History Events on December 02
Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a $150 million (equivalent to $2,250,000,000 in 2018) public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
#Great_Depression
Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm al-Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
#Emirate_of_Abu_Dhabi
Korean War: Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River ended, with decisive Chinese victory, UN forces were completely expelled from North Korea.
#Korean_War
Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
#McCarthyism
French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
#Napoleon_III
At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
#Tremont_Temple
Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
#Enron
World War I: Russia and the Central Powers sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk, and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk begin.
#World_War_I
Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.
#Puyi
Manifest destiny: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
#Manifest_destiny
Salvadoran Civil War: Four American missionaries are raped and murdered by a death squad.
#Salvadoran_Civil_War
Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
#Space_Shuttle_program
San Bernardino attack: Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik kill 14 people and wound 22 at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California.
#2015_San_Bernardino_attack
Pope Innocent IV arrives at Lyon for the First Council of Lyon
#Pope_Innocent_IV
The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.
#Sino-American_Mutual_Defense_Treaty
Canada and Poland become the first nations to recognize the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union.
#Ukraine
Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
#Ford_Model_T
Franz Joseph I becomes Emperor of Austria.
#Franz_Joseph_I_of_Austria
St Paul's Cathedral is consecrated in London.
#St_Paul's_Cathedral
Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
#Philippine-American_War
Laotian Civil War: The Pathet Lao seizes the Laotian capital of Vientiane, forces the abdication of King Sisavang Vatthana, and proclaims the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
#Laotian_Civil_War
Monroe Doctrine: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James Monroe proclaims American neutrality in future European conflicts, and warns European powers not to interfere in the Americas.
#Monroe_Doctrine
World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
#World_War_II
New York City's LaGuardia Airport opens.
#LaGuardia_Airport
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French as Napoleon III.
#Napoleon_III
World War II: A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including the American SS John Harvey, which is carrying a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.
#Air_raid_on_Bari
Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
#Fidel_Castro
Alabama ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed by North Carolina then Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks
#Alabama
Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others is adopted.
#Convention_for_the_Suppression_of_the_Traffic_in_Persons_and_of_the_Exploitation_of_the_Prostitution_of_Others
In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
#Cuba
Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
#Benazir_Bhutto
The Granma reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente Province. Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
#Granma_(yacht)
Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what will become the United States.
#Touro_Synagogue
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.
#Colombia
Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
#Abolitionism_in_the_United_States
The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
#United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency
The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive following the Good Friday Agreement.
#Northern_Ireland
Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to comment adversely on the war's progress.
#Vietnam_War
War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Austerlitz: French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte decisively defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
#War_of_the_Third_Coalition