About December 2
December 2, 2025 is the 336th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 29 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 77 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.
- 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.
- 1804 –At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
- 1805 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz – French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
- 1845 –Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
- 1851 –French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
- 1852 –Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French (Napoleon III).
- 1899 –Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed “The Filipino Thermopylae”, is fought.
- 1917 –An armistice is signed between Russia and the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk began.
- 1920 –Following more than a month of Turkish-Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.
- 1939 –New York City’s La Guardia Airport opens.
- 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.
- 1946 –The British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly.
- 1954 –The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic of China, is signed in Washington, D.C.
- 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.
- 1988 –Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
- 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.
- 1999 –Glenbrook rail accident near Sydney, New South Wales.
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