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Today in History: Wednesday, December 19, 2012
历史上的今天：2012年12月19日，星期三
On Dec. 19, 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives for perjury and obstruction of justice. (He was later acquitted by the Senate.)
1998年12月19日,总统比尔·克林顿因伪证并妨碍司法公正被众议院弹劾。(后来他被参议院宣判无罪。)
1732 Benjamin Franklin began publishing "Poor Richard's Almanac."
1732年，本杰明·富兰克林开始发行他的“穷理查年鉴”
1776 Thomas Paine published his first "American Crisis" essay, writing: "These are the times that try men's souls."
1776年，托马斯·潘恩发表了他的第一篇“美国危机”文章，他写道:“总有一些时刻考验人们的灵魂。”
1777 Gen. George Washington led his army of about 11,000 men to Valley Forge, Pa., to camp for the winter.
1777年，乔治·华盛顿将军率领11，000军队来到宾夕法尼亚福吉谷过冬。
1843 Charles Dickens' Yuletide tale, "A Christmas Carol," was first published in Britain.
1843年，查尔斯·狄更斯的圣诞故事《圣诞颂歌》首次在英国出版。
1907 A coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pa., killed 239 workers.
1907年，宾夕法尼亚发生一起煤矿爆炸，239名工人遇难。
1946 War broke out in Indochina as troops under Ho Chi Minh launched widespread attacks against the French.
1946年，胡志明领导的军队对法国开始大规模进攻，印度支那半岛战争爆发。
1972 Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.
1972年，阿波罗17号落在在太平洋，结束了阿波罗载人登月计划。
1974 Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as vice president, replacing Gerald R. Ford, who became president when Richard M. Nixon resigned.
1974年，纳尔逊A.洛克菲勒取代杰拉尔德·福特宣誓就任副总统，当理查德·尼克松辞职时杰拉尔德·福特当选总统。
1984 Britain and China signed an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
1984年，英国和中国签署协议于1997年将香港归还中国。
1986 The Soviet Union announced it had freed dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile and pardoned his wife, Yelena Bonner.
1986年，苏联宣布已经解除对不同政见者安德烈·萨哈罗夫国内流放并赦免了他的妻子叶连娜·邦纳。
1997 "Titanic," the second highest-grossing movie of all-time, opened in American theaters.
1997年，史上第二大票房电影《泰坦尼克号》在美国上映。
2000 The U.N. Security Council voted to impose broad sanctions on Afghanistan's Taliban rulers unless they closed terrorist training camps and surrendered U.S. embassy bombing suspect Osama bin Laden.
2000年，联合国安全理事会投票决定对阿富汗塔利班统治者实施广泛制裁，除非他们关闭恐怖分子训练营并交出美国大使馆爆炸案嫌疑人奥萨马·本拉登。
2003 Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi agreed to halt his nation's drive to develop nuclear and chemical weapons.
2003年，利比亚领导人卡扎菲同意停止国家开发核武器和化学武器。
2005 Afghanistan's first democratically elected parliament in more than three decades convened.
2005年，阿富汗召开三十多年以来的首次民选议会。
