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December 2 is the 336th day of the year (337th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 29 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1409 – The University of Leipzig opens.
• 1755 – The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.
• 1763 – Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what became the United States.
• 1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
• 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz – French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
• 1818 – Illinois became 21st state
• 1823 – Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.
• 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.
• 1852 – Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French (Napoleon III).
• 1859 – Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry.
• 1867 – At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
• 1899 – Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
• 1908 – Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two
• 1917 – An armistice was signed between Russia and the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk began.
• 1920 – Following more than a month of Turkish-Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.
• 1927 – Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
• 1930 – Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
• 1939 – New York City's La Guardia Airport opens.
• 1942 – Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
• 1943 – A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including an American Liberty ship, the John Harvey, with a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.
• 1946 – The British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly.
• 1947 – Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
• 1954 – Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
• 1954 – The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic of China, is signed in Washington, D.C..
• 1956 – The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
• 1961 – In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
• 1962 – Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official not to make an optimistic public comment on the war's progress.

1968 – Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special airs nationwide on NBC.*1970 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.

• 1971 – Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
• 1972 – Gough Whitlam becomes the first Labor Prime Minister of Australia for 23 years.
• 1975 – Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
• 1976 – Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
• 1977 – The first World Series Cricket "supertest" match played between Australia and West Indies
• 1980 – Four U.S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador.
• 1983 – Michael Jackson's Thriller music video is released.
• 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
• 1990 – A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German elections since 1932.
• 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.
• 1999 – The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.
• 2001 – Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• 2008 – Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat resigns after the 2008 Thailand political crisis.

