1805 Napoleon defeats Russians and Austrians at Austerlitz
1859 Militant abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his Oct. 16 raid on a federal armory at Harpers Ferry in present-day West Virginia. (Brown had hoped to start an anti-slavery rebellion.)
1942 A self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated for the first time at the University of Chicago
1949: Gene Autry’s song “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” hit the record charts.
1954, the Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R Wis., for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute
1982 Doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center performed the first implant of a permanent artificial heart in a human. Barney Clark lived 112 days with the device.
2001 Enron filed for Chapter 11 protection in one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in U.S. history.
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