On this day in History - Dec. 02

• 1409 - The University of Leipzig opened.
• 1804 - At Notre Dame Cathedral Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII.
• 1814 - Marquis de Sade, died, writer (b. 1740)
• 1823 - US President James Monroe outlined his famous doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.
• 1825 - Imperador Pedro II do Brasil, born
• 1859 - Abolitionist John Brown hanged for his raid on Harper's Ferry.
• 1867 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
• 1901 - A patent for a double-edged disposable shaving razor was awarded to one Mr. King Gillette.
• 1915 - Albert Einstein publishes the general theory of relativity.
• 1923 - Maria Callas born, American operatic soprano.
• 1930 - Gary S Becker born, American economist awarded the Nobel Prize for Economic in 1992. His work consisted of applying theories of production to household behaviour
• 1935 - Abyssinian government orders troops out of Harar on humanitarian grounds.
• 1939 - New York’s La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago landed at one minute past midnight.
• 1942 - The first controlled nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated at the University of Chicago.
• 1946 - Gianni Versace, born, designer (d. 1997)
• 1954 -The Senate voted to condemn Republican senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
• 1968 - Lucy Liu born, actress
• 1970 - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established.
• 1971 - The United Arab Emirates is formed.
• 1973 - Monica Seles born, tennis player
• 1973 - Jan Ullrich, born german cyclist , winner of 1997 Tour France
• 1978 - Nelly Furtado ,born , singer.
• 1980 - four American churchwomen were raped, murdered and buried outside San Salvador. (Five national guardsmen were convicted in the killings.)
• 1981- Britney Spears born , singer.
• 1982 Barney B. Clark became the first person to receive an artificial heart in a transplant operation made at the University of Utah Medical Center
• 1988 - Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam dominated state.
• 1990 - Composer Aaron Copland died at age 90.
• 1990 - President Hissène Habré of Chad is ousted by Idriss 'Cowboy of the Sands' Déby in a military coup.
• 1993 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot to death by security forces in Medellin.
• 1999 - A Protestant and Catholic cabinet convened for the first time in Northern Ireland.
• 2001 - Enron Corp., under CEO Kenneth Lay, filed for bankruptcy.
• 2004 - The Nintendo DS launches in Japan.
• Dia Internacional para la Abolición de la Esclavitud