Births

• 1578 – Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1640)
• 1694 – William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1771)
• 1703 – Ferdinand Konscak, Croatian explorer (d. 1759)
• 1710 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)
• 1738 – Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (d. 1775)
• 1754 – William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)
• 1760 – John Breckinridge, American politician (d. 1806)
• 1811 – Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885)
• 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895)
• 1825 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (d. 1891)
• 1846 – Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (d. 1904)
• 1859 – Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891)
• 1863 – Charles Ringling, American circus owner (d. 1926)
• 1884 – Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand lawyer and judge (d. 1953)
• 1885 – George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1950)
• 1886 – Harry Burleigh, American composer (d. 1949)
• 1891 – Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1969)
• 1891 – Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. (d. 1987)
• 1893 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (d. 2002)
• 1894 – Warren William, American Broadway and film actor (d. 1948)
• 1895 – Harriet Cohen, British pianist (d. 1967)
• 1897 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Marshall of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
• 1898 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918)
• 1899 – John Barbirolli, British conductor (d. 1970)
• 1899 – John Cobb, British racing driver (d. 1952)
• 1899 – Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989)
• 1901 – Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-born footballer (d. 1986)
• 1906 – Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born recording engineer (d. 1977)
• 1910 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine (d. 1991)
• 1914 – Bill Erwin, American actor
• 1914 – Adolph Green, American composer (d. 2002)
• 1914 – Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1915 – Prince Mikasa, Japanese royal
• 1917 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (d. 1992)
• 1921 – Carlo Furno, Cardinal Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
• 1922 – Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek poet, playwright, lyricist, and novelist
• 1923 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)
• 1924 – Alexander Haig, American soldier and politician (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (d. 2006)
• 1925 – Julie Harris, American actress
• 1930 – Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize
• 1930 – David Piper, British race car driver
• 1931 – Nigel Calder, British science writer
• 1931 – Hatsumi Masaaki, founder and head of the Bujinkan Dojo organization
• 1931 – Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (d. 1971)
• 1931 – Edwin Meese, American lawyer, U.S. attorney general and presidential advisor
• 1933 – Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)
• 1933 – K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist
• 1934 – Tarcisio Bertone, Cardinal Secretary of State and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church
• 1934 – Sissela Bok, Swedish philosopher and ethicist
• 1934 – Andre Rodgers, baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1935 – David Hackett Fischer, American historian
• 1939 – Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician
• 1939 – Francis Fox, Canadian politician, member of the Senate
• 1939 – Harry Reid, American politician
• 1943 – Wayne Allard, American politician
• 1944 – Inger Davidson, Swedish politician
• 1944 – Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)
• 1944 – Dionysis Savvopoulos, Greek musician and songwriter
• 1944 – Botho Strauß, German author
• 1945 – Penelope Spheeris, American film director
• 1946 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (d. 1997)
• 1947 – Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer (Les Variations)
• 1947 – Tommy Jenkins, English football player
• 1947 – Ivan Atanassov Petrov, Bulgarian neurologist
• 1948 – T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer
• 1950 – Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd on Whale Wars.
• 1950 – Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian academic
• 1950 – Benjamin Stora, French historian
• 1950 – Bob Kevoian, American radio personality
• 1951 – Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher
• 1952 – Carol Shea-Porter, American Congresswoman
• 1954 – Dan Butler, American actor
• 1954 – Stone Phillips, American television journalist
• 1956 – Steven Bauer, American actor
• 1957 – Dagfinn Høybråten, Norwegian politician
• 1958 – Uladzimir Parfianovich, Belarusian canoer
• 1958 – George Saunders, American writer
• 1960 – Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (d. 1984)
• 1960 – Rick Savage, British bassist (Def Leppard)
• 1962 – Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, titular Bulgarian royal family
• 1963 – Dan Gauthier, American actor
• 1963 – Ann Patchett, American novelist
• 1963 – Ron Sutter, National Hockey League player
• 1963 – Rich Sutter, National Hockey League player
• 1966 – Jinsei Shinzaki, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1968 – Darryl Kile, baseball player (d. 2002)
• 1968 – Lucy Liu, American actress
• 1968 – Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters)
• 1968 – Rena Sofer, American actress
• 1968 – Chris Wedge, American animator
• 1970 – Treach, American rapper (Naughty by Nature)
• 1970 – Yang Hyun Suk, South Korean record producer
• 1971 – Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor
• 1971 – Francesco Toldo, Italian Football Player
• 1972 – Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
• 1973 – Graham Kavanagh, Irish footballer
• 1973 – Monica Seles, Yugoslavian-born tennis player
• 1973 – Jan Ullrich, German cyclist
• 1976 – Eddy Garabito, Dominican baseball player
• 1976 – Masafumi Gotō, Japanese singer (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)
• 1977 – Siyabonga Nomvethe, South African footballer
• 1978 – Melissa Archer, American actress
• 1978 – Jarron Collins, American basketball player
• 1978 – Jason Collins, American basketball player
• 1978 – Nelly Furtado, Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter
• 1978 – Peter Moylan, Australian baseball player
• 1978 – Maëlle Ricker, Canadian snowboarder, Olympic Gold Medalist
• 1978 – David Rivas, Spanish footballer
• 1978 – Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist (Muse)
• 1979 – Yvonne Catterfeld, German singer and actress
• 1979 – Michael McIndoe, Scottish professional footballer
• 1980 – Adam Kreek, Canadian rower
• 1981 – Britney Spears, American singer and entertainer
• 1981 – Danijel Pranjić, Croatian football player
• 1981 – Isabella Soprano, American porn star
• 1982 – Michelle Banzer, model/beauty queen
• 1982 – Christos Karipidis, Greek footballer
• 1982 – Pizon, American rapper/producer
• 1982 – Matt Ware, American football player
• 1983 – Chris Burke, Scottish footballer
• 1983 – Daniela Ruah, Portuguese actress
• 1983 – Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player
• 1983 – Aaron Rodgers, American football player
• 1984 – Péter Máté, Hungarian footballer
• 1985 – Dorell Wright, American basketball player
• 1986 – Claudiu Keserü, Romanian football player
• 1987 – Teairra Mari, American R&B singer
• 1988 – Alfred Enoch, British actor
• 1988 – Soniya Mehra, Indian actress
• 1989 – Cassie Steele, Canadian actress
• 1990 – Hikaru Yaotome, Japanese idol (Hey! Say! JUMP)
• 1992 – Brandon Knight, American basketball player
• 2007 – Al Jalila bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Deaths

