while I use this blog mainly for testing, I still think it's a great excuse to generate "quality" content.
so, some interesting facts:
* Britney spears was born on Dec. 2nd, 1981.
other interesting events that took place on Dec. 2nd: (courtesy of wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2)
- 1409 – The University of Leipzig opens.
- 1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
- 1848 – Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.
- 1859 – Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry.
- 1908 – Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two
- 1917 – An armistice is signed between Russia and the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk began.
- 1942 – Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
- 1975 – Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
- 1976 – Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
- 1982 – At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
- 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
- 1993 – Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.
- 2001 – Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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