历史上的今天:2月12日

Today's Highlight in History:
One year ago, on February 12, 1999, the Senate voted to acquit¹（无罪释放） President Clinton of perjury²（伪证，伪誓） and obstruction³ of justice（妨碍司法公正） . Clinton told Americans he was "profoundly sorry" for what he had said and done in the Monica Lewinsky affair that triggered the impeachment⁴（弹劾，控告） drama.

On this date:
In 1733, English colonists⁵ led by James Oglethorpe founded Savannah, Georgia.

In 1809, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in present-day Larue County, Kentucky.

In 1870, women in the Utah Territory gained the right to vote.

In 1892, President Lincoln's birthday was declared a national holiday.

In 1909, the National Association for the Advancement⁶ of Colored People was founded.

In 1915, the cornerstone（基础，柱石） for the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington DC.

In 1924, George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" premiered（初次公演） in New York.

In 1940, the radio play "The Adventures of Superman" debuted⁷ on the Mutual⁸ network with Bud Collyer as the Man of Steel.

In 1973, the first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam conflict took place.

In 1993, in a crime that shocked Britons, two ten-year-old boys lured⁹（引诱，诱惑） two-year-old James Bulger from his mother at a shopping mall in Liverpool, England, then beat him to death.

Ten years ago: President Bush rejected Soviet¹⁰ President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's new initiative（主动权，首创精神） for troop reductions in Europe, but predicted a "major success" on arms control at the superpower summit in June.

Five years ago: Jurors from the O.J. Simpson murder trial toured the scene where Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman had been slain¹¹, then visited the estate of the former football star.

One year ago: Swarms¹² of anxious travelers were left stranded¹³（搁浅的，陷于困境的） when American Airlines again scrubbed（擦洗，废止） more than a thousand flights after its pilots defied（违抗） a court order and continued their mass sickout（托病旷工） .