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December 26th, 2004. A tsunami kills more than 200,000 people, most of them in Southern Asia and leaves tens of thousands more missing.
2004年12月26日，一场海啸夺去了20多万人的生命，其中大部分都是南亚人，还有数万人失踪。
Among the countries' hardest hit by the deadly waves, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand.
受灾最严重的国家包括印度尼西亚、斯里兰卡、印度和泰国。
The tsunami was triggered by the world's most powerful earthquake in 40 years beneath the Indian Ocean.
这次海啸是由印度洋海底40年来最强烈的地震引发的。
1996. Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado.
1996年，6岁的选美皇后琼贝妮特·拉姆齐被发现在科罗拉多博尔得家中的地下室里遭殴打并被勒死。
Ten years later, John Mark Karr is arrested in Thailand and called a suspect in JonBenet's Murder.
十年后，约翰·马克·卡尔在泰国被捕，他被称为是琼贝尼谋杀案的嫌疑犯。
But DNA evidence later clears Karr and the slaying remains unsolved.
但DNA证据后来证明卡尔无罪，而这起凶杀案仍未解决。
1941. In Washington, Winston Churchill becomes the first British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.
1941年，在华盛顿，温斯顿·丘吉尔成为第一位在美国国会联席会议上发表演讲的英国首相。
Churchill, whose mother was American, visited Capitol Hill just weeks after the U.S. entered World War II.
丘吉尔的母亲是美国人，他在美国加入第二次世界大战几周后访问了国会山。
"If my father had been an American and my mother British, instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own."
“如果我的父亲是美国人，我的母亲是英国人，我可能会独自来到这里。”
1972. Harry S. Truman, a 33rd President of the United States, dies at age 88.
1972年，美国第33任总统哈里·S·杜鲁门去世，年88岁。
2006. Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States, dies at age 93.
2006年，美国第38任总统杰拉尔德·福特去世，年93岁。
And 1944. The first public performance of Tennessee Williams's play, The Glass Menagerie, takes place in Chicago.
1944年，田纳西·威廉姆斯的戏剧《玻璃动物园》的首次公开演出在芝加哥举行。
Today in History, December 26th, Ross Simpson, the Associated Press.
以上是12月26日《历史上的今天》，美联社罗斯·辛普森为您播报。
