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May, 31st, 1889. In one of America's worst natural disasters, water sweeps through Johnstown, Pennsylvania after a dam breaks.
1889年5月31日，美国最严重自然灾害之一，大坝崩塌，洪水席卷宾夕法尼亚州约翰斯敦。
The flood kills more than 22 hundred people and destroys more than 16 hundred homes.
2200多人在这场洪水中丧生，超过1600所房屋被摧毁。
1962. In Israel, former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann is hanged for his role in the Holocaust that killed six million Jews during World War Two.
1962年，在以色列，前纳粹高官阿道夫·艾希曼因其在二战大屠杀中所犯下的罪行而被绞死，在此大屠杀中，6百万犹太人遇害。
1819. Walt Whitman, the poet and essayist whose works include "Leaves of Grass", is born on New York's Long Island.
1819年，诗人、散文家沃尔特·惠特曼在纽约长岛出生，他的作品包括《草叶集》。
2003. Eric Rudolph, wanted for years for a series of deadly bombings in the South, is arrested outside a grocery store in rural North Carolina.
2003年，因在南方制造一系列致命爆炸而被通缉多年的埃里克·鲁道夫在北卡罗来纳乡下的一家杂货店外被捕。
Rudolph, an anti-government extremist, gets life behind bars after pleading guilty to the bombings, including the Atlanta Olympic Park blast.
鲁道夫是一名反政府极端分子，他对包括亚特兰大奥体公园爆炸在内的一系列爆炸事件供认不讳，随后被判终身监禁。
And 1930. Clint Eastwood, actor, and an Oscar-winning director and producer, is born in San Francisco.
1930年，演员、奥斯卡获奖最佳导演兼制片人克林特·伊斯特伍德在旧金山出生。
His work on both sides of the camera includes "the Dirty Harry movies", "Unforgiven", "Mystic River", "Million Dollar Baby",
他在银幕前后的作品包括《肮脏的哈里》、《不可饶恕》、《神秘河》、《百万美元宝贝》
and two films about the Battle of Iwo Jima.
以及两部关于硫磺岛战役的电影。
Today in History, May 31th, Ross Simpson, the Associated Press.
以上是5月31日《历史上的今天》，美联社罗斯·辛普森为您播报。
