Today in history, inventions galore: The Model A car, a transatlantic phone line and an artificial heart
On this date, Dec. 2, in history: In 1552, St. Francis Xavier, the founder of the Jesuits, died while on a missionary journey to China. In 1804, Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French. In 1805, the French army under Napoleon defeated the combined Austrian and Russian armies at the battle of Austerlitz, near Vienna. […]