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.
- 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.
- 1804 –At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
- 1823 –Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.
- 1851 –French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
- 1927 –Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
- 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 –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”.
- 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 not to make an optimistic public comment on the war’s progress.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2001 –Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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