December 02, 2016 : Fire during a dance party at an Oakland warehouse kills 36
December 02, 2016 : Donald Trump takes a call with Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen, in a break from America'slongstanding "One China" policy
December 02, 2015 : Attack on a social services centre in San Bernardino, California kills 14 and wounds17
December 02, 2014 : Vanuatu police arrest at least 20 people over the deaths by hanging of two men accused of sorcery
December 02, 2014 : The World Food Programme suspends critical food aid to more than 1.7 million Syrianrefugeesin Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt because of a lack of funds
December 02, 2014 : Stephen Hawking claims that Artificial Intelligence could be a "threat to mankind" and spellthe end of the human race
December 02, 2014 : Hong Kong pro-democracy activists clash with police as they try to surround the government'sheadquarters in some of the worst violence since the protests began
December 02, 2014 : Elizabeth Lauten, an aide to a Republican congressman resigns after her online criticismofPresident Barack Obama's teenage daughters
December 02, 2014 : Comedian Bill Cosby resigns from the board of trustees of an American university following renewed sexual assault allegations
December 02, 2013 : China launches its first moon rover mission
December 02, 2013 : The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, 2nd film in the Hobbit series, directed by PeterJackson, starring Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen, premieres in Los Angeles
December 02, 2012 : Pier Luigi Bersani is elected Italian Prime Minister
December 02, 2012 : Borut Pahor is elected President of Slovenia
December 02, 2012 : 9 people are killed after 30 cars are trapped in Sasago Tunnel, Japan
December 02, 2008 : Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat resigns after the 2008 Thailand political crisis
December 02, 2007 : 96th Davis Cup: USA beats Russia in Oregon (4-1)
December 02, 2006 : 2nd ACC Championship Game: #16 Wake Forest beats #23 Georgia Tech, 9-6
December 02, 2006 : 15th SEC Championship Game: #4 Florida beats #8 Arkansas, 38-28
December 02, 2006 : 11th Big 12 Championship Game: #8 Oklahoma beats #19 Nebraska, 21-7
December 02, 2005 : Van Tuong Nguyen is executed in Singapore for drug trafficking.
December 02, 2001 : Tony Fernandes' company Tune Air Sdn Bhd buys the heavily indebted AirAsia for 1 MYR(aboutUSD 0.26 at the time)
December 02, 2001 : Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York
December 02, 2000 : 9th SEC Championship Game: #7 Florida beats #18 Auburn, 28-6
December 02, 2000 : 5th Big 12 Championship Game: #1 Oklahoma beats #8 Kansas State, 27-24
December 02, 1999 : The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern IrelandExecutive
December 02, 1997 : MCI Center opens in Washington, D.C., Wizards vs SuperSonics
December 02, 1995 : After being left in the game to allow nine goals, Patrick Roy declares "It's my lastgame inMontreal", and is traded four days later
December 02, 1995 : 4th SEC Championship Game: #2 Florida beats #23 Arkansas, 34-3
December 02, 1995 : 17th ACE Cable Awards: TLC wins the Golden CableACE for "KnowTV: Changing What, WhyandHowYou Watch"
December 02, 1994 : Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring
December 02, 1994 : Cruise liner Achille Lauro (Willem Ruys) sinks off the coast of Somalia
December 02, 1994 : Andrew Lloyd Webber admitted to hospital for ulcer treatment
December 02, 1994 : Cobb a film about baseball player Ty Cobb, starring Tommy Lee Jones premieres
December 02, 1993 : Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), launches
December 02, 1993 : Houston Rockets tie NBA record of 15-0 start
December 02, 1993 : Dow-Jones hits record 3702.11
December 02, 1993 : A Webster's musical "Sunset Promenade" premieres in LA
December 02, 1992 : WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in NYC
December 02, 1991 : Muslim Shi'ites release American hostage Joseph Cicippio held in Lebanon
December 02, 1991 : Bobby Bonilla signs record $29 million-5 year pact with NY Mets
December 02, 1990 : US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit
December 02, 1990 : First time 12 people in space at the same time
December 02, 1990 : First parliamentary election in newly reunified Germany
December 02, 1990 : Beth Daniel/Davis Love wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
December 02, 1990 : 79th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in St Petersburg (3-2)
December 02, 1989 : V. P. Singh sworn in as the 8th Prime Minister of India
December 02, 1989 : KHJ-TV in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KCAL-TV
December 02, 1989 : 55th Heisman Trophy Award: Andre Ware, Houston (QB)
