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December 2

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In 1804, Napoleon was crowned emperor of France in a glittering ceremony at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.

In 1816, the first savings bank in the United States, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, opened for business.

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 Barney Clark.  He lived for 112 days with the device.

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Actor-playwright Adolph Green  (1915)

Former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig  (1924)

Actress Julie Harris  (1925)

Former Attorney General Edwin Meese  (1931)

Tennis player Tracy Austin  (1962)

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"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself."
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D.H. Lawrence, English author  (1885-1930)