Notaeble Events May 31

In 1790, U.S. President George Washington signed into law the first U.S. copyright law.
美國第一個專利權法，華盛頓總統簽署

In 1902, Britain and South Africa signed a peace treaty ending the Boer War.
英國與南非的波爾戰爭結束，簽署和平協定

In 1990, U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev opened a four-day summit in Washington, focusing on the role of a united Germany in Europe.
老布希總統與蘇聯戈巴契夫於華盛頓展開四天高峰會議，討論德國統一

In 2003, Eric Robert Rudolph, the long-sought fugitive in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic bombing and attacks on abortion clinics and a gay nightclub, in which two died, was arrested while rummaging through a dumpster in western North Carolina.
1996亞特蘭大奧林匹克運動會長期逃亡的炸彈客落網，他同時還犯下一墮胎診所與同志夜店的案子。

• fugitive
• a. 逃亡的
• n. 逃亡者
  
• rummage v.仔細搜查
• dumpster n. 大型垃圾裝卸卡車(已變成商標名)
  

Also in 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush began a European and Mideastern trip aimed at strengthening relations and promoting a "road map" peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians.
小布希展開歐洲與中東之旅，企圖強化互動關係，並為以色列與巴勒斯坦推動和平計畫

In 2005, Mark Felt admitted that, while No. 2 man in the FBI, he was "Deep Throat," the shadowy contact whose help to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the 1972 Watergate break-in led to U.S. President Richard Nixon's resignation.
Mark Felt承認其任職於FBI期間暗中協助促成華盛頓郵報記者揭露水門案，以至於使尼克森總統辭職下台