December 2: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1697 - St Paul's Cathedral is opened in London.
2. 1763 - Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what became the United States.
3. 1804 - At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
4. 1927 - Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
5. 1930 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before theUnited States Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
6. 1939 - New York City's La Guardia Airport opens.
7. 1942 - During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermiinitiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
8. 1971 - Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
9. 1982 - At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
10. 1988 - Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
11. Famous Birthdays: John Breckinridge (American politician, 5th United States Attorney General), Charles Edward Ringling (American businessman, co-founded the Ringling Brothers Circus), George Richards Minot (American physician, Nobel Prize laureate), Otto Dix (German painter and illustrator), Gary Becker (American economist, recipient of the Nobel Prize laureate)

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