December 2

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2008 Calendar

December 2 is the 337th day of the year (338th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 28 days remaining until the end of the year.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

[change] Events

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: French troops under Napoleon defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
1823 - US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.
1845 - US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
1867 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
1908 - Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two
1930 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
1942 - Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
1943 - A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks an American ship with a mustard gas stockpile.
1954 - 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 - In a nationally-broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
1971 - Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
1972 - Gough Whitlam becomes Prime Minister of Australia
1972 - Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
1990 - A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German elections since 1932.
1999 - The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.