June 25th 1950. In Asia, war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula as forces from the communist North invade the non-communist South.
1950年6月25日,共产主义朝鲜入侵非共产主义韩国,朝鲜半岛爆发战争。
United States soon joins the fighting on the side of South Korea. President Harry Truman:
很快美国便加入战争支持韩国。哈里·杜鲁门:
Korea is a small county, thousands of miles away, but what is happening there is important to every American.
韩国是一个小国家,与美国千里之隔,但那里发生的事情对每个美国人都很重要。
1876. In Montana, the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
1876年,在蒙大纳,小大角战役。
That's where Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his Seventh Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians.
在那里,陆军中校乔治·阿姆斯特朗·卡斯特及其第七骑兵团被苏族及夏延族印第安人消灭。
1973. On Capitol Hill, former White House Counsel John Dean begins testifying before the Senate panel investigating the Watergate scandal.
1973年,在美国国会山,前白宫顾问约翰·迪安在参议员调查组调查水门丑闻前出庭作证。
"I begin by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency
“开始我告诉总统,在他总统任期内,有一个肿瘤在日益增长
and if the cancer was not removed, the president himself will be killed by it."
如果不切除这块肿瘤,那么总统会被它害死。”
The scandal forces Richard Nixon to become the first president to resign the following year.
这起丑闻迫使理查德·尼克松成为首位第二年辞职的总统。
1903. George Orwell, the author whose novels include Animal Farm and 1984 is born Eric Blair in Bengal, India.
1903年,小说《动物农场》以及《1984》的作者乔治·奥威尔在印度孟加拉出生,本名埃里克·布莱尔。
And 1997. Jacques Cousteau, the underwater explorer and filmmaker dies in Paris at age 87.
1977年,海底探险家兼电影制片人雅克-伊夫·库斯托在巴黎去世,年87岁。
Today in History, June 25th, Tim Maguire, the Associated Press.
以上是6月25日《历史上的今天》,美联社蒂姆·马奎尔为您播报。