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Dobsons Improbable History for December 2 After a Facebook-free Thanksgiving holiday, were back with a rundown of the important, the weird, and the interesting events of this day in history. Today, Napoléon crowns himself emperor, John Brown is hanged, the safety razor and the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction debut, Joe McCarthy is censured, Fidel Castro announces hes a Communist, and Benazir Bhutto becomes the first woman to head an Islamic state. Its the birthday of pointillist Georges Seurat, circus promoter Charles Ringling, singers Maria Callas and Britney Spears, politicians Ed Meese and Harry Reid, fashion designer Gianni Versace, and modern Watson Lucy Liu. RIP to conquistador Hernán Cortés, mapper Gerardus Mercator, the Marquis de Sade, comedian Marty Feldman, wants some splainin Desi Arnaz, composer Aaron Copeland, and drug lord Pablo Escobar. In Cuba, its Armed Forces Day; in Laos and the United Arab Emirates, its National Day; and in US food holidays its National Fritters Day. Happy Walter Plinge Day, everybody! improbhistory.blogspot/2013/12/december-2-in-history.html
Posted on: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 14:32:09 +0000

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