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Today in History: Monday, August 06, 2012
历史上的今天，2012年8月6号。
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, that instantly killed an estimated 66,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.
1945年8月6日，美国向日本广岛投下一枚原子弹，据估计当场炸死约66,000人，这是人类战争中首次使用核武器。
1825 Upper Peru became the autonomous republic of Bolivia.
1825上秘鲁成立玻利维亚自治共和国。
1890 The electric chair was used for the first time, to execute a convicted murderer at Auburn State Prison in New York.
1890年,在纽约奥本监狱首次使用电椅处决一名谋杀犯。
1890 Hall of fame pitcher Cy Young made his major league debut with the Cleveland Spiders of the National League.
1890年名人堂棒球投手Cy Young首次亮相国家联盟Cleveland Spiders联赛。
1914 Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia, and Serbia declared war against Germany at the outbreak of World War I.
1914年第一次世界大战爆发，奥匈帝国对俄宣战，塞尔维亚对德宣战。
1962 Jamaica became an independent dominion within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1962年牙买加宣告独立，成为英联邦国家。
1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.
1965年林登•约翰逊总统签署《选举权法案》。
1978 Pope Paul VI died at age 80.
1978年教皇保罗六世去世，享年80岁。
2007 The Crandall Canyon Mine in central Utah collapsed, trapping six coal miners. (All six miners died, along with three rescuers.)
2007年,在犹他州中部Crandall Canyon矿井坍塌，六名煤矿工人被困。(六名矿工全部遇难,还包括三名救援人员。)
2008 The government declared that Army scientist Bruce Ivins was solely responsible for the anthrax attacks that killed five in 2001. (Ivins had committed suicide on July 29.)
2008年,政府宣布,军方科学家布鲁斯艾文斯对2001年遭成五人死亡的炭疽菌袭击事件负全部责任。(埃文斯于7月29日自杀)。
2008 A U.S. military jury convicted Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, of supporting terrorism in the first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay.
2008年，在关塔那摩湾第一次战争罪审判上，美国军事陪审团判定本拉登的前任司机萨利姆•哈姆丹因支持恐怖主义有罪。
2009 Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice by a Senate vote of 68-31.
2009年，索尼娅•索托马约尔经参议院表决以68 – 31当选第一位拉丁裔最高法院大法官。
2011 Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter in Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the elite Navy commando unit that had slain Osama bin Laden; seven Afghan commandos also died.
2011年，在阿富汗叛军击落了一架美国军用直升机造成30名美国人死亡，其中大部分是曾执行过消灭本拉登的海豹突击队的精英，另外7名阿富汗突击队也牺牲了。
2011 Violence erupted in London amid anger over the fatal police shooting of a 29-year-old father of four; rioting and looting spread to other parts of the city and other English cities over the next several days, leaving five dead.
2011年，因警方开枪射杀一名29岁的男子（4个孩子的父亲）引发人们强烈愤怒造成伦敦暴乱。在未来的几天里，骚乱和抢劫迅速扩散到城市的其它地区和英国其它城市，造成5人死亡。
