On this day :

2001 Enron files for bankruptcy, 1777 Philadelphia nurse overhears British plans to attack Washington, 2002 Toyotas first hydrogen fuelcell vehicles arrive in California, 1864 General Gracie killed at Petersburg, 1961 Castro declares himself a MarxistLeninist, 1991 Kennedy cousin rape trial begins, 1959 Dam collapses in France killing 412, 1804 Napoleon crowned emperor, 1823 Monroe Doctrine declared, 1859 John Brown hanged, 1954 McCarthy condemned by Senate, 1997 Affleck and Damons Good Will Hunting debuts, 1793 Coleridge joins the cavalry, 1972 The Temptations earn their final 1 hit with Papa Was A Rolling Stone, 1845 Polk affirms Monroe Doctrine, 1823 Monroe introduces bold new foreign policy, 1975 Archie Griffin wins second consecutive Heisman Trophy, 1962 Senator Mansfield pronounces American aid to South Vietnam wasted, 1963 South Vietnamese leaders order a temporary halt to the strategic hamlet program, 1917 Russia reaches armistice with the Central Powers, 1942 Fermi produces the first nuclear chain reaction,