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December 2 is the 336th day (337th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar . There are 29 days remaining.
Events
- 1409 - The University Of Leipzig opens.
- 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.
- 1804 - At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris , Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned as the first Emperor of France in a thousand years.
- - French troops under Napoleon defeat a joint Russo - Austria n force.
- delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.
- announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
- 1848 - Franz Josef I becomes Emperor Of Austria .
- 1851 - Newly-elected French President Charles Louis Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic .
- 1852 - Napoleon III becomes Emperor of France.
- 1859 - Militant Abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16 th raid on Harper's Ferry .
- 1867 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States .
- , termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
- 1927 - Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
- goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the Economy .
- 1939 - New York City 's La Guardia Airport opens.
- initiate the first self-sustaining Nuclear Chain Reaction .
- 1946 - British Government invited four Indian leaders, Nehru , Baldev Singh , Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly.
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- votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
- 1961 - In a nationally-broadcast speech, Cuba n leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist - Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism .
- at the request of US President John F. Kennedy , US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to not make an optimistic public comment on the war's progress.
- 1970 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
- 1971 - Abu Dhabi , Ajman , Fujairah , Sharjah , Dubai , and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates .
- 1972 - Gough Whitlam becomes the first Australian Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia for 23 years.
- 1975 - Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos , and establishes the Lao People's Democratic Republic .
- 1980 - Four U.S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford , Maura Clarke , Jean Donovan , and Dorothy Kazel , are murdered by a Death Squad in El Salvador .
- 1982 - At the University Of Utah , Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent Artificial Heart .
- 1984 - Bhopal Gas Tragedy in India
- 1988 - Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister Of Pakistan , becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam -dominated state.
- 1990 - A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all- German elections since 1932 .
- 1991 - Apple release the first version of QuickTime .
- 1993 - Colombia n Drug Lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín .
- 1993 - - NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope .
- 1999 - The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive .
- 2000 - The Smashing Pumpkins perform for the last time at The Metro in Chicago.
- 2001 - Enron files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy .
- 2004 - Brian Williams succeeds Tom Brokaw as host of '' NBC Nightly News ''.
- 2005 - Microsoft's Xbox 360 is launched in Europe.
- 2005 - Van Tuong Nguyen is executed in Singapore for Drug Trafficking .
- 2005 - Kenneth Boyd becomes the 1,000th person to be executed in the United States since Capital Punishment was reinstated in 1976 .
Births
- 1578 - Agostino Agazzari , Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1640 )
- 1694 - William Shirley , Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1771 )
- 1703 - Ferdinand Konscak , Croatian explorer (d. 1759 )
- 1710 - Bertinazzi , Italian actor and writer (d. 1783 )
- 1738 - Richard Montgomery , Irish-born soldier (d. 1775 )
- 1754 - William Cooper , American judge
- 1760 - John Breckinridge , American politician (d. 1806 )
- 1817 - Heinrich Von Sybel , German historian (d. 1895 )
- 1825 - Emperor Pedro II Of Brazil (d. 1891 )
- 1846 - Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau , French statesman (d. 1904 )
- 1859 - Georges Seurat , French painter (d. 1891 )
- 1863 - Charles Ringling , American circus owner (d. 1926 )
- 1885 - George Richards Minot , American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1950 )
- 1886 - Harry Burleigh , American composer (d. 1949 )
- 1891 - Otto Dix , German painter and graphic artist (d. 1969 )
- 1892 - Leo Ornstein , Russian-born composer and pianist (d. 2002 )
- 1895 - Harriet Cohen , British pianist (d. 1967 )
- 1898 - Indra Lal Roy , Indian pilot (d. 1918 )
- 1899 - John Barbirolli , British conductor (d. 1970 )
- 1901 - Raimundo Orsi , Argentine-born footballer (d. 1986 )
- 1906 - Peter Carl Goldmark , Hungarian-born recording engineer (d. 1977 )
- 1914 - Adolph Green , American composer (d. 2002 )
- 1914 - Ray Walston , American actor (d. 2001 )
- 1923 - Maria Callas , American soprano (d. 1977 )
- 1924 - Alexander M. Haig, Jr. , American soldier and politician
- 1925 - Julie Harris , American actress
- 1930 - Gary Becker , American economist, recipient of the Bank Of Sweden Prize
- 1931 - Edwin Meese , American politician
- 1933 - Michael Larrabee , American athlete (d. 2003 )
- 1933 - K.Veeramani , Indian anti-caste activist
