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On December 2nd
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned emperor of
France in Paris by Pope Pius VII.
1823 - President James Monroe outlined his famous
doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western
Hemisphere.
1859 - Abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his
raid on Harper's Ferry.
1942 - The first controlled nuclear chain reaction
was demonstrated at the University of Chicago.
1954 - The Senate voted to condemn Republican senator
Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin for "conduct that tends
to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
1970 -The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was
established.
1982 - Barney B. Clark became the first person to
receive an artificial heart in a transplant operation.
1988 - Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as the Prime
Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head
an Muslim nation.
1990 - Composer Aaron Copland died at age 90.
1999 - A Protestant and Catholic cabinet convened for
the first time in Northern Ireland.
2001 - Enron Corp., under CEO Kenneth Lay, filed for
bankruptcy.
In 1923
President: Warren G. Harding
Vice President: Calvin Coolidge
Population: 111,947,000
Federal spending: $3.14 billion
Consumer Price Index: 17.1
Unemployment: 2.4%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
President Warren G. Harding suddenly falls ill (July
28) while returning from a trip to Alaska and is rushed
to San Francisco, where he dies on Aug. 2.
The second Ku Klux Klan movement in U.S. history grows,
stirring widespread controversy and violence.
Adolf Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich fails; in
1924 he is sentenced to five years in prison where he
writes Mein Kampf. He is released after eight months.
Earthquake destroys one-third of Tokyo.
Occupation of Ruhr by French and Belgian troops to
enforce reparations payments. |
