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Today in History: Wednesday, November 21, 2012
历史上的今天:2012年11月21日,周三
On Nov. 21, 1877, inventor Thomas A. Edison unveiled the phonograph.
1877年11月21日,发明家托马斯·爱迪生将他发明的留声机公之于众 。
1789 North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1789年,北卡罗来纳州成为认同美国宪法的第十二个州 。
1922 Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.
1922年,格鲁吉亚丽贝卡·费尔顿宣誓成为第一位效力美国参议院妇女 。
1969 The Senate voted down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth.
1969年,参议院投票否决Clement F.Haynsworth最高法院大法官的提名 。
1973 President Richard Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed the existence of an 18 1/2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
1973年,理查德·尼克松总统的律师J.Fred Buzhardt揭示了一有关水门事件的白宫录音带存在18分30秒的间断 。
1980 A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas killed 87 people.
1980年,拉斯维加斯米高梅豪华酒店的大火造成87人死亡 。
1985 Former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested, accused of spying for Israel. (He later pleaded guilty and is serving a life sentence.)
1985年,前美国海军情报分析员乔纳森·杰伊·波拉德因被指控为以色列从事间谍活动而被逮捕 。(随后他认罪,被判终身监禁 。)
1989 The proceedings of Britain's House of Commons were televised live for the first time.
1989年,英国下议院会议记录第一次电视直播 。
1991 The U.N. Security Council chose Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt to be secretary-general.
1991年,联合国安理会选择埃及Boutros Boutros-Ghali担任秘书长 。
1995 The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 5,000 for the first time.
1995年,道琼斯工业平均指数首次收于5000点以上 。
2000 The Florida Supreme Court granted Democrat Al Gore's request to keep the presidential election recount going.
2000年,佛罗里达州最高法院同意民主党戈尔的要求保持总统大选重新计票 。
2001 A 94-year-old Connecticut woman died of inhalation anthrax, the last of five people killed in the anthrax attacks.
2001年,一位94岁的康涅狄格女人死于吸入炭疽,这是死于炭疽袭击五人众的最后一个 。
2002 NATO invited seven former communist countries to join the alliance: Slovenia, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Bulgaria.
2002年,北约邀请七个前共产主义国家加入该联盟,分别是:斯洛文尼亚、斯洛伐克、爱沙尼亚、拉脱维亚、立陶宛、罗马尼亚和保加利亚 。
2004 The NBA suspended Indiana's Ron Artest for the rest of the season following a brawl in the stands during a game against the Detroit Pistons.
2004年,NBA因阿泰斯特在对阵底特律活塞队比赛中斗殴取消其剩下赛季的比赛 。
2005 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon broke away from the hardline Likud with the intention of forming a new party.
2005年,以色列总理沙龙挣脱了强硬的利库德集团并打算组建一个新党派 。
2007 Officials announced the recall of more than a half-million pieces of Chinese-made children's jewelry contaminated with lead.
2007名,官员宣布召中国制造的铅污染含量过高的儿童饰品 。
2010 Debt-struck Ireland applied for a massive EU-IMF loan to stem the flight of capital from its banks.
2010年,遭债务困扰的爱尔兰申请大量欧盟与国际货币基金组织贷款,以遏制其银行资金外流 。
