Today is Tuesday, Dec. 2, the 336th day of 2014. There are 29 days left in the year. It is a cold 23 degrees – but with less wind – so far. On this date: In 1804, Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French; In 1823, President James Monroe outlined his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere; In 1859, militant abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harpers Ferry the previous October; In 1939, New York Municipal Airport-LaGuardia Field (later LaGuardia Airport) went into operation as an airliner from Chicago landed at one minute past midnight; In 1942, an artificially created, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated for the first time at the University of Chicago; In 1954, the U.S. Senate passed, 67-22, a resolution condemning Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., saying he had acted contrary to senatorial ethics and tended to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.; In 1961, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared himself a Marxist-Leninist who would eventually lead Cuba to Communism; In 1970, the newly created Environmental Protection Agency opened its doors; its first director was William D. Ruckelshaus; In 1989, President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev held the first talks of their wind-tossed Malta summit aboard the Soviet cruise ship Maxim Gorky; In 2004 President Bush announced that Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns was his choice as the next agriculture secretary, replacing Ann Veneman. U.N. ambassador John Danforth resigned after five months representing the U.S. at the world body; In 2009 A day after President Barack Obama announced plans to deploy 30,000 more troops in Afghanistan, leading congressional Democrats said they had serious misgivings but would not try to stop the deployments while Republicans said they supported the force increase even as they questioned Obamas July 2011 deadline to start bringing troops home; and in 2013, On Cyber Monday, perhaps the busiest online shopping day of the year, the Supreme Court refused to wade into a dispute over state sales taxes for purchases on websites like Amazon, paving the way for more states to attempt to collect taxes on Internet sales. Today: Actress Cathy Lee Crosby is 70. Country singer John Wesley Ryles is 64. Actress Lucy Liu is 46. When we cannot find contentment in ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere. — Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld. Have a good day.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 13:20:21 +0000
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