历史上的今天:11月4日,图坦卡蒙墓入口发现与奥巴马当选

11月4日这一天,在历史上留下多个重要时刻。
1777年,乔治·华盛顿得知军中有人密谋以Horatio Gates取代他的总司令之职。1791年,美国军队在Wabash之战中惨败,这是美军在印第安战争中最惨重的失利之一。1842年,Abraham Lincoln与Mary Todd在伊利诺伊州斯普林菲尔德成婚。
1918年,英国诗人Wilfred Owen在战场上阵亡,距离第一次世界大战停战仅一周。1922年,考古学家Howard Carter在埃及帝王谷发现了图坦卡蒙陵墓入口的台阶,由此揭开20世纪最著名的考古发现。1924年,Nellie Tayloe Ross与Miriam Ferguson当选州长,成为美国首批女性州长。
1946年,联合国教科文组织(UNESCO)宪章生效。1948年,诗人T.S. Eliot获得诺贝尔文学奖。1956年,苏联军队进入布达佩斯,镇压匈牙利革命。1960年,Jane Goodall在贡贝观察到黑猩猩制造并使用工具,改变了学界对人类独特性的认识。
1979年,伊朗学生占领美国驻德黑兰大使馆,52名美国人被扣为人质,危机持续444天。1980年,Ronald Reagan在大选中击败时任总统Jimmy Carter。1995年,以色列总理Yitzhak Rabin在特拉维夫和平集会后遇刺身亡。
2008年,Barack Obama当选美国第44任总统,成为美国历史上首位非裔总统。2016年,应对气候变化的《巴黎协定》正式生效。
(来源:HISTORY.com)
On This Day: November 4, From the Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb to Obama's Election
November 4 has carried some of history's most consequential moments.
In 1777, George Washington learned of a plot to replace him as commander of the Continental Army with Horatio Gates. In 1791, U.S. forces suffered a devastating defeat at the Battle of the Wabash. In 1842, Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois.
British poet Wilfred Owen was killed in action in 1918, one week before the First World War armistice. In 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the steps leading to Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, beginning the most famous archaeological find of the 20th century. In 1924, Nellie Tayloe Ross and Miriam Ferguson were elected governors, becoming the first women to win U.S. governorships.
UNESCO's constitution took effect in 1946. Poet T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Soviet forces crushed the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. In 1960, Jane Goodall observed chimpanzees making and using tools at Gombe, reshaping scientific understanding of what makes humans unique.
In 1979, Iranian students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans hostage in a crisis that lasted 444 days. Ronald Reagan defeated President Jimmy Carter in the 1980 election. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated after a peace rally in Tel Aviv in 1995.
In 2008, Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States, the first African American to win the office. In 2016, the Paris Agreement on climate change entered into force.
(Source: HISTORY.com)
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图片来源:图坦卡蒙黄金面具,1922年11月4日其陵墓入口台阶被发现。The golden mask of Tutankhamun, whose tomb entrance steps were discovered on November 4, 1922. Photo: Dawid Wdowczyk / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
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