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Originally Posted by Tala
Got almost all of my Christmas shopping done,
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I hate you.
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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1804 Napoleon was crowned emperor of France.
1816 The first savings bank in the United States, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, opened for business.
1823 President James Monroe outlined his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.
1859 Militant abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harper's Ferry the previous October.
1939 New York's La Guardia Airport began operations.
1942 A self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated for the first time at the University of Chicago.
On Dec. 2, 1954, the Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
1961 Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared himself a Marxist-Leninist who would lead Cuba to Communism.
1967 Cardinal Francis Spellman died in New York City at age 78.
1969 The Boeing 747 jumbo jet made its debut.
1970 The Environmental Protection Agency began operating.
1980 Four American churchwomen were raped, murdered and buried outside San Salvador.
1982 Doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center performed the first implant of a permanent artificial heart in a human. Barney Clark lived 112 days with the device.
1990 Chancellor Helmut Kohl's center-right coalition easily won the first free all-German elections since 1932.
1990 Composer Aaron Copland died at age 90.
1991 American hostage Joseph Cicippio, held captive in Lebanon for more than five years, was released.
1993 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot to death by security forces in Medellin.
1997 Attorney General Janet Reno declined to seek an independent counsel investigation of telephone fund-raising by President Bill Clinton and Vice President Gore.
1999 In Northern Ireland, a power-sharing cabinet of Protestants and Catholics sat down together for the first time.
2001 Enron filed for Chapter 11 protection in one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in U.S. history.
2001 A bomb went off aboard a bus in Haifa, killing 15 Israelis.
2004 President George W. Bush chose former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik to run the Department of Homeland Security. (Kerik withdrew his name days later, citing immigration problems with a former nanny.)
Birthdays...
Singer Britney Spears is 24 today
51 Stone Phillips
Broadcast journalist (''Dateline NBC'')
32 Monica Seles
Tennis player
27 Nelly Furtado
Singer
TOUGH TRIVIA coming later this morning. Have a great day and a great weekend everyone.
Eat a good breakfast. :D