December 02, 1989 : 54th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 30-20 in Auburn
December 02, 1988 : UN votes 151-2 (Israel and US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Great Britain abstains
December 02, 1988 : STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)
December 02, 1988 : 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet surrender in Israel
December 02, 1988 : Naked Gun movie based on TV's "Police Squad" premieres
December 02, 1987 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
December 02, 1987 : Jennifer Steele, 17, of Colorado becomes Miss Teen of America [Approx]
December 02, 1987 : Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor
December 02, 1987 : 334 club forms as 334 brave Devil fans journey through 20" of snow to attend NJ Devils07-Mayvictory over Calgary at Meadowlands
December 02, 1986 : Dow-Jones index hits record 1,955.57
December 02, 1985 : Rupert Holmes' musical "Mystery of Edwin Drood" premieres in NYC at Imperial TheaterNYC(608 performances)
December 02, 1985 : Philipine Chief of Staff General Fabian speaks of Benigno Aquino's murder
December 02, 1985 : NFL QB legends Dan Marino and John Elway face each other for the first time, a 30-26victoryfor the Dolphins (Marino 390 yards and 3 touchdowns)
December 02, 1985 : Chicago Bears' head coach Mike Ditka and defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan come to blowson the sideline in a loss to the Miami Dolphins, Chicago's only loss of the season
December 02, 1984 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
December 02, 1984 : Bob Holland takes 9-83 for NSW against South Australia, SCG
December 02, 1984 : 4th meeting of Giants-Jets, Giants even series at 2 with 20-10 win
December 02, 1982 : 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (U of Utah) in retired dentistBarneyClark; lived 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart
December 02, 1981 : Spanish government requests membership of NATO
December 02, 1981 : Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, opens at 11:30 AM
December 02, 1981 : Fernando Valenzuela (Dodgers) wins NL Rookie of the Year
December 02, 1980 : 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
December 02, 1979 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
December 02, 1979 : Foots Walker becomes 1st Cleveland Cavalier to score a triple-double
December 02, 1979 : Crowds attack US embassy in Tripoli, Libya
December 02, 1978 : Neil Diamond & Barbra Streisand's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" hits #1
December 02, 1978 : Anti-Shah protest in Tehran,protesters chant "Allah is great"
December 02, 1978 : 43rd Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 34-16 in Birmingham
December 02, 1976 : Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado
December 02, 1975 : Laos king Sisavang Vatthana resigns, Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (NationalDay)
December 02, 1975 : G S Chappell gets ton in each inn of 1st Test Cricket as capt v WI
December 02, 1975 : 7 South Moluccans hijack train at Wijster, Drente (NL), 3 killed
December 02, 1974 : Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days
December 02, 1974 : Giant Baba beats Jack Brisco in Kagoshimi, to become NWA champ
December 02, 1974 : Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs
December 02, 1973 : US Air Arena opens in Landover Maryland, Bullets beat Seattle, 98-96
December 02, 1973 : Capital Centre (USAir Arena) in Washington, D.C. opens
December 02, 1973 : 62nd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland (5-0)
December 02, 1972 : In 1 of their worst trades Yanks get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen
December 02, 1972 : 60th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 13-10
December 02, 1972 : 37th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 17-16 in Birmingham
December 02, 1972 : Via Galactica closes at Uris Theater NYC after 7 performances
December 02, 1972 : December Giant largest sinkhole in US collapses (Alabama)
December 02, 1971 : Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan is appointed President of the United Arab Emirates
December 02, 1971 : United Arab Emirates (Trucial States) declares independence from UK
December 02, 1971 : Soviet space probe Mars 3 is first to soft land on Mars
December 02, 1971 : Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah & Umm ak Qiwain form United Arab Emirates
December 02, 1970 : Michael Tippett's opera "The Knot Garden" premieres in London
December 02, 1970 : Environmental Protection Agency begins in the US under Director William Ruckelshaus
December 02, 1969 : Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to NYC)
December 02, 1969 : Buck White opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 7 performances
