历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-05

 May 5th,1961 -Alan Shepard becomes America’s first space traveler blasting off from Cape¹ Canaveral, Florida. Three, Two, One, Zero. Ignition. Shepard makes 15-minute suborbital flight on board his Mercury capsule dubbed² Freedom Seven.

1821 -France’s former ruler, Napoleon Bonaparte, whose armies once swept across Europe, dies in exile on the South Atlantic island of St. Helena.

1818 - Karl Marx, the philosopher whose ideas bore fruit in communist regimes worldwide during the 20th centuryis born what’s now Germany.

1981 -Irish Republican Army member Boby Sands dies at North Ireland’s Maiz Prison during the 66 days of his hunger strike .

And 1891 -Composer Tchaikovsky conducts at the opening concert in Carnegie Hall, then known as Music Hall in New York city. Today in history, May 5th. Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.

1 cape   

n.海角，岬；披肩，短披风

参考例句：

• I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
• She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。

2 dubbed   

v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 )；把…称为；配音；复制

参考例句：

• Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
• Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》