Today is Wednesday, December 2, the 336th day of 2009. There are 29 days left in the year.
1804 _ Napoleon Bonaparte crowned first emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII
1823 _ President James Monroe declares his ``Monroe Doctrine"
1908 _ Pu Yi (Hsuan-T'ung) became China's Last Emperor at age 3
1917 _ Han Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea
1927 _ First Model A Fords sold, for $385
1929 _ First skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien
1957 _ First U.S. full-scale atomic power plant in Shippingport, Pa.
1961 _ Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist and will lead Cuba to Communism
1968 _ President Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor
1982 _ First permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (University of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark who lived 112 days