What happened today, and who was born/died

BIRTHS
12/02/1859
   Georges Seurat, French painter, pointillist
12/02/1885
   George Minot, US physician, worked on anemia (Nobel 1934)
12/02/1885
   N¡kos Kazantazak¡s, Greek writer (Zorba the Greek)
12/02/1906
   Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records.
12/02/1914
   Ray Walston, actor (South Pacific, The Sting)
12/02/1915
   Will Randolph Hearst, publisher, castle builder
12/02/1923
   Maria Callas, NY opera singer
EVENTS
12/02/
  Pan American Health Day
12/02/1804
   Napoleon becomes the first French emperor, crowning himself.
12/02/1805
   Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
12/02/1816
   1st savings bank in US opens as the Philadelphia Savings Fund
12/02/1823
   President James Monroe declares his doctrine.
12/02/1942
   1st controlled nuclear reaction at University of Chicago.
12/02/1957
   first commercial atomic electric power plant goes to work in PA.
12/02/1971
   Soviet Mars 3 is first to soft land on Mars
12/02/1975
   Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
12/02/1982
   1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted.

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