December 2nd, 2008

Today in History

2005:
Microsoft releases its Xbox 360 video game console in Europe.

2001:
Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

1942:
Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

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

1851:
Newly-elected French President Charles Louis Bonaparte violently overthrows the Second Republic.