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August 11th 1965. In Los Angeles, 6 days of deadly rioting and looting erupt in the predominantly black section of Watts.
1965年8月11日，在洛杉矶，瓦茨主要黑人区爆发了6天的暴乱和洗劫。
34 people are killed, more than a thousand others are injured and hundreds of buildings are devastated before order is restored.
恢复秩序之前，34人遇害，一千多人受伤，数百栋建筑被摧毁。
It's a turning point for America's civil rights movement as peaceful protestors in the South give way to violent clashes in the nation's major cities.
这是美国民权运动的转折点，南方和平抗议者向美国大城市的暴力冲突屈服。
1984. A joke by President Ronald Reagan during a voice test for a paid political radio address causes a Cold War flap:
1984年，罗纳德·里根总统在一次有偿政治广播演讲的试音中讲的一个笑话挑拨了冷战的神经：
"All right, my fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes."
“好了，同胞们，很高兴告诉你们，我刚刚签署了法令，永久的取缔俄国，轰炸5分钟后开始。”
1992. The Mall of America, at the time the biggest indoor mall in the United States and still one of the nation's largest opens in Bloomington, Minnesota.
1992年，位于明尼苏达州布卢明顿的美国商城，那时这是美国最大的室内商场，现在仍是这个国家最大场地之一。
1921. Alex Haley, author of Roots -- the African-American family saga that became a hit TV mini-series, is born in Ithaca, New York.
1921年，《根》（非裔美国家庭的传奇故事，后来成为热播迷你剧）的作者亚历克斯·哈利在纽约伊萨卡出生。
And 1956. Abstract painter Jackson Pollock dies in an auto accident on New York's Long Island. He was 44.
1956年，抽象派画家杰克逊·波洛克在纽约长岛的一场车祸中去世，年44岁。
Today in History, August 11th Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.
以上是8月11日《历史上的今天》，美联社卡米尔·博汉农为您播报。
