December 2nd, 2008

Today in History

2001:
Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

1970:
The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.

1915:
Albert Einstein publishes the general theory of relativity.

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.