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历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-04-16

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 April 16th, 2007A gunman opens fire on the campus of Virginia Tech, killing1 32 students and faculty2 members before killing himself. The number of the victims made the shooting the deadliest in modern U.S. history.

1947，The country deadliest industrial accident takes place in the harbor of Texas City, Texas. That's where the ships Grandcamp and the High Flyer, both carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, each explode, a day apart. The blasts resulting fires kill 576 people and injure 5,000 others.
1917，Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin returns to Russia, ending years of exile in Switzerland. Months later, Lenin's Bolshevik movement seizes power, establishing what becomes the Soviet3 Union.
1889，Charlie Chaplin, whose comic “Tramp” character made him one of the first big movie stars, is born in London.
1996，Britain's Prince Andrew and his wife Sarah, the Duchess of York, better known as “Fergie”, announce they are getting a divorce.
1964，Also in Britain, the Rolling Stones release their debut4 album “The Rolling Stones, England's Newest Hitmakers.”
And 2003，“I will be content innocence5 that my gave in with the basketball is much exactly gave it physically6.” Basketball great Michael Jordan plays his last NBA game, as he and his Washington Wizards lose to the Philadelphia 76ers.
Today in History, April 16th, David Melendy, the Associated Press

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1 killing kpBziQ     
n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财
参考例句：
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
2 faculty HhkzK     
n.才能；学院，系；(学院或系的)全体教学人员
参考例句：
  • He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
  • He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。
3 Soviet Sw9wR     
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。
4 debut IxGxy     
n.首次演出，初次露面
参考例句：
  • That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
  • The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。
5 innocence ZbizC     
n.无罪；天真；无害
参考例句：
  • There was a touching air of innocence about the boy.这个男孩有一种令人感动的天真神情。
  • The accused man proved his innocence of the crime.被告人经证实无罪。
6 physically iNix5     
adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律
参考例句：
  • He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
  • Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。

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