• 1348 – Emperor Hanazono of Japan (b. 1297)
• 1381 – John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic
• 1463 – Archduke Albert VI of Austria (b. 1418)
• 1469 – Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1416)
• 1515 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (b. 1453)
• 1547 – Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conqueror (b. 1485)
• 1552 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Catholic missionary (b. 1506)
• 1615 – Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, French general
• 1665 – Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, French socialite (b. 1588)
• 1694 – Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (b. 1622)
• 1719 – Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (b. 1634)
• 1726 – Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (b. 1665)
• 1747 – Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (b. 1695)
• 1748 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (b. 1662)
• 1774 – Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer and organist (b. 1720)
• 1814 – Marquis de Sade, French writer (b. 1740)
• 1844 – Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (b. 1768)
• 1849 – Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
• 1859 – John Brown, American abolitionist (b. 1800)
• 1860 – Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager (b. 1796)
• 1888 – Namık Kemal, Turkish poet (b. 1840)
• 1892 – Jay Gould, American entrepreneur (b. 1836)
• 1899 – Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general (b. 1875)
• 1918 – Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist (b. 1868)
• 1924 – Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian philologist (b. 1879)
• 1931 – Vincent d'Indy, French composer (b. 1851)
• 1936 – John Ringling, American circus owner (b. 1866)
• 1943 – Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian author and journalist (b. 1902)
• 1944 – Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist (b. 1874)
• 1944 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian writer (b. 1876)
• 1944 – Eiji Sawamura, Japanese baseball player (b. 1917)
• 1950 – Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (b. 1917)
• 1953 – Reginald Baker, Australian athlete and actor (b. 1884)
• 1957 – Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (b. 1902)
• 1963 – Sabu Dastagir, Indian-born American actor (b. 1924)
• 1963 – Thomas J. Hicks, British-born runner (b. 1875)
• 1966 – Giles Cooper, Anglo-Irish playwright (b. 1918)
• 1967 – Billy Chapman, English footballer (b. 1902)
• 1968 – Adamson-Eric (Eric Adamson), Estonian painter (b. 1902)
• 1969 – Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, Russian politician (b. 1881)
• 1974 – Max Weber, Swiss politician (b. 1897)
• 1976 – Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
• 1980 – Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Pakistani politician (b. 1905)
• 1980 – Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French writer (b. 1914)
• 1982 – Marty Feldman, British comedian, writer and actor (b. 1933)
• 1983 – Fifi d'Orsay, Canadian actress (b. 1904)
• 1985 – Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (b. 1914)
• 1985 – Philip Larkin, English writer and jazz critic (b. 1922)
• 1985 – Petros the Pelican, the official mascot of the Greek island of Mykonos
• 1986 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor and band leader (b. 1917)
• 1986 – John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (b. 1912)
• 1987 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
• 1987 – Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (b. 1914)
• 1988 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (b. 1922)
• 1990 – Aaron Copland, American composer (b. 1900)
• 1990 – Robert Cummings, American film and television actor (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug dealer (b. 1949)
• 1995 – Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (b. 1913)
• 1995 – Roxie Roker, American actress (b. 1929)
• 1997 – Shirley Crabtree, British professional wrestler (b. 1930)
• 1997 – Michael Hedges, American guitarist (b. 1953)
• 2002 – Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (b. 1926)
• 2002 – Arno Peters, German historian (b. 1916)
• 2003 – Alan Davidson, British author (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Alicia Markova, British ballerina (b. 1910)
• 2005 – Kenneth Lee Boyd, American convicted murderer (b. 1948)
• 2005 – Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian-born Vietnamese drug smuggler (b. 1980)
• 2005 – Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (b. 1919)
• 2005 – VADM William P. Lawrence, United States Navy (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (Shocking Blue) (b. 1947)
• 2007 – Jennifer Alexander, Canadian ballet dancer (b. 1972)
• 2008 – Edward Samuel Rogers, Canadian entrepreneur (b. 1933)
• 2008 – Kathleen Baskin-Ball, American religious leader (b. 1958)
• 2008 – Odetta, American singer (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Maggie Jones, English actress (b. 1934)
• 2009 – Eric Woolfson, Scottish singer and producer (The Alan Parsons Project) (b. 1945)
• 2009 – Foge Fazio, American college football coach (b. 1938)

