About December 2
December 2, 2024 is the 337th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 29 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 58 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 2
- 1409 –The University of Leipzig opens.
- 1755 –The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.
- 1763 –Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what became the United States.
- 1775 –The USS Alfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.
- 1823 –Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.
- 1908 –Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two
- 1920 –Following more than a month of Turkish-Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.
- 1927 –Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
- 1943 –A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including an American Liberty ship, the John Harvey, with a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.
- 1947 –Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
- 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”.
- 1956 –The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba’s Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
- 1961 –In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
- 1970 –The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
- 1975 –Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
- 1976 –Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
- 1982 –At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
- 1993 –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.
- 2001 –Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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