December 2nd, 2008

Today in History

2005:
Microsoft releases its Xbox 360 video game console in Europe.

1990:
A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German elections since 1932.

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

1867:
In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

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