December 2nd, 2008

Today in History

1990:
A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German elections since 1932.

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

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.

1755:
The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.