Today in History: Monday, April 15, 2013
历史上的今天:2013年4月14日,星期一
April 15th, 1912, just hours after hitting an iceberg, the Titanic sinks off the coast of Newfoundland. About 1,500 people on board the British luxury liner perish in the waters of the icy North Atlantic.
1912年4月15日,泰坦尼克号在纽芬兰海岸附近撞上冰山仅数小时后沉入海底。船上约1500名乘客丧命于冰冷的北大西洋。
1865, President Abraham Lincoln dies in Washington, hours after John Wilkes Booth shoots and mortally wounds him at Ford’s Theater. Vice President Andrew Johnson succeeds Lincoln in the White House.
1865年,亚伯拉罕·林肯总统在华盛顿福特剧院遭约翰·威尔克斯·布斯射杀,数小时后因致命伤去世。副总统安德鲁·约翰逊在白宫接任林肯。
1947, “Did you see Jackie Robinson hit that ball?It went zoomin cross the left field wall. Yeah boy, yes, yes. Jackie hit that ball.”Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American player in major league baseball. His debut with Brooklyn Dodgers shatters baseball’s decades-old racial barrier.
1947年,“你有没有看到杰基·罗宾森击中球吗?它穿过了左外场。男孩,是的,是的,杰基击中了球。”杰基·罗宾逊成为第一位非裔美国职业棒球大联盟球员。他在布鲁克林道奇队首次打破棒球史上几十年的种族隔阂。
1986, the United States launches an air raid against Libya in response to the bombing of a disco in what’s then West Berlin, Germany. Libya says 37 people, mostly civilians, are killed in the raid.
1986年,因利比亚轰炸当时德国西柏林的一迪斯科厅,美国对其发动空袭。利比亚称空袭造成37人死亡,其中大部分是平民。
1998, Pol Pot, leader of the Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, dies of natural causes along the border with Thailand at age 73. He evades prosecution for the deaths of 2 million Cambodians under his brutal regime during the 1970s.
1998年,柬埔寨红色高棉党领袖波尔布特在泰国交界处死于自然因素,享年73岁。20世纪70年代柬埔寨在他的暴政统治下,有200多万人死去,他因遭控告而逃离。
And 2001,“Twenty twenty four hours to go, I wanna be sedated.”In New York, punk rocker Joey Ramone, lead singer of the Ramones, dies of lymphoma at age 49.
2001年,在纽约,朋克摇滚主唱乔伊·雷蒙死于淋巴瘤,时年49岁。
Today in History, April 15th. Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.
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