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October 12th 1492On this date under the Old Style calendar, explorer Christopher Columbus lands in the Americas. Columbus sailing under Spain's banner traveled across the Atlantic, trying to seek a route to Asia. His arrival on the Caribbean leads to Europe's colonization1 of the Western Hemisphere.
2000In the Persian Gulf2, suicide bombers3 strike the USS Cole docked in Yemen's port of Aden. They ram4 the Cole with their boat filled with explosives, killing5 17 American sailors aboard the destroyer. Osama bin6 Laden's Al-Qaeda network is blamed for the attack nearly a year before the 9/11 attacks.
1960Political theater during the Cold War at the United Nations in New York, Soviet7 leader Nikita Khrushchev disrupts the UN General Assembly by pounding his desk with a shoe when a speaker criticizes his country.
2002Terrorist strikes Indonesian island of Bali. That's where a bomb blamed on Islamic militants8 destroys a nightclub, killing 202 people, many of them foreign tourists.
1935Luciano Pavarotti, considered one of the greatest opera stars in modern times, is born in Modena, Italy. And 1997 Rocky Mountian highSinger John Denver dies when his privately9 built aircraft crashes in Monterey Bay, California. He was 53 years old.
Today in History, October 12th, Tim Maguire, the Associated Press.
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1 colonization | |
殖民地的开拓,殖民,殖民地化; 移殖 | |
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2 gulf | |
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂 | |
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3 bombers | |
n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 );投弹手;安非他明胶囊;大麻叶香烟 | |
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4 ram | |
(random access memory)随机存取存储器 | |
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5 killing | |
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财 | |
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6 bin | |
n.箱柜;vt.放入箱内;[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件 | |
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7 Soviet | |
adj.苏联的,苏维埃的;n.苏维埃 | |
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8 militants | |
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 ) | |
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9 privately | |
adv.以私人的身份,悄悄地,私下地 | |
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