April 25th, 1874. Radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi is born in Bologna, Italy.
1874年4月25日,无线电设备先驱古列尔莫·马可尼在意大利博洛尼亚出生。
1507. America gets its name, nearly fifteen years after Christopher Columbus' first voyage to the New World.
1507年,在克里斯多弗·哥伦布首次航行前往新世界的近15年后,美国有了自己的名字。
A German cartographer first uses the term on a world map to refer to the huge land mass in the Western Hemisphere.
一名德国制图家首次在世界地图上使用美国这个词指代西半球这片广阔的土地。
The name is in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian navigator.
该名字是向意大利航海家亚美利哥·韦斯普奇致敬。
1945. During WWII, American and Soviet troops in Europe meet on the Elbe River.
1945年,二战期间,美国和苏联聚堆在欧洲的易北河汇合。
It's a sign that the collapse of Nazi Germany and the end of the war in Europe are near.
这预示着纳粹德国的瓦解以及欧洲战场战争的结束即将来临。
1990. "Our first of NASA's great observatories is now on station at 330 nautical miles above the earth."
1990年,“美国国家宇航局的第一个伟大天文台现在已布置在距离地球330海里的太空站之中。”
Space Shuttle Discovery deploys the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit around the Earth.
发现号宇宙飞船将哈勃太空望远镜布置在地球周围的轨道内。
And 1918. Ella Fitzgerald, one of the great jazz singers of the 20th Century, is born in Newport News, Virginia.
1918年,二十世纪伟大的爵士歌手之一艾拉·费兹杰拉在弗吉尼亚州纽波特纽斯出生。
Today in History, April 25th, Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.
以上是4月25日《历史上的今天》,美联社桑迪·科泽尔为您播报。