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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.
1805 - Napoleonic Wars : Battle of Austerlitz - French troops under Napoleon decisively defeat a joint Russo a href="Austria.html" title="Austria">Austrian force.
1823 - US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts (later be called the Monroe Doctrine ).
1845 - Manifest Destiny : US President James K. Polk 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 violently overthrows the Second Republic .
1852 - Napoleon III becomes Emperor of France .
1859 - Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th 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 .
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 economy .
1939 - La Guardia Airport opens for business in New York City .
1942 - Manhattan Project : A team led by Enrico Fermi initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction .
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 a href="Leninist.html" title="Leninist">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 - Gough Whitlam becomes the first Australian Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia for 23 years.
1975 - The communist Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos , and establishes the Lao People's Democratic Republic .
1982 - At the University of Utah , Barney Clark , becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart .
1988 - Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam ominated state.
1990 - A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German 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 the Hubble Space Telescope .
1999 - The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive .
2000 - The Smashing Pumpkins play their final gig.
2001 - Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy .
2004 - The Nintendo DS launches in Japan .
2004 - Brian Williams succeeds Tom Brokaw as host of NBC Nightly News .
2005 - Microsoft releases its Xbox 360 video game console in Europe .
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 )
1738 - Richard Montgomery , Irish-American soldier (d. 1775 )
1760 - John Breckinridge , American politician (d. 1806 )
1817 - Heinrich von Sybel , German historian (d. 1895 )
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, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950 )
1891 - Otto Dix , German painter and graphic artist (d. 1969 )
1892 - Leo Ornstein , Russian-born composer and pianist (d. 2002 )
1895 - Harriet Cohen , English pianist (d. 1967 )
1898 - Indra Lal Roy , Indian pilot (d. 1918 )
1899 - John Barbirolli , English conductor (d. 1970 )
1906 - Peter Goldmark , Hungarian-born inventor and 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 politician
1925 - Julie Harris , American actress
1930 - Gary Becker , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1931 - Edwin Meese , American politician
1933 - Michael Larrabee , American athlete (d. 2003 )
1934 - Andre Rodgers , baseball player (d. 2004 )
1939 - Yael Dayan , Israeli writer and politician
1939 - Harry Reid , American politician
1943 - Wayne Allard , American politician
1944 - Botho Strauß , German author
1945 - Penelope Spheeris , American film director
1946 - Gianni Versace , Italian fashion designer (d. 1997 )
1946 - John Banks , New Zealand politician
1952 - Michael McDonald , American musician
1954 - Dan Butler , American actor
1957 - Dagfinn Høybråten , Norwegian politician
1960 - Rick Savage , English bass player (Def Leppard )
1962 - Tracy Austin , American tennis player
1968 - Lucy Liu , American actress
1968 - Nate Mendel , American bassist (Foo Fighters )
1968 - Chris Wedge , American animator, creator of Ice Age and Robots
1973 - Monica Seles , Serbian-born tennis player
1973 - Jan Ullrich , German cyclist
1978 - Nelly Furtado , Canadian singer and songwriter
1979 - Yvonne Catterfield , German singer and actress
1981 - Britney Spears , American singer
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 , queen of William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1792 )
1859 - John Brown , American abolitionist (hanged) (b. 1800 )
1892 - Jay Gould , American entrepreneur (b. 1836 )
1931 - Vincent d'Indy , French composer (b. 1851 )
1944 - Josef Lhévinne , Russian pianist (b. 1874 )
1944 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti , Italian fascist (b. 1876 )
1950 - Dinu Lipatti , Romanian pianist (b. 1917 )
1963 - Thomas J. Hicks , American runner (b. 1875 )
1963 - Sabu , Indian-born actor (b. 1924 )
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 - Romain Gary , Lithuanian-born writer (b. 1914 )
1982 - Marty Feldman , English comedian (b. 1933 )
1983 - Fifi d'Orsay , French Canadian actress (b. 1904 )
1985 - Aniello Dellacroce , American gangster (b. 1914 )
1986 - Desi Arnaz , Cuban-born actor, musician, band leader, and composer (b. 1917 )
1987 - Luis Federico Leloir , French-born chemist, 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 - Big Daddy , English 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 - Alicia Markova , English ballerina (b. 1910 )
2004 - Mona Van Duyn , American poet (b. 1921 )
Holidays and observances
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