December 2nd, 2008

Today in History

1409:
The University of Leipzig opens.

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

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

1961:
Cold War: In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba was going to adopt Communism.

2001:
Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.