December 2nd, 2008

Today in History

2000:
The Smashing Pumpkins play their final gig.

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.

1954:
Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."

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

1755:
The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.