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历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-02-19

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 February 19th 1945.“We’ve got cities and pricks1, 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 seize the western Pacific island from Japnanese 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 surviving Janpanese-Americans. 1473. Nicolas Copernicus, the astronomer2 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 Massacre3.
And 1940.“The tears of the cloud, where there’s no one around…” Singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson, one of the voices who shape Motown songs of the sixties, is born in Detroit.
Today in history, February 19th. Bryant Thomas, the Associated Press.

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1 pricks 20f8a636f609ce805ce271cee734ba10     
刺痛( prick的名词复数 )； 刺孔； 刺痕； 植物的刺
参考例句：
  • 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。
2 astronomer DOEyh     
n.天文学家
参考例句：
  • 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。
3 massacre i71zk     
n.残杀，大屠杀；v.残杀，集体屠杀
参考例句：
  • There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
  • If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！

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