Shimla, Dec 2, Keekli Bureau
2014
Canadian ice hockey player Jean Béliveau, considered one of the game’s greatest centres, noted for his prolific scoring, died at age 83.
2001
Following revelations of massive accounting fraud, Enron filed for bankruptcy protection; the energy-trading company was once the seventh largest corporation in the United States.
1993
Colombian criminal Pablo Escobar—who, as head of the Medellín cartel, was arguably the world’s most powerful drug trafficker in the 1980s and early ’90s—was killed during a shoot-out with authorities.
1983
The groundbreaking music video for Michael Jackson’s song Thriller aired on MTV.
1982
William C. DeVries implanted the first permanent artificial heart in Barney Clark; the aluminum and plastic device was called the Jarvik-7.
1981
American singer Britney Spears—who helped spark the teen-pop phenomenon in the late 1990s and later endured intense public scrutiny for her personal life—was born.
1971
The United Arab Emirates was formed by the union of six small emirates on the Arabian Peninsula; a seventh emirate joined in February 1972.
1954
The U.S. Senate voted to censure Senator Joseph R. McCarthy for his conduct in the investigation of communism in the United States.
1942
Scientists led by Enrico Fermi conducted the world’s first controlled self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, at the University of Chicago.
1884
American monologuist and monodramatist Ruth Draper was born in New York City.
1859
Abolitionist John Brown was hanged following a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
1804
Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France in the presence of Pope Pius VII.
