历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-07-20

 July 20th 1969 The Eagle has landed.

Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon. The astronauts set foot on the lunar surface during the Apollo XI Mission. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."Armstrong and Aldrin collect nearly 50 pounds of lunar samples before leaving the Moon.

1976America's Viking 1 robot spacecraft makes the first landing of its kind on Mars. It's one of 2 Viking Landers to transmit the first pictures from the surface of the red planet. 1944Nazi Germany's dictator Adolf Hitler is wounded when a bomb explodes at his eastern front headquarters during WWII. It's a failed attempt by German military officials to assassinate¹ Hitler who takes his own life the following year as Soviet² forces enter Berlin.

1919Mountain climber Edmund Hillary is born in Auckland, New Zealand. Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to reach the top of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain in Asia's Himalayas.

And 1947Carlos Santana, the guitarist and songwriter whose work blends rock, Latin American music, Blues³ and Jazz  is born in Mexico.

Today in History, July 20th. Tim Maguire, the Associated Press.

1 assassinate   

vt.暗杀，行刺，中伤

参考例句：

• The police exposed a criminal plot to assassinate the president.警方侦破了一个行刺总统的阴谋。
• A plot to assassinate the banker has been uncovered by the police.暗杀银行家的密谋被警方侦破了。

2 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。

3 blues   

n.抑郁，沮丧；布鲁斯音乐

参考例句：

• She was in the back of a smoky bar singing the blues.她在烟雾弥漫的酒吧深处唱着布鲁斯歌曲。
• He was in the blues on account of his failure in business.他因事业失败而意志消沉。