December 2nd, 2008

Today in History

2001:
Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

1982:
At the University of Utah, Barney Clark, becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.

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

1962:
Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to not make an optimistic public comment on the war's progress.

1845:
Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.