12-02-2004, 06:26 AM
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December 2nd
1547 ~ Death of Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conqueror.
1804 ~ At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned as the first Emperor of France in a thousand years.
1814 ~ Death of Marquis de Sade, Writer
1859 ~ Militant abolitionist leader John Brown was hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry.
1915 ~ Albert Einstein completed his presentations before the Prussian Academy of Sciences of the general theory of relativity.
1923 ~ Birthday of Maria Callas, Opera Singer.
1942 ~ Manhattan Project: Below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiatd the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (a coded message, "The Italian navigator has landed in the new world" was then sent to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt).
1961 ~ Cold War: In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared that he was a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba was going to adopt Communism.
1972 ~ Gough Whitlam became Prime Minister of Australia. His first action using executive power was to withdraw all Australian personnel from the Vietnam War.
1990 ~ War on Drugs: Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot and killed in Medellín.
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