December 2, 2023
QUOTE
Women complicate everything.
--Britney Spears
BIRTHDAYS
1863 – Charles Edward Ringling, American businessman, co-founded the Ringling Brothers Circus
1914 – Bill Erwin, Actor
1946 – Pedro Borbón, Dominican-American baseball player
1968 – Lucy Liu, Actress and producer
1981 – Britney Spears, Singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
IN MEMORY
1859 – John Brown, Abolitionist
1892 – Jay Gould, Businessman and financier
1957 – Harrison Ford, Actor
1982 – Marty Feldman, English actor and comedian
1986 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-American actor, singer, businessman, and television producer
IN ON THIS DAY
1697 – St Paul’s Cathedral, rebuilt to the design of Sir Christopher Wren following the Great Fire of London, is consecrated.
1766 – Swedish parliament approves the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implements it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French.
1852 – Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French as Napoleon III.
1865 – Alabama ratifies the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed by North Carolina, then Georgia.
1927 – Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
1982 – At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
1993 – Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.