December 2nd, 2008

Today in History

1972:
Gough Whitlam becomes the first Australian Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia for 23 years.

1915:
Albert Einstein publishes the general theory of relativity.

1859:
Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry.

1851:
Newly-elected French President Charles Louis Bonaparte violently overthrows the Second Republic.

1805:
French troops under Napoleon decisively defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.