December 2 - This day in history

[alyn]

December 2, 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte is Crowned Emperor of France.



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[troutdude]

"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done."

On December 2, 1859 John Brown was hanged after being found guilty of murder, treason, and inciting a slave insurrection for his raid on Harper's Ferry in October of that year