Wednesday, December 02, 2009

TODAY IN HISTORY

DECEMBER 2


1954:Sen. Joseph McCarthy is censured by the Senate for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.”

1942: Enrico Fermi and other scientists demonstrate the first controlled nuclear fission chain reaction, the quiet start of the atomic age.

1961: Fidel Castro declares himself the leader of a communist Cuba: “I am a Marxist-Leninist and will be a Marxist-Leninist until the last day of my life.”

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