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TODAY - Dec 02, 2025

Thought of the Day

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

Today's Birthday

William Ellery
William Ellery Lawyer, American(1727)

A merchant-cum-lawyer who was one of the Founding Fathers of America and signed the famous Declaration of Independence as a representative of Rhode Island.

 
George Minot
George Minot Medical Researcher, American(1885)

An eminent American medical researcher, who won the Nobel Prize in 1934 for his revolutionary achievement Anemia with George Hoyt Whipple and William P. Murphy.

 
Peter C. Goldmark
Peter C. Goldmark Engineer, Hungarian(1940)

An environmentalist who worked in a variety of fields, including governmental administration, philanthropy, and journalism was the most important inventors of sound recording and television technology history

 
Britney Spears
Britney Spears Singer, American(1981)

An American singer, actress and record artist.

 
Alexander Haig
Alexander Haig Army officer, American(1924)

The United States Army officer, secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan , and White House chief of staff during the final months of the administration of President Richard M.

This day in History

1823

During his annual address to Congress, President James Monroe proclaims a new U.S. foreign policy initiative that becomes known as the Monroe Doctrine.

1859

In Charlestown, Va., militant abolitionist John Brown is executed for his raid on a Harpers Ferry arsenal.

1877

French physicist Louis Paul liquefies oxygen; he later liquefies hydrogen, nitrogen and air.

1942

Italian physicist Enrico Fermi produces the first nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago.

2001

Houston-based Energy Company Enron files for bankruptcy. Less than a year before, Enron had ranked seventh among American companies in terms of revenue.

Man who made the difference

Alexander Haig (1924-2010)

Alexander Haig

The United States Army officer, secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan (1981-1989), and White House chief of staff during the final months of the administration of President Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974) was born on December 2, 1924, in Pennsylvania, United States. In 1947, he graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point and in 1961, he earned a master's degree. In 1966, he attended the Army War College. He was appointed as a military adviser on the National Security Council. When Nixon's top two aides White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman and domestic policy adviser John Ehrlichman resigned in 1973 amid growing evidence of their involvement in the Watergate cover-up, Haig reluctantly left the military to become Nixon's chief of staff. Haig reportedly played a significant role in talking the president into resigning, which Nixon did on August 9, 1974. Six weeks later, Haig resumed his military career as supreme allied commander of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces in Europe. Haig was appointed secretary of state in 1981 during President Reagan's first term in office, but resigned in 1982 amid disagreements with other administration officials. He wrote one book about the Reagan administration, Caveat: Realism, Reagan, and Foreign Policy (1984), and ran an unsuccessful bid for the 1988 Republican nomination for president. In 1992 Haig published his memoirs, Inner Circles: How America Changed the World. He died on February 20, 2010, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.


Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal