December 2nd, 2008

Today in History

1993:
NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

1961:
Cold War: In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba was going to adopt Communism.

1899:
Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.

1852:
Napoleon III becomes Emperor of France.

1848:
Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.