2 December

The 2nt o December is the 336t day o the year (337t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 29 days bidin.

 Events 
 1409 - The Varsity o Leipzig is foondit.
 1697 - The new St. Paul's Cathedral in Lunnon, designed bi Christopher Wren, opens.
 1804 - Napoleon I crouns hisself Emperor o the French.
 1848 - Franz Joseph I o Austrick becomes Emperor.
 1852 - Napoleon III crouns hisself Emperor o Fraunce.
 1908 - Puyi ascends the Cheenese throne.
 1942 - Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustainin nuclear chain reaction.
 1956 - Fidel Castro an 80 revolutionaries laund in Oriente province, Cuba.
 1959 - The Malpasset-dam in soothren Fraunce breaks, killin 421 fowk.
 1971 - The Unitit Arab Emirates are formed.
 1976 - Fidel Castro becomes Preses o Cuba.
 1988 - A cyclone devastates Bangladesh.
 1990 - A coalition led bi Helmut Kohl wins the first elections in a reunitit Germany.
 1993 - Colombie drug boss Pablo Escobar is shot deed bi polis.
 1999 - Northren Ireland gets increased autonomy.
 2010 - Roushie an Qatar get the richts tae host the 2018 an 2022 FIFA Warld Cups respectively.
 2019 - Poleetical leaders meet in Madrid for climate chynge talks.

 Births 
 1822 - David Masson, Scots academic, leeterar creetic an historian (d. 1907)
 1825 - Pedro II o Brazil (d. 1891)
 1837 - Joseph Bell, Scots surgeon (d. 1911)
 1859 - Georges Seurat, French penter (d. 1891)
 1891 - Otto Dix, German airtist (d. 1969)
 1923 - Maria Callas, Greek-American soprano (d. 1977)
 1924 - Alexander Haig, 59t Unitit States Secretar o State (d. 2010)
 1925 - Julie Harris, American actress (d. 2013)
 1930 - Gary Becker, American economist (d. 2014)
 1939 - Harry Reid, American politeecian
 1946 - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (d. 1997)
 1948 - Patricia Hewitt, Inglis politeecian
 1968 - Lucy Liu, American actress
 1973 - Monica Seles, Yugoslavie-American tennis player
 1973 - Jan Ullrich, German cyclist
 1975 - Mark McLaughlin, Scots fitbawer
 1978 - Nelly Furtado, Canadian sangster
 1981 - Britney Spears, American sangster
 1983 - Chris Burke, Scots fitbawer
 1988 - Stephen McGinn, Scots fitbawer
 1989 - Richard Tait, Scots fitbawer

 Daiths 
 1547 - Hernán Cortés, Spaingie conquistador (b. 1485)
 1594 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mapmaker (b. 1512)
 1814 - Marquis de Sade, French philosopher (b. 1740)
 1944 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet, editor an airt theorist (b. 1876)
 1947 - John Campbell, Scots fitbawer (b. 1871)
 1985 - Philip Larkin, Inglis poet (b. 1922)
 1993 - Pablo Escobar, Colombie droglaird (b. 1949)
 2001 - Willie Woodburn, Scots fitbawer (b. 1919)
 2007 - Thomas F. Torrance, Scots theologian (b. 1913)
 2009 - Eric Woolfson, Scots sangwriter (b. 1945)
 2020 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Preses o Fraunce (b. 1926)

 Halidays 
 Naitional Day o Laos
 Naitional Day o the Unitit Arab Emirates

Category:Days o the year