December 2nd, 2008

Today in History

2001:
Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

1999:
The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to a the Northern Ireland Executive.

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

1848:
Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.

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

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