Today in History: Monday, January 21, 2013
历史上的今天:2013年1月21日,星期一
On Jan. 21, 1793, France's King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine.
1793年1月21日,法国国王路易十六因叛国罪被处死在断头台。
1861 Five Southerners resigned from the U.S. Senate, including Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, the future president of the Confederacy.
1861年,包括密西西比杰斐逊·戴维斯在内的五个南方人从美国参议院辞职,后来杰斐逊成了南部邦联总统。
1915 The first Kiwanis Club was founded, in Detroit.
1915年,第一个基瓦尼俱乐部在底特律成立。
1924 Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died of a stroke at age 53.
1924年,俄国革命先驱弗·伊·列宁死于中风,享年53岁。
1950 A federal jury in New York City found former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury.
1950年,纽约一联邦陪审团发现前国务院官员阿尔杰·希斯犯有伪证罪。
1954 The first atomic submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched at Groton, Conn.
1954年,第一艘核潜艇鹦鹉螺号在美国康涅狄格州格罗顿启动。
1976 The supersonic Concorde jet was put into service by Britain and France.
1976年,协和式超音速飞机在英法投入服役。
1977 President Jimmy Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.
1977年,卡特总统赦免几乎所有越战是的逃避兵役者。
1997 Speaker Newt Gingrich was reprimanded and fined as the House voted for first time in history to discipline its leader for ethical misconduct.
1997年,议长纽特·金里奇遭谴责并被罚款,这是众议院投票史上第一次因道德违纪处罚领导人。
1998 Pope John Paul II began his first visit to Cuba.
1998年,教皇约翰·保罗二世开始了他的首次古巴访问。
2003 The Census Bureau announced that Hispanics had surpassed blacks as America's largest minority group.
2003年,美国人口普查局宣布作为美国最大的少数民族,拉美裔人超过了黑人。
2004 The recording industry sued 532 computer users it said were illegally distributing songs over the Internet.
2004年,唱片业起诉532名计算机用户,控告他们通过互联网非法传播歌曲。
2010 A bitterly divided Supreme Court, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, vastly increased the power of big business and labor unions to influence government decisions by freeing them to spend their millions directly to sway elections for president and Congress.
2010年,一个出现严重分裂的最高法院,在市民联盟诉联邦选举委员会,大大增加了大企业的力量和工会来影响政府决策通过释放他们花费数百万直接影响选举总统和国会。
2010 Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards finally admitted fathering a child during an affair before his second White House bid.
2010年,前民主党总统候选人约翰·爱德华兹在第二次参选总统前承认因一段外遇生育了一孩子。