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December 2nd, 1954
In Washington, the U.S. Senate takes the rare step of condemning one of its own, Joseph McCarthy, Republican of Wisconsin. McCarthy is [-----1-----] after his anti-communist crusade adds his tactics [-----2-----].

1942
At the University of Chicago, scientists demonstrate the world’s first artificially-created [-----3-----]. Their work is part of the Manhattan Project, [-----4-----] during World War II.

2001
One-time energy giant Enron [-----5-----] in U.S. history.

1993
In Columbia, Pablo Escobar, one of the world’s most notorious drug lords is shot to death by security forces in Medellin.

And 1982
In Salt Lake City, Barney Clark receives [-----6-----]. Dr. Robert Jarvik is the inventor of the device implanted into Clark’s chest. Clark lives 112 days with the artificial heart after the operation at the University of Utah Medical Center.

Today in History, December 2nd, Ed Donahue, the Associated Press.
censured for bringing the Senate into disrepute come under fire self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction the top secret of American-led effort to develop nuclear weapons files for Chapter 11 Protection in one of the largest corporate bankruptcies a permanent artificial heart in the first operation of its kind