- 1934 - Andre Rodgers , baseball player (d. 2004 )
- 1935 - David Hackett Fischer , American historian
- 1939 - Yael Dayan , Israeli writer and politician
- 1939 - Harry Reid , American politician
- 1943 - Wayne Allard , American politician
- 1944 - Ibrahim Rugova , first President Of Kosovo (d. 2006 )
- 1944 - Botho Strauß , German author
- 1945 - Penelope Spheeris , American film director
- 1946 - Gianni Versace , Italian fashion designer (d. 1997 )
- 1950 - Bob Kevoian , American radio personality
- 1954 - Dan Butler , American actor
- 1954 - Stone Phillips , American television journalist
- 1957 - Dagfinn Høybråten , Norwegian politician
- 1958 - Uladzimir Parfianovich , Belarusian canoer
- 1958 - Eric L. Harry , American novelist
- 1960 - Rick Savage , British bassist ( Def Leppard )
- 1966 - Jinsei Shinzaki , Japanese professional wrestler
- 1968 - Lucy Liu , American actress
- 1968 - Nate Mendel , American bassist ( Foo Fighters )
- 1968 - Chris Wedge , American animator
- 1970 - Sarah Silverman , American comedian
- 1971 - Wilson Jermaine Heredia , American actor
- 1972 - Sergei Zholtok , Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2004 )
- 1973 - Monica Seles , Yugoslavian-born tennis player
- 1973 - Jan Ullrich , German cyclist
- 1978 - Nelly Furtado , Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1978 - Chris Wolstenholme , British bassist ( Muse )
- 1979 - Yvonne Catterfeld , German singer and actress
- 1981 - Britney Spears , American singer
- 1982 - Matt Ware , American football player
- 1987 - Teairra Mari , African-American R&B singer
- 1988 - Alfred Enoch , British actor
Deaths
- 1348 - Emperor Hanazono of Japan (b. 1297 )
- 1381 - John Of Ruysbroeck , Flemish mystic
- 1463 - Archduke Albert VI Of Austria (b. 1418 )
- 1469 - Piero Di Cosimo De' Medici , ruler of Florence (b. 1416 )
- 1515 - Gonzalo Fernández De Córdoba , Spanish general and statesman (b. 1453 )
- 1547 - Hernán Cortés , Spanish explorer and conqueror (b. 1485 )
- 1552 - Francis Xavier , Spanish Catholic missionary (b. 1506 )
- 1594 - Gerardus Mercator , Flemish cartographer (b. 1512 )
- 1665 - Catherine De Vivonne, Marquise De Rambouillet , French socialite (b. 1588 )
- 1694 - Pierre Paul Puget , French artist (b. 1622 )
- 1719 - Pasquier Quesnel , French Jansenist theologian (b. 1634 )
- 1723 - Philip II, Duke Of Orléans , regent of France (b. 1674 )
- 1726 - Samuel Penhallow , English-born American colonist and historian (b. 1665 )
- 1747 - Vincent Bourne , English classical scholar (b. 1695 )
- 1748 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke Of Somerset , English politician (b. 1662 )
- 1774 - Johann Friedrich Agricola , German composer and organist (b. 1720 )
- 1814 - Marquis De Sade , French writer (b. 1740 )
- 1849 - Adelaide Of Saxe-Meiningen , wife of William IV Of The United Kingdom (b. 1792 )
- 1859 - John Brown , American abolitionist (hanged) (b. 1800 )
- 1860 - Alfred Bunn , British theatrical manager (b. 1796 )
- 1892 - Jay Gould , American entrepreneur (b. 1836 )
- 1918 - Edmond Rostand , French poet and dramatist (b. 1868 )
- 1931 - Vincent D'Indy , French composer (b. 1851 )
- 1943 - Nordahl Grieg , Norwegian author and journalist (b. 1902 )
- 1944 - Josef Lhévinne , Russian pianist (b. 1874 )
- 1944 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti , Italian writer (b. 1876 )
- 1950 - Dinu Lipatti , Romanian pianist (b. 1917 )
- 1957 - Harrison Ford , American actor (b. 1884 )
- 1957 - Manfred Sakel , Polish psychiatrist (b. 1902 )
- 1963 - Thomas J. Hicks , British-born runner (b. 1875 )
- 1963 - Sabu Dastagir , Indian-born American actor (b. 1924 )
- 1966 - Giles Cooper , Irish-born playwright (b. 1918 )
- 1968 - Adamson-Eric (Eric Adamson), Estonian painter (b. 1902 )
- 1969 - Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov , Russian politician (b. 1881 )
- 1974 - Max Weber , Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897 )
- 1976 - Danny Murtaugh , baseball player and manager (b. 1917 )
- 1980 - Chaudhry Muhammad Ali , Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1905 )
- 1980 - Romain Gary , Lithuanian-born French writer (b. 1914 )
- 1982 - Marty Feldman , British comedian, writer and actor (b. 1933 )
- 1983 - Fifi D'Orsay , Canadian actress (b. 1904 )
- 1985 - Aniello Dellacroce , American gangster (b. 1914 )
- 1985 - Philip Larkin , English writer and jazz critic (b. 1922 )
- 1986 - Desi Arnaz , Cuban-born actor, musician, band leader, and composer (b. 1917 )
- 1987 - Luis Federico Leloir , French-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906 )
- 1987 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich , Russian physicist (b. 1914 )
- 1988 - Tata Giacobetti , Italian singer and lyricist ( Quartetto Cetra )
- 1990 - Aaron Copland , American composer (b. 1900 )
- 1993 - Pablo Escobar , Colombian drug dealer (b. 1949 )
- 1995 - Robertson Davies , Canadian novelist (b. 1913 )
- 1997 - Shirley Crabtree , British professional wrestler (b. 1930 )
- 2002 - Ivan Illich , Austrian priest and philosopher (b. 1926 )
- 2002 - Arno Peters , German historian (b. 1916 )
- 2003 - Alan Davidson , British author (b. 1924 )
- 2004 - Mona Van Duyn , American poet (b. 1921 )
- 2004 - Alicia Markova , British ballerina (b. 1910 )
- 2005 - Van Tuong Nguyen , Australian drug smuggler (hanged) (b. 1980 )
- 2005 - Kenneth Lee Boyd , American convicted murderer (executed) (b. 1948 )
Holidays and observances
External links
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