历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-07-30
时间：2015-09-08 02:01:08
搜索关注在线英语听力室公众号：tingroom，领取免费英语资料大礼包。
（单词翻译）
July 30th, 1975Former Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban1 Detroit. His son James P. Hoffa: "The circumstances involved in the disappearance2 lead us to the conclusion that we'll never see him again." Although Hoffa is presumed dead, his remains3 have never been found. Hoffa's son is elected the Teamsters' leader more than two decades later.
1965"No longer will older Americans be denied the healing miracle of modern medicine."President Lyndon Johnson signs Medicare and Medicaid into law. The government programs provide health insurance for America's elderly and poor.
1916An estimated 2,000 tons of
munitions4 explode on Black Tom Island, near
Jersey5 City, New Jersey. Suspicion focuses on German
sabotage6 as the cause of the blast which kills seven people nine months before the United States enters World War I.
1945Near the end of World War II, in the Pacific, a Japanese destroyer
torpedoes7 the USS Indianapolis. Only 316 out of the 1,196 men on board the battle cruiser survive the sinking and shark-infested waters.
It happens just after the ship delivers
components8 for the first atomic bomb that the US drops on Hiroshima, Japan a week later.
1863Auto pioneer Henry
Ford9 is born near Dearborn, Michigan. Ford's Model T car and assembly line methods revolutionized America's roads and its industry.
And 1947"I'll be back."Arnold Schwarzenegger, the bodybuilder-turned movie star who became Governor of California is born in Austria.
Today in History, July 30th, Ed Donahue, the Associated Press.
分享到：