Holidays and observances

• R.C. Saints – St Bibiana, Saint Chromatius
• Feast Day – Channing Moore Williams
• Laos – National Day
• United Arab Emirates – National Day (independence from Britain, 1971)
• International Day for the Abolition of Slavery – United Nations

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. ~ Helen Keller

• selected by Kalki

2005

I do not believe that friendship today can flower out — can come out — of political life. I do believe that if there is something like a political life-to-be — to remain for us, in this world of technology — then it begins with friendship. ~ Ivan Illich (died 2 December 2002)

• proposed by Kalki

2006

The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring. ~ Ivan Illich (date of death)

• proposed by Kalki

2007

Ultimately, leadership requires action: daring to take steps that are necessary but unpopular, challenging the status quo in order to reach a brighter future. And to push for peace is ultimately personal sacrifice, for leadership is not easy. It is born of a passion, and it is a commitment. Leadership is a commitment to an idea, to a dream, and to a vision of what can be. And my dream is for my land and my people to cease fighting and allow our children to reach their full potential regardless of sex, status, or belief. ~ Benazir Bhutto (became first female Prime Minister of Pakistan on 2 December 1988)

• proposed by Kalki

2008

Learned and leisured hospitality is the only antidote to the stance of deadly cleverness that is acquired in the professional pursuit of objectively secured knowledge. I remain certain that the quest for truth cannot thrive outside the nourishment of mutual trust flowering into a commitment to friendship. ~ Ivan Illich (date of death)

• proposed by Kalki

2009

I do think that if I had to choose one word to which hope can be tied it is hospitality. A practice of hospitality— recovering threshold, table, patience, listening, and from there generating seedbeds for virtue and friendship on the one hand — on the other hand radiating out for possible community, for rebirth of community. ~ Ivan Illich

• proposed by Kalki

2010 

Rank or add further suggestions…

Ranking system:

4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.

3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.

2 : Good - some desire to see it used.

1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.

0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

Suggestions

At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined, for the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second. ~ Marquis de Sade (date of death)

• 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 18:40, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 15:25, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

There is no point in hiding that before the war we mostly learned to attack, and did not pay enough attention to such an important manoeuvre as retreat. Now we have paid for this. It turned out that the commanders and the staff were not sufficiently prepared to prepare and execute the retreat manoeuvre. Now, in the second week of war, we had in fact to learn from the beginning the most difficult art - the art of the execution of retreat. ~ Hovhannes Bagramyan (born December 2)

• 3 because the art of retreat is important, whether it be for a military tactician or merely someone who needs to escape from a dangerous situation. Zarbon 06:39, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
  • SOURCE: The System of the International Organizations of the Communist Countries - Page 36 by Richard Szawlowski - Law - 1976
• 1 Kalki 00:18, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Antiquary 20:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
• 1 InvisibleSun 21:41, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Eastern Prussia (Germany) was a battlefield during World War I years. And right from here, on September 1, 1939, began the spark of fire for the coming of the second world war. And in 1941, Eastern Prussia invaded Soviet soil with a powerful military onslaught, unleashing a grip of heavy burden, tragedy, and torture into the Soviet pre-Baltic and also the inhabitants of Leningrad, Pskov, and the Novgorod regions. Right from the very first days of the second world war, Eastern Prussia was completely transformed into a diabolic system of concentration camp strongholds for captured military people, and became a cruel prison for the young and females, who were brought from many European countries. In the first place, from the Soviet Union. And, aha! Now, after the winter of 1945, Soviet forces captured the descendants of these royal hounds in their very own doghouse! ~ Hovhannes Bagramyan (born December 2)

• 4 because it states what happened, when Bagramyan's forces entered the Berlin bunker, because I like the ending of this description heavily. Especially the bit "And aha! Now, after the winter of 1945, Soviet forces captured the descendants of these royal hounds in their very own doghouse!" The comparison of the high ranking Germans to royal hounds is very powerful and just as the German shepherd was slain, so was its master. And in its very own doghouse no less. A magnificent and enthralling quote, but it might be best if trimmed, a matter of personal preference to just "And aha! Now, after the winter of 1945, Soviet forces captured the descendants of these royal hounds in their very own doghouse!" but still great either way. Zarbon 06:39, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
  • SOURCE: I. C. Bagramyan: A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal - Yerevan - 1987
• 1 Kalki 00:18, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Antiquary 20:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
• 1 InvisibleSun 21:41, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

