What are the important events that happened on December 2? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
December 2: Facts & Myths About This Day
December 2 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 19, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,733,097,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatriacontaheptagon’ day.
Sagittarius is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,364 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 2 Historical Events
- 1804 –At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
- 1845 –Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
- 1939 –New York City’s La Guardia Airport opens.
- 1942 –Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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-dominated state.
- 1993 –Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.
- 1999 –Glenbrook rail accident near Sydney, New South Wales.
Who were born on December 2?
- 1578 –Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1640)
- 1923 –Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)
- 1935 –David Hackett Fischer, American historian
- 1943 –Wayne Allard, American politician
- 1944 –Dionysis Savvopoulos, Greek musician and songwriter
- 1947 –Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer (Les Variations)
- 1963 –Rich Sutter, Canadian hockey player
- 1982 –Pizon, American rapper/producer
- 1986 –Tal Wilkenfeld, Australian electric bass player
- 1988 –Alfred Enoch, British actor
Who died on December 2?
- 1515 –Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (b. 1453)
- 1936 –John Ringling, American circus owner (b. 1866)
- 1950 –Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (b. 1917)
- 1953 –Reginald Baker, Australian athlete and actor (b. 1884)
- 1957 –Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (b. 1902)
- 1963 –Sabu Dastagir, Indian-born American actor (b. 1924)
- 1987 –Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
- 2002 –Arno Peters, German historian (b. 1916)
- 2004 –Alicia Markova, British ballerina (b. 1910)
- 2005 –Van Tuong Nguyen, Thai-born Australian drug smuggler (b. 1980)
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