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, 28,884,960 minutes 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.
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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
- 1763 –Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what became the United States.
- 1845 –Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
- 1848 –Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.
- 1851 –French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on December 2?
- 1710 –Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)
- 1886 –Harry Burleigh, American composer (d. 1949)
- 1901 –Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-born footballer (d. 1986)
- 1906 –Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born recording engineer (d. 1977)
- 1914 –Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)
- 1950 –Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian academic
- 1963 –Brendan Coyle, English actor
- 1972 –Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
- 1978 –David Rivas, Spanish footballer
- 1985 –Dorell Wright, American basketball player
Who died on December 2?
- 1726 –Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (b. 1665)
- 1774 –Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer and organist (b. 1720)
- 1859 –John Brown, American abolitionist (b. 1800)
- 1985 –Philip Larkin, English writer and jazz critic (b. 1922)
- 1993 –Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug trafficker (b. 1949)
- 1995 –Roxie Roker, American actress (b. 1929)
- 2004 –Alicia Markova, British ballerina (b. 1910)
- 2005 –Van Tuong Nguyen, Thai-born Australian drug smuggler (b. 1980)
- 2005 –William P. Lawrence, American naval officer (b. 1930)
- 2008 –Edward Samuel Rogers, Canadian entrepreneur (b. 1933)
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