ON THIS DAY: In 1993, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot to death by security forces in Medellin.
Today is Friday, Dec. 2, the 336th day of 2022. There are 29 days left in the year.On Dec. 2, 1954, the U.S. Senate passed, 67-22, a resolution condemning Republican Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin, saying he had “acted contrary to senatorial ethics and tended to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.”In 1823, President James Monroe outlined his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.
In 1957, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, the first full-scale commercial nuclear facility in the U.S., began operations. In 1982, in the first operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implanted a permanent artificial heart in the chest of retired dentist Dr. Barney Clark, who lived 112 days with the device.In 2000, Al Gore sought a recount in South Florida, while George W.
In 2016, a fire that raced through an illegally converted warehouse in Oakland, California, during a dance party killed 36 people.stood before a White House lectern and delivered a 46-minute diatribe against the election results that produced a win for Democrat Joe Biden, unspooling one misstatement after another to back his baseless claim that he really won.
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