
December 2 is the 336th day (337th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 29 days remaining. ==Events== *1409 - The University of Leipzig opened. *1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire. *1804 - At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon I of France is crowned as the first Emperor of France in a thousand years. *1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz - France troops under Napoleon I of France decisively defeat a joint Russia-Austrian force. *1823 - US President James Monroe delivers a speech to the Congress of the United States, announcing a new policy of forbidding European interference in the Americas and establishing United States neutrality in future European conflicts (this would later be called the Monroe Doctrine). *1845 - Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the Monroe Doctrine should be strictly enforced and that the United States should aggressively expand into the West. *1848 - Franz Josef I of Austria becomes Emperor of Austria. *1851 - Newly-elected France President Charles Louis Bonaparte violently overthrows the Second Republic. *1852 - Napoleon III of France becomes Emperor of France. *1859 - Militant abolitionist leader John Brown (abolitionist) is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. *1867 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States. *1899 - Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought. *1915 - Albert Einstein publishes the general theory of relativity. *1927 - Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile. *1930 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economics. *1939 - La Guardia Airport opens for business in New York City. *1942 - Manhattan Project: Below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (a coded message, "The Italian navigator has landed in the new world" was then sent to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt). *1954 - Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." *1961 - Cold War: In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba was going to adopt Communism. *1962 - Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam 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 - The United Arab Emirates is formed. *1972 - Edward Gough Whitlam becomes the first Australian Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia for 23 years. He is famously sworn in on the election night and his first action using executive power is to withdraw all Australian personnel from the Vietnam War. *1975 - The communist Pathet Lao seizes power from the constitutional monarchy in the Kingdom of Laos, and establishes the Lao People's Democratic Republic. *1982 - At the University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark, becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart (he lived for 112 days with the device). *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-Germany elections since 1932. *1991 - The first version of QuickTime was released. *1993 - War on Drugs: Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín. * 1993 - Space Shuttle program: STS-61 - NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope. *1999 - The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to a the Northern Ireland Executive. *2000 - United States rock and roll band The Smashing Pumpkins play their final gig at The Metro in Chicago. *2001 - Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection five days after Dynegy canceled a US$8.4 billion buyout bid (as of 2003 this was the largest bankruptcy in the history of the United States). *2004 - The Nintendo DS launches in Japan. *2004 - Brian Williams (news anchor) succeeds Tom Brokaw as host of NBC Nightly News. ==Births== *1578 - Agostino Agazzari, composer and music theorist (d. 1640) *1694 - William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1771) *1703 - Ferdinand Konscak, Croat explorer (d. 1759) *1738 - Richard Montgomery, Ireland-United States soldier (d. 1775) *1760 - John Breckinridge, United States politician (d. 1806) *1817 - Heinrich von Sybel, historian (d. 1895) *1846 - Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau, France statesman (d. 1904) *1859 - Georges Seurat, painter (d. 1891) *1863 - Charles Ringling, circus leader (d. 1926) *1884 - Ruth Draper, United States character actress (d. 1956) *1885 - George Richards Minot, United States physician, winner of 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1950) *1891 - Otto Dix, painter and graphic artist (d. 1969) *1892 - Leo Ornstein, composer and pianist (d. 2002) *1895 - Harriet Cohen, pianist (d. 1967) *1899 - John Barbirolli, conductor (d. 1970) * 1899 - John R. Cobb, automobile racer (d. 1952) *1906 - Peter Goldmark, inventor, engineer (d. 1977) *1909 - Marion Countess Donhoff, publisher (d. 2002) *1914 - Ray Walston, actor (d. 2001) *1914 - Adolph Green, composer (d. 2002) *1923 - Maria Callas, opera singer (d. 1977) *1924 - Alexander M. Haig, Jr., American politician *1925 - Julie Harris, actress *1930 - Gary Becker, economist *1931 - Edwin Meese, American politician *1933 - Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003) *1934 - Andre Rodgers, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004) *1939 - Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician *1944 - Botho Strauss, author *1945 - Penelope Spheeris, director *1946 - Gianni Versace, designer (d. 1997) *1946 - John Banks (New Zealand), sometime New Zealand Cabinet Minister, then Mayor of Auckland from 2001 - 2004 *1952 - Michael McDonald, musician *1954 - Dan Butler, actor *1956 - Bob Kinnison, County politician (Winnebago County, Illinois) Member of MENSA *1957 - Dagfinn Høybråten, Norweigian politician *1960 - Rick 'Sav' Savage, Def Leppard bass player *1962 - Tracy Austin, tennis player *1968 - Lucy Liu, actress *1973 - Monica Seles, tennis player *1973 - Jan Ullrich, cyclist and winner of the 1997 Tour de France *1978 - Nelly Furtado, singer, songwriter *1979 - Yvonne Catterfield, German singer and actress *1981 - Britney Spears, singer *1985 - Liene Buldure, streaker ==Deaths== *1463 - Duke Albert VI of Austria *1547 - Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conqueror *1552 - Francis Xavier, Catholic missionary *1594 - Gerardus Mercator, cartographer *1774 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, composer and organist *1814 - Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, French writer *1849 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen of William IV of the United Kingdom *1859 - John Brown (abolitionist), American abolitionist (hanged) *1892 - Jay Gould, entrepreneur *1931 - Vincent d'Indy, French composer (b. 1851) *1944 - Josef Lhévinne, pianist *1950 - Dinu Lipatti, pianist *1963 - Thomas Hicks, American runner *1963 - Sabu (actor), Indian actor *1969 - Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, Russian politician *1974 - Max Weber (politician), Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897) *1976 - Danny Murtaugh, Major League Baseball player and manager (b. 1917) *1980 - Romain Gary, writer *1982 - Marty Feldman, comedian *1983 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress *1985 - Aniello Dellacroce, gangster (b. 1914) *1986 - Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor, musician, band leader, and composer *1987 - Yakov Borisovich Zel%27dovich, Soviet physicist (b. 1914) *1988 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) *1990 - Aaron Copland, American composer (b. 1900) *1993 - Pablo Escobar, drug dealer *1995 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist *1997 - Big Daddy (wrestler), wrestler * 2002 - Ivan Illich, priest and philosopher * 2002 - Arno Peters, historian * 2003 - Alan Davidson, author ==Holidays and observances== *Feast day of St Bibiana == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/2 BBC: On This Day] ---- December 1 - December 3 - November 2 - January 2 -- historical anniversaries la:2 Decembris
--User:Maveric149 00:54, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC) MediaWiki:December 2 selected anniversaries - MediaWiki talk:December 2 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=MediaWiki:December_2_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- Removed: *1958 - Benelux Economic Union formed. Could not be reliably confirmed. --User:Maveric149 05:43, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC) ---- Moved birth from article: *1971 - Skapheles, Buttonmen Player What's this? Looks like vanity. User:Lupo 10:55, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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December 2 is the 336th day (337th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 29 days remaining. ==Events== *1409 - The University of Leipzig opened. *1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire. *1804 - At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon I of France is crowned as the first Emperor of France in a thousand years. *1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz - France troops under Napoleon I of France decisively defeat a joint Russia-Austrian force. *1823 - US President James Monroe delivers a speech to the Congress of the United States, announcing a new policy of forbidding European interference in the Americas and establishing United States neutrality in future European conflicts (this would later be called the Monroe Doctrine). *1845 - Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the Monroe Doctrine should be strictly enforced and that the United States should aggressively expand into the West. *1848 - Franz Josef I of Austria becomes Emperor of Austria. *1851 - Newly-elected France President Charles Louis Bonaparte violently overthrows the Second Republic. *1852 - Napoleon III of France becomes Emperor of France. *1859 - Militant abolitionist leader John Brown (abolitionist) is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. *1867 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States. *1899 - Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought. *1915 - Albert Einstein publishes the general theory of relativity. *1927 - Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile. *1930 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economics. *1939 - La Guardia Airport opens for business in New York City. *1942 - Manhattan Project: Below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (a coded message, "The Italian navigator has landed in the new world" was then sent to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt). *1954 - Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." *1961 - Cold War: In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba was going to adopt Communism. *1962 - Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam 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 - The United Arab Emirates is formed. *1972 - Edward Gough Whitlam becomes the first Australian Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia for 23 years. He is famously sworn in on the election night and his first action using executive power is to withdraw all Australian personnel from the Vietnam War. *1975 - The communist Pathet Lao seizes power from the constitutional monarchy in the Kingdom of Laos, and establishes the Lao People's Democratic Republic. *1982 - At the University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark, becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart (he lived for 112 days with the device). *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-Germany