December 2nd, 2008

Today in History

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

1954:
Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."

1939:
La Guardia Airport opens for business in New York City.

1915:
Albert Einstein publishes the general theory of relativity.

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