TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2019

On this day in history:

1804 - Napoleon was crowned emperor of France at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.

1829 - Captain Sturt arrives at and names the Darling River. 1895 - Queen Victoria gives Royal assent to the Bill allowing South Australian women the right to vote.

1917 - During World War I, hostilities were suspended on the eastern front.

1961 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared in a nationally broadcast speech that he was a Marxist-Leninist and that he was going to lead Cuba to communism.

1980 - The Central Committee of Poland’s Communist Party announced major Politburo changes. The changes were aimed at coping with labour unrest.

1988 - Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as prime minister of Pakistan.

1989 - V.P. Singh was sworn in as prime minister of India. 1990 - Chancellor Hekmut Kohl’s coalition won the first free all-German elections since 1932.

1992 - Germany’s lower house of parliament voted in favour of the Maastricht Treaty on European unity.

1999 - The British government transferred political power over the province of Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.

2010 - NASA announced the discovery of a new arsenicbased life form.

BIRTHDAYS

George Seurat 1859 Charles Ringling 1862

S. Joseph Begun 1905

Ray Walston 1914 Adolph Greene 1915

Leo Gordon 1922

Maria Callas 1923 Alexander M. Haig 1924 Julie Harris 1925

Tom McGuinness 1941 Guitarist, singer (Manfred Mann, The Blues Band) Cathy Lee Crosby 1944 Actress

John Wesley Ryles 1950 Keith Szarabajka 1952

Dan Butler 1954

Stone Phillips 1954 - Broadcast journalist

Dennis Christopher 1955 Steven Bauer 1956 Sydney Youngblood 1960