Today in History<BR>December 2nd

Today is Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 (day 336 of the year), but you may have selected a different day. In any case, these are just a few of the things that happened on This Date in History! Holiday notices are displayed boldly.

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Today in History
December	Interesting Things
02	1804, Napoleon was crowned emperor of France at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.
02	1823, President Monroe outlined his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.
02	1859, abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, W.Va the previous October.
02	1927, the Model A Ford was introduced as the successor to the Model T. The price of a Model A roadster was $395.
02	1942, the Atomic Age was born when scientists demonstrated the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction at a laboratory below the stands at the University of Chicago football stadium.
02	1954, the U.S. Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., for what it called "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
02	1961, Fidel Castro disclosed he was a communist, acknowledging he concealed the fact until he solidified his hold on Cuba.
02	1969, the Boeing 747 jumbo jet got its first public preview as 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, flew from Seattle to New York City.
02	1970, the Environmental Protection Agency began operating under director William Ruckelshaus.
02	1980, four American churchwomen were raped, murdered and buried outside San Salvador. Five national guardsmen were convicted in the killings, and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
02	1982, 62-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark became the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart. He survived 112 days.
02	1985: A Philippine civilian court acquitted armed forces chief Gen. Fabian C. Ver and 25 other defendants of charges related to the 1983 shooting death of opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino.
02	1989, President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev held the first talks of their wind-tossed Malta summit aboard the Soviet cruise ship Maxim Gorky.
02	1990, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein declared that the chance for war was "50-50," depending on U.S. willingness to negotiate the Persian Gulf crisis.
02	1990: Actor Bob Cummings died in Woodland Hills, Calif., at age 82.
02	1990: Chancellor Helmut Kohl's center-right coalition easily won the first free all-German elections since 1932.
02	1990: Composer Aaron Copland died in North Tarrytown, N.Y., at age 90.
02	1993, Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar is killed in a shoot-out with police and soldiers in the Colombian city of Medellin.
02	1994: Reputed "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss was convicted in Los Angeles of three counts of pandering.
02	1994: The government agreed not to seek a recall of allegedly fire-prone General Motors pickup trucks, striking a deal with GM under which the automaker would spend more than $51 million on safety and research.
02	1996, two aviators were killed when a Navy training jet crashed at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.

Today in HistoryDecember 2nd

Today in History
December 2nd