December 2nd, 2008

Today in History

2000:
The Smashing Pumpkins play their final gig.

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

1975:
The communist Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

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."

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