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February 12th 1809, Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this Continent a new nation.
1809年2月12日，八十七年前，我们的父辈在这块大陆上创建了一个新的国家。
President Abraham Lincoln who led the divided United States through the Civil War is born in present-day Kentucky.
亚伯拉罕·林肯总统出生在今天的肯塔基州，他带领分裂的美国经历了内战。
Lincoln who opposed slavery signed the Emancipation Proclamation and delivered the Gettysburg Address.
林肯反对奴隶制，他签署了《解放黑人奴隶宣言》，并发表葛底斯堡演讲。
Also that same year, Charles Darwin, the naturalist to develop the theory of evolution by natural selection is born in England.
同一年，博物学家查理斯·达尔文出生在英格兰，他提出了自然选择这一进化论。
1999, in Washington, the Senate acquits President Bill Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice charges over the Monica Lewinsky Scandal.
1999年在华盛顿，关于莫尼卡·莱文斯基丑闻一案，参议院宣判克林顿作伪证，阻碍司法指控不成立。
I want to say again to the American people. How profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did
我想对美国民众再次声明，我对我的言行深感抱歉，
to trigger these events and the great burden they have imposed on the Congress and on the American people.
我的过错导致了诸多事情的发生，让国会和美国民众平添了许多负担。
1909, the NAACP, one of a America's leading civil rights organizations to this day, is founded in New York City.
1909年，全国有色人种协进会在纽约成立，它是当今美国最主要的民权组织之一。
And 2000, Charles Schulz, cartoonist to create Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang, dies in Santa Rosas, California. He was 77.
2000年，漫画家查尔斯·舒尔茨在加州圣罗莎去世，享年77岁，他创作了查理·布朗和史努比，和其它《花生漫画》人物。
Today in History, February 12th. Mike Gracia, the Associated Press.
以上是2月12日《历史上的今天》，美联社麦克·格拉西亚为您播报。
