat Horatio Seymour.
1868年11月3日,共和党尤利西斯S.格兰特击败霍雷肖西摩赢得总统选举 。
1839 The first Opium War between China and Britain broke out.
1839年,中英第一次鸦片战争爆发 。
1903 Panama proclaimed its independence from Colombia.
1903年,巴拿马宣布从哥伦比亚独立 。
1908 Republican William Howard Taft was elected president, outpolling William Jennings Bryan.
1908年,共和党威廉霍华德塔夫选票超过威廉·詹宁斯·布赖恩当选美国总统 。
1911 The Chevrolet Motor Car Co. was founded in Detroit by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant.
1911年,路易斯雪佛兰和威廉C.杜兰特在底特律创立雪佛兰汽车公司 。
1936 President Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected in a landslide over Republican Alfred M. "Alf" Landon.
1936年,美国总统富兰克林·罗斯福压倒性击败共和党人艾尔弗雷德·阿尔夫·兰登再次当选美国总统 。
1957 The Soviet Union launched into orbit Sputnik 2, the second manmade satellite; a dog on board named Laika was sacrificed in the experiment.
1957年,苏联发射人造卫星2号进入轨道,董事会一只名叫Laika的狗在实验中牺牲 。
1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson soundly defeated Republican challenger Barry Goldwater to win a White House term in his own right.
1964年,林登·约翰逊总统凭借自己的努力彻底打败的共和党挑战者巴里·戈德华特赢得白宫任期 。
1970 Salvador Allende was inaugurated as president of Chile.
1970年,萨尔瓦多·阿连德就职智利总统 。
1986 A Lebanese magazine broke the story of U.S. arms sales to Iran, a revelation that escalated into the Iran-Contra affair.
1986年,一黎巴嫩杂志爆料了美国向伊朗销售军火,揭露升级为伊朗军售事件 。
1992 Democrat Bill Clinton was elected the 42nd president of the United States, defeating President George H.W. Bush.
1992年,民主党人比尔·克林顿击败老布什当选美国第42任总统 。
1992 Illinois Democrat Carol Moseley-Braun became the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
1992年,伊利诺伊州民主党人卡罗·摩斯里·布朗成为第一位当选美国参议院的非裔妇女 。
2004 Hamid Karzai was declared the winner of Afghanistan's first-ever presidential election.
2004年,卡尔扎伊宣布赢得阿富汗首次总统选举 。
2005 Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, pleaded not guilty to a five-count felony indictment in the CIA leak case. (Libby was convicted, but President George W. Bush commuted his 30-month prison sentence.)
2005年,美国副总统切尼的前办公室主任I. Lewis“Scooter”Libby不承认五项涉及中情局泄密案的重罪指控 。
2009 Maine residents narrowly voted down a same-sex marriage law.
2009年,缅甸人民以微弱的优势投票否决了一项同性婚姻法律 。
2010 The Federal Reserve announced a plan to buy $600 billion in Treasury bonds over the next eight months in an attempt to boost lending and stimulate economy.
2010年,美国联邦储备委员会宣布了一项计划,在接下来的八个月里购买6000亿美元的国债试图推动贷款并刺激经济 。
