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July 16th 1945. The world's first test of the nuclear weapon as the United States explodes an atomic bomb in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1945年7月16日，全球首次核武器试验。美国在新墨西哥阿拉莫戈多附近的沙漠引爆一枚原子弹。
Weeks later, the US drops atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing WWII to an end.
几周后，美国向日本广岛和长崎投下原子弹，将二战引向终点。
1973. On Capitol Hill, former White House aide Alexander Butterfield reveals President Richard Nixon's secret taping system.
1973年，在国会山，前白宫副官亚力山大·巴特菲尔德揭露了理查德·尼克松总统的秘密磁带录音系统。
The disclosure during Senate hearings probing the Watergate Scandal plays a pivotal role in Nixon's resignation the following year.
他在水门丑闻参议院听证会上揭露此事，而此次揭发在来年尼克松辞职事件中起到了关键作用。
1999. "I've fought the good fight, I've finished the course, I've kept the faith."
1999年，“我打了漂亮的一场仗，我完成了人生的旅途，我始终坚持着自己的信仰。”
John F Kennedy, Jr., son of America's 35th president dies when the plane he is piloting plunges into the Atlantic Ocean.
美国第35届总统的儿子小约翰·F·肯尼迪去世，当时他驾驶的飞机坠落大西洋中。
Kennedy's wife Carolyn and her sister Lauren Bessette are also on board and killed in the crash off Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
肯尼迪的妻子卡罗琳和姐姐劳伦·贝塞特也在飞机上，均在马萨诸塞州马撒葡萄园岛坠机中遇难。
2004. Martha Stewart is sentenced to 5 months in prison and 5 months of home confinement by a federal judge in New York for lying about stock sale.
2004年，因谎报股票销售，纽约一名联邦法官判处玛莎·斯图尔特5个月刑期以及5个月的家庭监禁。
And 1969. Apollo 11 lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon.
1969年，阿波罗11号从佛罗里达肯尼迪航天中心起飞飞向月球表面。这是人类第一次登月任务。
Today in History, July 16th, Ross Simpson, the Associated Press.
以上是7月16日《历史上的今天》，美联社罗斯·辛普森为您播报。