elections since 1932. *1991 - The first version of QuickTime was released. *1993 - War on Drugs: Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín. * 1993 - Space Shuttle program: STS-61 - NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope. *1999 - The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to a the Northern Ireland Executive. *2000 - United States rock and roll band The Smashing Pumpkins play their final gig at The Metro in Chicago. *2001 - Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection five days after Dynegy canceled a US$8.4 billion buyout bid (as of 2003 this was the largest bankruptcy in the history of the United States). *2004 - The Nintendo DS launches in Japan. *2004 - Brian Williams (news anchor) succeeds Tom Brokaw as host of NBC Nightly News. ==Births== *1578 - Agostino Agazzari, composer and music theorist (d. 1640) *1694 - William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1771) *1703 - Ferdinand Konscak, Croat explorer (d. 1759) *1738 - Richard Montgomery, Ireland-United States soldier (d. 1775) *1760 - John Breckinridge, United States politician (d. 1806) *1817 - Heinrich von Sybel, historian (d. 1895) *1846 - Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau, France statesman (d. 1904) *1859 - Georges Seurat, painter (d. 1891) *1863 - Charles Ringling, circus leader (d. 1926) *1884 - Ruth Draper, United States character actress (d. 1956) *1885 - George Richards Minot, United States physician, winner of 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1950) *1891 - Otto Dix, painter and graphic artist (d. 1969) *1892 - Leo Ornstein, composer and pianist (d. 2002) *1895 - Harriet Cohen, pianist (d. 1967) *1899 - John Barbirolli, conductor (d. 1970) * 1899 - John R. Cobb, automobile racer (d. 1952) *1906 - Peter Goldmark, inventor, engineer (d. 1977) *1909 - Marion Countess Donhoff, publisher (d. 2002) *1914 - Ray Walston, actor (d. 2001) *1914 - Adolph Green, composer (d. 2002) *1923 - Maria Callas, opera singer (d. 1977) *1924 - Alexander M. Haig, Jr., American politician *1925 - Julie Harris, actress *1930 - Gary Becker, economist *1931 - Edwin Meese, American politician *1933 - Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003) *1934 - Andre Rodgers, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004) *1939 - Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician *1944 - Botho Strauss, author *1945 - Penelope Spheeris, director *1946 - Gianni Versace, designer (d. 1997) *1946 - John Banks (New Zealand), sometime New Zealand Cabinet Minister, then Mayor of Auckland from 2001 - 2004 *1952 - Michael McDonald, musician *1954 - Dan Butler, actor *1956 - Bob Kinnison, County politician (Winnebago County, Illinois) Member of MENSA *1957 - Dagfinn Høybråten, Norweigian politician *1960 - Rick 'Sav' Savage, Def Leppard bass player *1962 - Tracy Austin, tennis player *1968 - Lucy Liu, actress *1973 - Monica Seles, tennis player *1973 - Jan Ullrich, cyclist and winner of the 1997 Tour de France *1978 - Nelly Furtado, singer, songwriter *1979 - Yvonne Catterfield, German singer and actress *1981 - Britney Spears, singer *1985 - Liene Buldure, streaker ==Deaths== *1463 - Duke Albert VI of Austria *1547 - Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conqueror *1552 - Francis Xavier, Catholic missionary *1594 - Gerardus Mercator, cartographer *1774 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, composer and organist *1814 - Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, French writer *1849 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen of William IV of the United Kingdom *1859 - John Brown (abolitionist), American abolitionist (hanged) *1892 - Jay Gould, entrepreneur *1931 - Vincent d'Indy, French composer (b. 1851) *1944 - Josef Lhévinne, pianist *1950 - Dinu Lipatti, pianist *1963 - Thomas Hicks, American runner *1963 - Sabu (actor), Indian actor *1969 - Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, Russian politician *1974 - Max Weber (politician), Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897) *1976 - Danny Murtaugh, Major League Baseball player and manager (b. 1917) *1980 - Romain Gary, writer *1982 - Marty Feldman, comedian *1983 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress *1985 - Aniello Dellacroce, gangster (b. 1914) *1986 - Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor, musician, band leader, and composer *1987 - Yakov Borisovich Zel%27dovich, Soviet physicist (b. 1914) *1988 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) *1990 - Aaron Copland, American composer (b. 1900) *1993 - Pablo Escobar, drug dealer *1995 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist *1997 - Big Daddy (wrestler), wrestler * 2002 - Ivan Illich, priest and philosopher * 2002 - Arno Peters, historian * 2003 - Alan Davidson, author ==Holidays and observances== *Feast day of St Bibiana == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/2 BBC: On This Day] ---- December 1 - December 3 - November 2 - January 2 -- historical anniversaries la:2 Decembris
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--User:Maveric149 00:54, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC) MediaWiki:December 2 selected anniversaries - MediaWiki talk:December 2 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=MediaWiki:December_2_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- Removed: *1958 - Benelux Economic Union formed. Could not be reliably confirmed. --User:Maveric149 05:43, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC) ---- Moved birth from article: *1971 - Skapheles, Buttonmen Player What's this? Looks like vanity. User:Lupo 10:55, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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