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  • Napoleon is crowned Emperor of the French at Notre-Dam on December 2, 1804, painting by Jacques-Louis David

    Coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte

    1804 Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of the French at Notre Dame de Paris in a ceremony officiated by Pope Pius VII
  • 1823 US President James Monroe declares the "Monroe Doctrine" opposing European colonialism in the Americas, arguing any European political intervention in the New World would be a hostile act against the United States
  • 1845 US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West, a widely held belief termed "manifest destiny" by newspaper editor John O'Sullivan
  • 1929 The first skull of Peking Man is found in the caves of Zhoukoudian, 50 km outside of Peking, China, and is later dated to be roughly 750,000 years old [1]
  • 1976 Communist revolutionary Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado
  • 1988 Benazir Bhutto becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan, the first female leader of a Muslim country
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  • 1952 The first human birth is televised to the public on KOA-TV Denver, Colorado
  • 1883 Johannes Brahms' "Symphony No. 3 in F major" premieres with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
  • 1907 Association of Football Players' and Trainers' Union (English Professional Football Players' Association) is formed by Charlie Roberts and Billy Meredith in Manchester, England

Doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implant a permanent artificial heart in the chest of retired dentist Dr. Barney Clark, who lives for 112 days with the device

December 2, 1982

  • Richard Montgomery

    1738 - 1775

  • Georges Seurat

    1859 - 1891

  • Alexander Haig

    1924 - 2010

  • Harry Reid

    1939 - 2021

  • Gianni Versace

    1946 - 1997

  • Edwin Meese

    94 Years Old
More Birthdays on December 2

  • Peter Carl Goldmark

    1906 - 1977

  • Adolph Green

    1914 - 2002

  • Maria Callas

    1923 - 1977

  • Nelly Furtado

    47 Years Old

  • Britney Spears

    44 Years Old

  • Charlie Puth

    34 Years Old

  • Monica Seles

    52 Years Old

  • Aaron Rodgers

    42 Years Old

The first Model A Ford sells for $385

December 2, 1927

  • 1886 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt (28) weds second wife Edith Kermit Carow (25) in London
  • 1926 Film director and producer Alfred Hitchcock (27) weds director Alma Reville (27) at Brompton Oratory in London
  • 1933 1st transatlantic telephone wedding (Bertil Clason-Sigrid Carlson)
More December 2 Weddings

  • Hernán Cortés

    - 1547

  • Marquis de Sade

    1740 - 1814

  • John Brown

    1800 - 1859

  • Desi Arnaz

    1917 - 1986

  • Pablo Escobar

    1949 - 1993

  • Neale Fraser

    1933 - 2024
More December 2 Deaths
  • The original Broadway cast of South Pacific – the first million-selling LP

    Goodbye Scratchy 78s, Hello Vinyl

    Peter Goldmark will most be remembered for creating the long-playing vinyl record. But his many inventions earned him America’s National Medal of Science. December 2, 1906
  • USS Arizona ablaze and sinking after the attack on Pearl Harbor

    Weekly Quiz for December 2 - 8

    What did FDR call Pearl Harbor in a speech to Congress a day after the attack? What was patented in the US in 1909 sparking the birth of the plastics industry?
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  • Burial of Henry I at Reading Abbey painted by Harry Morley. Photo: Reading Museum

    Fish Dish Finishes Off a King

    December 1, 1135
  • Beeton's Christmas Annual: A Study in Scarlett

    How the First Sherlock Holmes Story was Sold for a Song

    December 1, 1887
  • The only known photograph of Flannelfoot – a smiling Harry Vickers in military uniform

    Flannelfoot, The False Teeth Filcher

    December 3, 1937
  • Dioscorus, the enraged father, raises his sword to decapitate his daughter Barbara

    The Beheading of Saint Barbara

    December 4, 306 AD
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