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.

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

1845:
Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.

1805:
French troops under Napoleon decisively defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.