December 2nd, 2008

Today in History

2000:
The Smashing Pumpkins play their final gig.

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.

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

1804:
At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned as the first Emperor of France in a thousand years.

1755:
The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.