December 2nd, 2008

Today in History

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

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

1930:
Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.

1859:
Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry.

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