On This Day:
Monday December 2, 2013 This is the 336th day of the year, with 29 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: basketball slam dunk In college basketball, the NCAA banned the slam dunk shot at the start of the 1967-68 season to reduce the dominance of UCLA's 7-foot 2-inch Lew Alcindor (now known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). For this reason the ban is often referred to as the "Lew Alcindor Rule." The slam dunk shot was not reinstated in college basketball until the 1976-77 season.
Holidays Feast day of St. Chromatius of Aquilea, St. Silvanus of Constantinople, St. Nonnus and St. Bibiana or Viviana.
Laos: Lao People's Democratic Republic National Day.
Pan American Health Day.
United Arab Emirates: National Day (independence from Great Britain, 1971).
Events 1763 - In Newport, Rhode Island, the Touro Synagogue became the first synagogue in what was to become the United States.
1804 - Napoleon was crowned the first emperor of France.
1805 - Napoleon defeated the Austrians and Russians at the Battle of Austerlitz.
1816 - The first U.S. savings bank, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, opened.
1823 - President James Monroe outlined his doctrine to stop European expansion in the Western hemisphere.
1901 - King Camp Gillette patented a safety razor with a double-edged disposable blade.
1918 - Armenia proclaimed independence from Turkey.
1939 - New York La Guardia Airport opened for business.
1942 - The first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was achieved, at the University of Chicago.
1954 - Joseph McCarthy, senator from Wisconsin who was trying to find Communists in the government and entertainment industries, was condemned and silenced by the U.S. Senate.
1961 - Fidel Castro declared himself a Marxist-Leninist who would lead Cuba to Communism.
1969 - The first Boeing 747 jumbo jet flew from Seattle to New York City.
1970 - The Environmental Protection Agency started operations.
1970 - U.S. Senate voted to give 48,000 acres of New Mexico back to the Taos Indians.
1980 - Denali National Monument and Mount McKinley National Park were combined and established as Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska.
1980 - Alaska's Glacier Bay National Monument, Katmai National Monument, Kenai Fjords National Park, Kobuk Valley National Park, Lake Clark National Park, and Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve were established as national parks and preserves.
1982 - Dentist Barney Clark received the first permanent artificial heart, developed by Dr. Robert K. Jarvik.
1990 - West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was elected chancellor of a united Germany.
1997 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the irradiation of pork, beef, and lamb in the wake of finding contaminated hamburger meat from Nebraska.
2001 - Enron filed for Chapter 11 protection in one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in U.S. history.
Births 1859 - Georges Seurat, French painter and leader of Pointillism style.
1863 - Charles Ringling, American showman, one of the seven Ringling circus brothers.
1917 - American singer Sylvia Syms, "world's greatest saloon singer."
1923 - Maria Callas, American-born Greek lyric soprano.
1981 - Britney Spears, American pop singer, dancer.
Deaths 1814 - Marquis de Sade, French aristocrat and writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography.
1859 - John Brown, American militant abolitionist, executed for his raid on Harper's Ferry.
1993 - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug cartel leader, in Medellín.
1995 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor.
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