历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-02-19
时间：2019-01-19 作者：英语课 分类：历史上的今天-2011年
February 19th 1945.“We’ve got cities and pricks 1, all up along the beach, and dozens of marines are around each one of them …” In the final months of World War II, Some 30,000 US marines begin landing at Iwo Jima.That’s where they fight a month-long battle to seized the western Pacific island from Japanese forces . 1942. Also during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt,adopts a controversial policy on the America’s home front. He gives the US military authority to relocate and detain Janpanese-Americans as well as Janpanese nationals living in the US. More than four decades later, the government apologizes for the policy and pays money to the surviving Janpanese-Americans. 1473. Nicolas Copernicus, the astronomer 2 who concluded the Sun, not the earth, is at the center of our Solar system, is born in Poland.
1997. Deng Xiaoping, the last China’s major Communist revolutionary dies in Beijing at age 92. His rules are China embrace free market economic reforms and the Tiananmen Square Massacre 3.
And 1940.“The tears of the cloud, where there’s no one around…” Singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson, one of the voices who shape the Motown songs of the sixties, is born in Detroit.
Today in history, February 19th. Bryant Thomas, the Associated Press.
- My skin pricks sometimes. 我的皮肤有时感到刺痛。
- You must obey the rule. It is useless for you to kick against the pricks. 你必须遵守规定，对抗对你是无益的。
- A new star attracted the notice of the astronomer.新发现的一颗星引起了那位天文学家的注意。
- He is reputed to have been a good astronomer.他以一个优秀的天文学者闻名于世。