December 02, 1968 : US President Richard Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor
December 02, 1967 : 55th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 24-1
December 02, 1967 : 32nd Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 7-3 in Birmingham
December 02, 1966 : Love, Moby Grape & Lee Michaels perform at Fillmore East
December 02, 1964 : Ringo Starr's tonsils are removed
December 02, 1963 : ML Rules Committee bans oversized catcher's mitts, effective in 1965
December 02, 1963 : First Dutch rocket launched, reaches height of 10 km
December 02, 1963 : 1964 NFL Draft: Dave Parks from Texas Tech first pick by San Francisco 49ers
December 02, 1962 : 50th CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg beats Hamilton, 28-27 at Toronto [OT]
December 02, 1961 : Wind Bell, journal of San Francisco Zen Center, begins publishing
December 02, 1961 : Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist & will lead Cuba to Communism
December 02, 1961 : 26th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 34-0 in Birmingham
December 02, 1960 : Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovers 1.4 million year old Homo erectus (Olduvai Hominid 9) in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
December 02, 1959 : Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus
December 02, 1958 : KNOP TV channel 2 in North Platte, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting
December 02, 1958 : Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg
December 02, 1958 : 24th Heisman Trophy Award: Pete Dawkins, Army (HB)
December 02, 1958 : 1959 NFL Draft: Randy Duncan from University of Iowa first pick by Green Bay Packers
December 02, 1957 : Sam Cooke's single "You Send Me" reaches #1
December 02, 1957 : 1st US large scale nuclear power plant opens, Shippingport, Pennsylvania
December 02, 1957 : 1958 NFL Draft: King Hill from Rice first pick by Chicago Cardinals
December 02, 1956 : Fidel Castro lands with "Granma" on coast of Cuba
December 02, 1954 : US Senate censures Joeseph McCarthy (Sen-R-Wisc) for "conduct that tends to bring Senateinto dishonor & disrepute"
December 02, 1954 : Taiwan (ROC) & US sign the Mutual Defense Treaty, preventing Mainland China (PRC) from taking Taiwan between 1955-1979
December 02, 1954 : Frank Selvy of Milwaukee sets then NBA record of 24 of 26 free throws
December 02, 1954 : Hit the Trail opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 4 performances
December 02, 1952 : First human birth televised to public on KOA-TV Denver, Colorado
December 02, 1952 : 18th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Vessels, Oklahoma (HB)
December 02, 1951 : Philadelphia sets NFL record of 25 1st-downs rushing
December 02, 1951 : Don Hutson's #14 jersey is retired by the Green Bay Packers, the first number retired inthehistory of the franchise
December 02, 1951 : 16th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 25-7 in Birmingham
December 02, 1951 : Borscht Capades closes at Royale Theater NYC after 90 performances
December 02, 1950 : Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times in a title fight
December 02, 1950 : 15th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 34-0 in Birmingham
December 02, 1950 : I Robot collection of sci-fi short stories by Isaac Asimov published by Genome Press in the US
December 02, 1948 : Stan Musial is picked NL MVP
December 02, 1947 : 13th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lujack, Notre Dame (QB)
December 02, 1944 : US 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar
December 02, 1944 : German troops seize Betuwse dikes
December 02, 1944 : General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow
December 02, 1944 : 10th Heisman Trophy Award: Les Horvath, Ohio State (QB)
December 02, 1943 : First RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt -Nazi Reich Security Head Office) transport out ofVienna reaches Birkenau camp
December 02, 1942 : World’s 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction occurs in Chicagi Pile-1 (world's1stnuclear reactor) at the University of Chicago, overseen by Enrico Fermi
December 02, 1941 : US Naval Intelligence ceases bugging Japanese consul
December 02, 1941 : NY Giants name Mel Ott as player-manager, replacing Bill Terry
December 02, 1941 : Largest roller skating rink (outside of NYC) opens in Peekskill, New York
December 02, 1941 : Japanese Marshal Admiral Yamamoto sends his fleet to Pearl Harbor
December 02, 1941 : American mobster Louis Buchalter is sentenced to death along with his lieutenants Emanuel Weiss and Louis Capone
December 02, 1939 : NY's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago lands, 1 minuteafter midnight
