December 1st, 2008

Today in History

1998:
Exxon announces a US$73.7 billion deal to buy Mobil, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the largest company on the planet.

1991:
Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.

1961:
The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.

1944:
Edward Stettinius Jr. becomes becomes the last United States Secretary of State of the Roosevelt administration.

1824:
U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution).