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October 16th, 1859. An incident that brings America closer to Civil War.
1859年10月16日，一场让美国里内战更进一步的事件。
Abolitionist John Brown's raid on a Federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry in what's now West Virginia, hoping to spark a slave revolt.
废奴主义者约翰·布朗袭击了现位于西弗吉尼亚州哈珀渡口的一个联邦军火库，希望借此引发一场奴隶起义。
Brown later surrenders and is executed.
之后布朗投降并被处决。
1793. During the French Revolution Queen Marie Antoinette
1793年，法国大革命期间，玛丽·安托妮特皇后被斩首，
who was said of toward France starving people:"Let them eat cake" is beheaded.
她曾对法国饥民说：“‘让他们吃蛋糕吧。”
1978. The Roman Catholic Church chooses its first non-Italian Pope in more than 450 years.
1978年，罗马天主教会选出了450多年来首位非意大利籍教皇。
He is Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla who takes the name of John Paul II.
他是波兰红衣主教卡罗尔·沃伊蒂拉，他的名字是约翰·保罗二世。
1973. American Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1973年，美国人亨利·基辛格和北越黎德寿获诺贝尔和平奖。
They are honored for negotiating a cease-fire in the Vietnam War.
他们因在越南战争中通过谈判达成停火协议而获奖。
But Le declines the award saying he cannot accept because the Vietnamese don't have peace.
但黎德寿拒绝了并称越南人民没有得到和平，所以他不能接受该奖。
1998. In London British police arrest Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet.
1998年，在伦敦，英国警察逮捕智利前独裁者奥古斯托·皮诺切特。
They detained him for questioning about the allegations that he has murdered Spanish citizens during his years in power.
他们拘留了他，并就有关他在执政期间谋杀西班牙公民的指控进行讯问。
Pinochet eventually returns to Chile but he faces investigations and court cases there until he dies 8 years later.
皮诺切特最后回到智利，但他在智利面临调查和法庭案件，直到8年后去世。
1916. Margaret Sanger opens the first birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, New York.
1916年，玛格丽特·桑格在纽约布鲁克林开设了第一家节育诊所。
She is late arrested and serves 30 days in jail after police raid the clinic.
在警方突袭诊所后，她被捕，被判入狱30天。
1987. End of a 58-and-a-half-hour drama in Midland, Texas.
1987年，发生在德州米德兰的一场58个半小时的戏剧收场。
That's where rescuers free Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl trapped in an abandoned well.
救援人员在那里救出了被困在一口废弃井中的18个月大的女孩杰西卡·麦克卢尔。
And 1997. Novelist James Michener whose South Pacific tales inspired Broadway musical, dies in Austin, Texas.
1997年，小说家詹姆斯·米切纳在德克萨斯州奥斯汀去世，他的作品《南太平洋》激发了百老汇音乐剧的灵感。
Today in History, August 16th, Tim Maguire, the Associate Press.
以上是10月16日《历史上的今天》，美联社蒂姆·马奎尔为您播报。
