历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-12-23

 December 23rd, 1823'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house,Not, not a creature was stirring even a mouse…’

Clement¹ C. Moore’s Christmas poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” is first published in the upstate New York "Troy Sentinel" newspaper.

1948In Tokyo, Japan’s former premier² Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese leaders during World War II are hanging for war crimes.

1805Joseph Smith, Jr., the principal founder³ of the Mormon religious movement is born in Sharon, Vermont.

1968North Korea releases the 82 crew members of the U.S. intelligence ship 'Pueblo⁴' - 11 months after they were captured by Pyongyang. The ship’s commander Lloyd Bucher - after he and his crew arrived in neighboring South Korea – "I can’t begin to tell you how happy my crew is. The sin, the sad of that land has divided the country in two. "1986The experimental airplane "Voyager" completes the first non-stop, non-refueled flight  around the world. "Voyager" piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager lands safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

1946And born on this day, Susan Lucci of TV's All My Children. Ross Simpson, the Associated Press.

1 clement   

adj.仁慈的；温和的

参考例句：

• A clement judge reduced his sentence.一位仁慈的法官为他减了刑。
• The planet's history contains many less stable and clement eras than the holocene.地球的历史包含着许多不如全新世稳定与温和的地质时期。

2 premier   

adj.首要的；n.总理，首相

参考例句：

• The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
• He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。

3 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

4 pueblo   

n.（美国西南部或墨西哥等）印第安人的村庄

参考例句：

• For over 2,000 years,Pueblo peoples occupied a vast region of the south-western United States.在长达2，000多年的时间里，印第安人统治着现在美国西南部的大片土地。
• The cross memorializes the Spanish victims of the 1680 revolt,when the region's Pueblo Indians rose up in violent protest against their mistreatment and burned the cit