December 2nd, 2008

Today in History

2000:
The Smashing Pumpkins play their final gig.

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

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

1915:
Albert Einstein publishes the general theory of relativity.

1867:
In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.