12-01-2010, 09:31 PM
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December 2rd
1547 ~ Death of Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conqueror.
1814 ~ Death of Marquis de Sade, Writer.
1859 ~ Militant abolitionist leader John Brown was hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry.
1923 ~ Birthday of Maria Callas, Opera Singer.
1942 ~ Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
1954 ~ Senator McCarthy was censured for conduct unbecoming to a senator.
1961 ~ Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared that he was a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba was going to adopt Communism.
1981 ~ Birthday of Isabella Soprano, Porn Actress.
1990 ~ War on Drugs: Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot and killed in Medellín.
1991 ~ Apple release the first version of QuickTime.
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