November 21st, 1877. Inventor Thomas Edison announces the invention of the phonograph, after testing the device by reciting a nursery rhyme.
1877年11月21日,通过背诵一首儿歌的方式对设备进行测试后,发明家托马斯·爱迪生宣布发明了留声机。
1973. President Richard Nixon's attorney reveals a White House tape recording related to the Watergate scandal contains an 18-and-a-half minute gap.
1973年,理查德·尼克松总统的律师透露,一份和水门丑闻相关的白宫录音中有18分半钟的空白。
Experts who later study the damaged tape find evidence of several deliberate erasures. Nixon resigns from office the following year.
此后研究录音带的专家发现了几处故意擦除痕迹的证据。第二年,尼克松离职。
2001. In a case that baffles investigators, Ottilie Lundgren, a 94-year-old woman in Connecticut, dies of inhalation anthrax.
2001年,在一起令调查人员困惑的案件中,康涅狄格州的一位名为奥蒂莉·朗格伦的94岁女性死于吸入性炭疽热。
She's the fifth and final victim of the anthrax scare following the September 11th attacks.
她是911事件后,炭疽恐慌事件的第五位,也是最后一位受害者。
1985. Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, is arrested, accused of spying for Israel.
1985年,前美国海军情报分析师乔纳森·波拉德因被控为以色列从事间谍活动而被捕。
Pollard later pleads guilty and is sentenced to life in prison.
而后波拉德认罪并被判终身监禁。
And 1934. In New York, the Cole Porter musical "Anything Goes", starring Ethel Merman, opens on Broadway.
1934年,在纽约,科尔·波特的音乐剧《Anything Goes》在百老汇上演,该剧由艾索尔·摩曼主演。
Today in History, November 21st, Shelly Smith, the Associate Press.
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