Today in History: Monday, February 04, 2013
历史上的今天:2013年2月4日,星期一
On Feb. 4, 1801, John Marshall was sworn in as chief justice of the United States.
1801年2月4日,约翰·马歇尔宣誓就任美国首席大法官。
1783 Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War.
1783年,美国革命战争中,英国宣布正式停止敌对行动。
1789 Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.
1789年,选举人一致选择乔治·华盛顿担任美国第一任总统。
1861 Delegates from six southern states met in Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America.
1861年,来自六个南方州的代表在阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利市会见,创建美利坚联盟国。
1913 Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Ala.
1913年,民权先锋罗莎·帕克斯在阿拉巴马州塔斯基吉Rosa Louise McCauley出生。
1938 The Thornton Wilder play "Our Town" opened on Broadway.
1938年,桑顿·怀尔德的戏剧《我们小镇》在百老汇开映。
1941 The United Service Organizations (USO) was formed.
1941年,美国联合服务组织(USO)成立。
1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a wartime conference at Yalta.
1945年,总统弗兰克林D·罗斯福、英国首相温斯顿·丘吉尔和苏联领导人约瑟夫·斯大林在雅尔塔召开战时会议。
1948 The island nation of Ceylon - now Sri Lanka - became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth.
1948年,岛国锡兰(现在的斯里兰卡)从英联邦获得独立统治。
1974 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, Calif., by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
1974年,报纸女继承人帕特里夏·赫斯特在加州伯克利被共生解放军绑架。
1977 The album "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac was released.
1977年,弗利特伍德麦克乐队的专辑《谣言》发布。
1983 Singer Karen Carpenter died at age 32.
1983年,歌手卡伦卡彭特去世,时年32岁。
2000 A coalition government that included Joerg Haider's far-right Freedom Party came to power in Austria, triggering European Union sanctions.
2000年,包括海德的极右翼自由党在内的联合政府在奥地利当权,该举引发欧盟制裁。
2003 Yugoslavia was dissolved and replaced with a loose union of its remaining two republics, Serbia and Montenegro.
2003年,南斯拉夫被解散,取而代之的是两个剩下共和国塞尔维亚和黑山组成的松散联盟。
2004 The Massachusetts high court declared that gays were entitled to marry.
2004年,马萨诸塞州最高法院宣布同性恋结婚合法化。
2004 The social networking website Facebook was launched.
2004年,社交网站Facebook出世。