Today in History: Friday, February 22, 2013
历史上的今天:2013年2月22日,星期五
On Feb. 22, 1732, George Washington, the first president of the United States, was born in the Virginia Colony.
1732年2月22日,美国第一任总统乔治·华盛顿在弗吉尼亚殖民地出生。
1819 Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
1819年,西班牙将佛罗里达州割让给美国。
1862 Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as president of the Confederacy.
1862年,杰弗逊·戴维斯宣誓就任联盟总统。
1865 Tennessee adopted a new constitution abolishing slavery.
1865年,田纳西采用废除奴隶制度的新宪法。
1879 Frank Winfield Woolworth opened a five-cent store in Utica, N.Y.
1879年,弗兰克·温菲尔德·伍尔沃斯在纽约开了一家5美分商店。
1924 Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House.
1924年,卡尔文·柯立芝总统第一次从白宫发表广播。
1932 Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., was born in Boston, the youngest child of Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy.
1932年,参议员爱德华·肯尼迪在波士顿出生,他是约瑟夫·肯尼迪和萝丝肯尼迪最小的儿子。
1935 It became illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House.
1935年,飞机飞越白宫构成违法。
1959 The inaugural Daytona 500 race was held in Daytona Beach, Fla.
1959年,首届代托纳500汽车赛在佛罗里达代托纳海滩举行。
1980 The U.S. hockey team beat the Soviets 4-3 In a stunning upset at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y.
1980年,在纽约普莱西德湖冬奥会上,美国曲棍球队以4 - 3意外击败苏联队。
2001 A U.N. war crimes tribunal convicted three Bosnian Serbs on charges of rape and torture in the first case of wartime sexual enslavement to go before an international court.
2001年,在移交国际法庭前,联合国战争罪法庭判三个波黑塞族人强奸和折磨罪,这是战时性奴隶的首例案件。
2006 Insurgents destroyed the golden dome of one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines, the Askariya mosque in Samarra, setting off a spasm of sectarian violence.
2006年,叛乱分子摧毁了伊拉克什叶派最神圣的阿里·哈迪清真寺的黄金圆顶,此举引发了一阵宗派暴力。
2013 A magnitude-6.1 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, killed 184 people.
2013年,新西兰克莱斯特彻奇发生6.1级地震,造成184人死亡。
2013 Somali pirates shot to death four Americans taken hostage on their yacht several hundred miles south of Oman.
2013年,在阿曼以南数百里处,索马里海盗枪杀了劫持在游艇上的四名美国人。