历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-04-09
时间：2019-01-19 作者：英语课 分类：历史上的今天-2011年
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April 9th, 1865 - The American Civil War effectively ends；after four years and more than a half million deaths. Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his forces to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
2003 - Iraqis celebrate the collapse 1 of Saddam Hussein's regime in the capital, Baghdad. They topple a statue of their longtime dictator just weeks after the US-led invasion of Iraq.
1959 - NASA announces the first seven astronauts for America's space program, a group dubbed 2 the Mercury Seven.
And 1939 - in Washington, African-American singer Marion Anderson performs at the Lincoln Memorial That happens after the Daughters of the American Revolution ban Anderson from singing at their headquarters because of her race.
And 2005 - "We may grow together in love and peace all the days of our life." Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, marries his longtime love Camilla Parker Bowles, she takes the title Duchess of Cornwall and not Princess of Wales - the title held by Charles' first wife, the late Princess Diana.
Today in History, April 9th, Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.
vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷
- The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
- The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。