December 02, 1939 : British Imperial Airways & British Airways merge to form BOAC
December 02, 1934 : 5.08-m (200") Mt Palomar Observatory mirror is cast
December 02, 1933 : Fred Astaire's 1st film, "Dancing Lady", released
December 02, 1932 : Adventures of Charlie Chan 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network
December 02, 1929 : First skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien
December 02, 1928 : Cardinals' 1B Jim Bottomley is voted NL MVP
December 02, 1927 : Paleoanthropologist Davidson Black announces to the Geological Society of China thattheancient human fossils from Zhoukoudian, China are a new species which he has named 'Sinanthropus pekinensis' (now known as 'Homo erectus')
December 02, 1927 : 1st Model A Ford sold, for $385
December 02, 1924 : British-German trade agreement signed
December 02, 1922 : 10th CFL Grey Cup: Queen's University defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 13-1
December 02, 1917 : Han Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea
December 02, 1916 : Baseballers who are injured now get full pay for duration of contract
December 02, 1914 : Austria army occupies Belgrade, Serbia
December 02, 1913 : French Government of Louis Barthou falls due to overtime conscription
December 02, 1913 : Archdiocese of Managua created
December 02, 1908 : Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two
December 02, 1907 : Tommy Burns KOs Gunner Moir in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
December 02, 1907 : English Professional Football Players' Association forms
December 02, 1902 : Soccer team Go Ahead forms in Deventer
December 02, 1901 : King C. Gillette begins selling safety razor blades
December 02, 1900 : Exiled South African President of Transvaal Paul Kruger arrives in Germany, though the Kaiser refuses to meet him
December 02, 1899 : US & Germany agree to divide Samoa between them
December 02, 1899 : Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", isfought.
December 02, 1896 : Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die versunkene Glocke" premieres in Berlin
December 02, 1895 : 54th Congress (1895-97) convenes
December 02, 1891 : 52nd Congress (1891-93) convenes
December 02, 1887 : French president Jules Grévy resigns
December 02, 1887 : Amsterdam's Oscar Carrés Circus Theater opens
December 02, 1885 : Opera "Regina di Saba" premieres in Vienna
December 02, 1883 : John Brahms' 3rd Symphony in F premieres
December 02, 1882 : Amsterdam Artis Zoo opens aquarium
December 02, 1877 : Camille Saint-Saëns' opera "Samson et Dalila" premieres in Weimar
December 02, 1868 : 1st British government of Benjamin Disraeli resigns
December 02, 1867 : In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading inthe United States
December 02, 1864 : Skirmish at Rocky Creek Church, Georgia
December 02, 1851 : French President Charles Louis Bonaparte in a Coup d'etat overthrows the Second Republicestablishing himself as Emperor.
December 02, 1848 : Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria & King of Hungary
December 02, 1845 : Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West
December 02, 1840 : William Henry Harrison elected the 9th President of the United States of America
December 02, 1840 : Gaetano Donizetti's opera "La Favorita" premieres in Paris
December 02, 1823 : President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine", a US foreign policy regardingLatin America
December 02, 1822 : In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US
December 02, 1816 : First savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)
December 02, 1813 : Prince Willem Frederik accepts constitutional monarchy
December 02, 1812 : James Madison re-elected President of the US, Elbridge Gerry Vice-President
December 02, 1805 : Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
December 02, 1804 : Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France in Paris
December 02, 1802 : Britain sells Suriname to the Netherlands
December 02, 1790 : Austrian army occupies Brussels
December 02, 1777 : British General Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4
December 02, 1763 : Touro shul of Newport, Rhode Island dedicated (oldest existing US synagogue)
December 02, 1755 : The second Eddystone Lighthouse on Eddystone Rocks off English southern coast is destroyed by fire
December 02, 1697 : St Paul's Cathedral, designed by Sir Christopher Wren is consecrated for use (previous building destroyed in the Great Fire of London)
December 02, 1682 : English Earl of Shaftesbury flees to Amsterdam
December 02, 1620 : English language newspaper "Namloos" begins publishing in Amsterdam
December 02, 1409 : The University of Leipzig opens
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