This Day In History

December 3rd

1804  Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned emperor at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, France.
1816  The Philadelphia Savings Fund Society opens as the first US savings bank in in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1927  Henry Ford of the Ford Motor Company unveils his Model A automobile.
1942  Scientists at the University of Chicago demonstrate a nuclear chain reaction.
1954  US Senate votes to condemn Wisconsin Republican Joseph R. McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."  In other words, he had been on a witch hunt for communists, singling out even the innocent in the wake of paranoia.
1970  The EPA (Enviromental Protection Agency) began operation.

1930  Singer Andy Williams
1931  Singer Jaye P. (Mary Margaret) Morgan
1948  Heavy Metal Rock Star Ozzy (John) Osbourne
1949  Singer Mickey Thomas

1959

• Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin

• Don't You Know - Della Reese

• In the Mood - Ernie Field's Orchestra

• Country Girl - Faron Young

1967

• Daydream Believer - The Monkees

• The Rain, the Park and Other Things - The Cowsills

• I Say a Little Prayer - Dionne Warwick

• It's the Little Things - Sonny James

1975

• Fly, Robin Fly - Silver Convention

• Island Girl - Elton John

• The Way I Want to Touch You - Captain and Tennille

• It's All in the Movies - Merle Haggard

1983

• All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie

• Uptown Girl - Billy Joel

• Say It Isn't So - Daryl Hall and John Oates

• A Little Good News - Anne Murray

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