Notable Events June 2

In 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee took command of the Confederate armies of eastern Virginia and North Carolina in the Civil War.
南北戰爭時Robert E. Lee將軍開始統帥南部聯盟東維吉尼亞州與北可羅萊納州的軍隊。

• Confederate 【南北戰爭時期的】南部聯盟
  

In 1865, the Civil War came to an end when Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi, signed the surrender terms offered by Union negotiators.
南北戰爭結束簽署停戰協議。

In 1924, Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians.
美國國會正式認可美洲印地安人的國籍。

In 1946, in a national referendum, voters in Italy decided the country should become a republic rather than return to a monarchy.
義大利公民投票決定國家應走向共和制，而非君主政體。

• monarchy 君主政體、君主政治
  

In 1953, Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in London's Westminster Abbey by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
英國女王伊莉莎白二世在倫敦西敏寺受冕，加冕儀式由坎特伯里大主教主持。

• crowned 被加冕
  
• Westminster Abbey 西敏寺
• Archbishop 大主教
  

In 1979, Pope John Paul II returned home to Poland in the first visit by a pope to a communist nation.
第一個前往共產國家探視的教宗若望保羅二世結束在波蘭的行程返國。

In 1992, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton clinched the Democratic presidential nomination as six states had the final primaries of the 1992 political season.
阿肯色州州長柯林頓終於贏得民主黨黨內初選，被提名為總統候選人

• clinch v. 終於贏得
  

In 1997, a federal jury in Denver convicted Timothy McVeigh in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people. He was sentenced to death and subsequently executed.
陪審團判定奧克拉荷馬市爆炸案的主嫌死刑。

• jury n. 陪審團

In 1999, in parliamentary elections, South African voters kept the African National Congress in power, assuring that its leader, Thabo Mbeki, would succeed the retiring Nelson Mandela as president.
南非選民透過大選維持非洲國民大會(南非執政黨)的執政權，並確保其領袖將繼曼德拉後成為下一任總統。

In 2003, U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said in a report that inspectors before the war had been unable to prove or disprove the presence in Iraq of weapons of mass destruction.
聯合國武檢官發表報告指出，在戰前根本無法證實或否認伊拉克是否擁有大規模毀滅型武器。

In 2005, reports say a federal court has ordered the Pentagon to release photographs depicting abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
報導指出一聯邦法院命令五角大廈釋出在巴格達虐囚案的證據相片。

• depict v. 描寫
• detainee n. 被拘留者