历史上的6/7日，

今天是6/7日，2023年的第158天，今年还剩207天。

人类历史上的今天,发生了如下值得我关注的事件：

——1903

皮埃尔·居里教授报道了了钋的发现。

Professor Pierre Curie reveals the discovery of Polonium.

——1914

巴拿马运河通航

The first vessel passes through the Panama Canal.

——1942

中途岛海战以美军完胜日军而结束。

1942年6月7日，中途岛战役——二次大战中美国对日本的战争中最具决定性的胜利之一——结束。在为期四天的海空战中，寡不敌众的美国太平洋舰队成功摧毁了四艘日本航空母舰，只失去了一艘自己的约克敦号，从而打破了日军无敌的神话，一举扭转了战局。

编者按：感兴趣的朋友可以看看电影“中途岛“. 以下是油管的链接：https://youtu.be/IktNlCr6S2w

Battle of Midway ends

On June 7, 1942, the Battle of Midway—one of the most decisive U.S. victories in its war against Japan—comes to an end. In the four-day sea and air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers with the loss of only one of its own, the Yorktown, thus reversing the tide against the previously invincible Japanese navy.

In six months of offensives, the Japanese had triumphed in lands throughout the Pacific, including Malaysia, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines, and numerous island groups. The United States, however, was a growing threat, and Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto sought to destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet before it was large enough to outmatch his own. A thousand miles northwest of Honolulu, the strategic island of Midway became the focus of his scheme to smash U.S. resistance to Japan’s imperial designs. Yamamoto’s plan consisted of a feint toward Alaska followed by an invasion of Midway by a Japanese strike force. When the U.S. Pacific Fleet arrived at Midway to respond to the invasion, it would be destroyed by the superior Japanese fleet waiting unseen to the west. If successful, the plan would eliminate the U.S. Pacific Fleet and provide a forward outpost from which the Japanese could eliminate any future American threat in the Central Pacific.

Battle of Midway Tactical Overview - World War II

Unfortunately for the Japanese, U.S. intelligence broke the Japanese naval code, and the Americans anticipated the surprise attack. Three heavy aircraft carriers of the U.S. Pacific Fleet were mustered to challenge the four heavy Japanese carriers steaming toward Midway. In early June, U.S. command correctly recognized a Japanese movement against Alaska’s Aleutian Islands as a diversionary tactic and kept its forces massed around Midway. On June 3, the Japanese occupation force was spotted steaming toward the island, and B-17 Flying Fortresses were sent out from Midway to bomb the strike force but failed to inflict damage. Early in the morning on June 4, a PBY Catalina flying boat torpedoed a Japanese tanker transport, striking the first blow of the Battle of Midway.

Later that morning, an advance Japanese squadron numbering more than 100 bombers and Zero fighters took off from the Japanese carriers to bomb Midway. Twenty-six Wildcat fighters were sent up to intercept the Japanese force and suffered heavy losses in their heroic defense of Midway’s air base. Soon after, bombers and torpedo planes based on Midway took off to attack the Japanese carriers but failed to inflict serious damage. The first phase of the battle was over by 7:00 a.m.

——1974

《孙子兵法》和《孙膑兵法》竹简出土

1974年6月7日，我国文物考古工作者在山东省临沂银雀山发掘的西汉前期墓葬中，同时发现了著名的《孙子兵法》和已经失传了1000多年的《孙膑兵法》等竹简4000多枚。这批先秦古籍的发现，是我国文物、考古工作取得的又一重大新成果。

　　这批竹简的发现，证明现有《孙子兵法》源出孙武，完成于孙膑，是春秋末期到战国中期长期战争经验的总结，并不是一个人专著，使《孙子兵法》作者孙武是否实有其人等国内外长期存在的疑案得到解决。特别是失传已久的《孙膑兵法》的发现，为研究我国古代军事思想提供了重要的新资料。