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December 02nd Today's Highlights in History

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« on: December 02, 2009, 07:03:47 am »

Wednesday, December 02nd
The 336th day of 2009.
There are 29 days left in the year.
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Today's Highlights in History

   
   On Dec. 2, 1954, the Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R Wis., for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." (Go to article.)

On Dec. 2, 1923, Maria Callas, the legendary American soprano opera singer, was born. Following her death on Sept. 16, 1977, her obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
   
   On December 2, 1876, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Electoral College Controversy of 1876-1877. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)
On this date in:

1804    Napoleon was crowned emperor of France.

1816    The first savings bank in the United States, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, opened.

1823    President James Monroe outlined his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.

1859    Militant abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his Oct. 16 raid on a federal armory at Harpers Ferry in present-day West Virginia. (Brown had hoped to start an anti-slavery rebellion.)

1939    New York's La Guardia Airport began operations.

1942    A self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated for the first time at the University of Chicago.

1961    Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared himself a Marxist-Leninist who would lead Cuba to Communism.

1967    Cardinal Francis Spellman died in New York City at age 78.

1969    The Boeing 747 jumbo jet debuted.

1970    The Environmental Protection Agency began operations.

1980    Four American churchwomen were raped, murdered and buried in El Salvador. (Five national guardsmen were later convicted of murder.)

1982    Doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center performed the first implant of a permanent artificial heart in a human. Barney Clark lived 112 days with the device.

1990    Chancellor Helmut Kohl's center-right coalition easily won the first free all-German elections since 1932.

1990    Composer Aaron Copland died at age 90.

1993    Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot to death by security forces in Medellin.

1999    A power-sharing cabinet of Protestants and Catholics sat down together for the first time in Northern Ireland.

2001    Enron filed for Chapter 11 protection in one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in U.S. history.

2001    A bomb went off aboard a bus in Haifa, killing 15 Israelis.

Current Birthdays

Harry Reid turns 70 years old today.

AP Photo/Alex Brandon Senate majority leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., turns 70 years old today.


95    Bill Erwin
Actor

85    Alexander M. Haig
Former secretary of state

84    Julie Harris
Actress

78    Edwin Meese III
Former attorney general

65    Cathy Lee Crosby
Actress

64    Penelope Spheeris
Director

60    Ron Raines
Actor

59    John Wesley Ryles
Country singer

57    Keith Szarabajka
Actor

55    Dan Butler
Actor

55    Stone Phillips
Broadcast journalist

54    Dennis Christopher
Actor

53    Steven Bauer
Actor

49    Joe Henry
Country singer

49    Rick Savage
Rock musician (Def Leppard)

41    Jimi Haha
Rock singer (Jimmie's Chicken Shack)

41    Lucy Liu
Actress

41    Nate Mendel
Rock musician (Foo Fighters)

41    Rena Sofer
Actress

39    Treach
Rapper (Naughty by Nature)

36    Monica Seles
Tennis player

31    Nelly Furtado
Rock singer

28    Britney Spears
Singer

26    Aaron Rodgers
Football player

26    Daniela Ruah
Actress ("NCIS: Los Angeles")

21    Alfie Enoch
Actor ("Harry Potter" movies)

Historic Birthdays

Maria Callas

12/2/1923 - 9/16/1977
Greek-American opera singer
(Go to obit.)

46    John Breckinridge
12/2/1760 - 12/14/1806
American politician

57    Rene Waldeck-Rousseau
12/2/1846 - 8/10/1904
French premier

31    Georges Seurat
12/2/1859 - 3/29/1891
French painter

63    Charles Ringling
12/2/1863 - 12/3/1926
American circus owner

72    Ruth Draper
12/2/1884 - 12/30/1956
American entertainer

64    George Richards Minot
12/2/1885 - 2/25/1950
American physician and Nobel Prize winner

70    Sir John Barbirolli
12/2/1899 - 7/29/1970
English conductor and cellist

71    Peter Carl Goldmark
12/2/1906 - 12/7/1977
Hungarian-American engineer; developed the first commercial color television

50    Gianni Versace
12/2/1946 - 7/15/1997
Italian-American fashion designer


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