On December 2nd:
1697: St. Paul's Cathedral in London is opened
1804: Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of France
1805: One year after his coronation, Napoleon defeats Russian and Austrian forces at the Battle of Austerlitz, possibly the most genius battle of his career
1823: James Monroe proposes what will come to be called the Monroe Doctrine
1859: John Brown is hanged for treason
1942: The first chain nuclear reaction is created at the University of Chicago
1954: Communist hunter Joseph McCarthy is censured by the US Senate
1969: The Boeing 747 is publicly demonstrated for the first time
1979: Ayatollah Khomeini's new Iranian constitution is ratified
1990: The first elections are held in the reunited Germany
2001: Enron files for bankruptcy
Birthdays: Georges Seurat (1859), Georgy Zhukov (1896), Alexander Haig (1924)
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