TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Dec. 2, 1942

An artificially created, selfsustaining nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated for the first time at the University of Chicago. ALSO ON THIS DATE

1697

London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, was consecrated for use even though the building was still under construction.

1804

Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French.

1859

Militant abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harpers Ferry the previous October. Artist Georges-Pierre Seurat was born in Paris.

1927

Ford Motor Co. unveiled its Model A automobile that replaced its Model T.

1939

New York Municipal Airport-LaGuardia Field went into operation as an airliner from Chicago landed at one minute past midnight.

1954

The U.S. Senate passed, 6722, a resolution condemning Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., saying he had “acted contrary to senatorial ethics and tended to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.”

1957

The Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, the first full-scale commercial nuclear facility in the U.S., began operations.

1967

Cardinal Francis Spellman died in New York at age 78.