No matter what you do, at the end of the day you can't please everybody. ~ Britney Spears

• 2 Zarbon 03:49, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:18, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
• 0 Ningauble 17:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC) (unremarkably unoriginal)
• 1 Antiquary 20:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
• 1 InvisibleSun 21:41, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me. ~ Maria Callas

• 2 Kalki 00:45, 29 November 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3
• 1 Zarbon 22:03, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Antiquary 20:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 21:41, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must. ~ Maria Callas

• 2 Kalki 00:45, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 22:03, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Antiquary 20:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
• 1 InvisibleSun 21:41, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on December 2.

From Wikia Gaming, your source for walkthroughs, games, guides, and more!

Game releases

• 2006
  • Altered Beast (Megadrive) for the Wii Virtual Console in Japan
  • Street Fighter II for the Wii Virtual Console in Japan
  • Super Mario Bros. for the Wii Virtual Console in Japan

• 2005
  • Condemned for the Xbox 360 in Europe
  • FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup for the Xbox 360 in Europe
  • Need for Speed: Most Wanted for the Xbox 360 in Europe
  • Project Gotham Racing 3 for the Xbox 360 in Europe

• 2004
  • Polarium for the Nintendo DS in Japan
  • Super Mario 64 DS for the Nintendo DS in Japan

• 2003
  • Beyond Good & Evil for the Xbox in North America
  • Deus Ex: Invisible War in North America

• 2001
  • Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance for the Playstation 2 in North America
  • Pikmin for the GameCube in North America

Events

• 2005
  • Xbox 360 is released in Europe

• 2004
  • Nintendo DS is released in Japan

From Familypedia

December 2 is the 336th day of the year (337th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 29 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens.
• 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.
• 1804 - At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
• 1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz - French troops under Napoleon defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
• 1823 - Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.
• 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 - Newly-elected French President Charles Louis Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
• 1852 - Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French.
• 1859 - Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry.
• 1867 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
• 1899 - Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
• 1908 - Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two
• 1920 - Following more than a month of Turkish-Armenian War, the Turkish dictated peace treaty is concluded -Treaty of Alexandropol
• 1927 - Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
• 1930 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
• 1939 - New York City's La Guardia Airport opens.
• 1942 - Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
• 1943 - A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks an American ship with a mustard gas stockpile. Numerous fatalities (though the exact death toll is unresolved as the bombing raid itself caused hundreds of deaths too).
• 1946 - British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly.
• 1947 - Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
• 1954 - Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
• 1954 - The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic of China, is signed in Washington.
• 1956 - The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
• 1956 - Meher Baba and followers suffer auto accident in Satara,India.
• 1961 - In a nationally-broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
• 1962 - Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to not make an optimistic public comment on the war's progress.
• 1970 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
• 1971 - Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
• 1972 - Gough Whitlam becomes the first Australian Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia for 23 years.
• 1975 - Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
• 1976 - Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
• 1980 - Four U.S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador.
• 1988 - Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
• 1990 - A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German elections since 1932.
• 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 - The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.
• 2001 - Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• 2005 - Van Tuong Nguyen is executed in Singapore for drug trafficking.

Births

• 1578 - Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1640)
• 1694 - William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1771)
• 1703 - Ferdinand Konscak, Croatian explorer (d. 1759)
• 1710 - Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)
• 1738 - Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (d. 1775)
• 1754 - William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)
• 1760 - John Breckinridge, American politician (d. 1806)
• 1811 - Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885)
• 1817 - Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895)
• 1825 - Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (d. 1891)
• 1846 - Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (d. 1904)
• 1849 - Princess Marie of Hanover (d. 1906)
• 1859 - Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891)
• 1863 - Charles Ringling, American circus owner (d. 1926)
• 1885 - George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1950)
• 1886 - Harry Burleigh, American composer (d. 1949)
• 1891 - Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1969)
• 1892 - Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (d. 2002)
• 1894 - Warren William, American Broadway and film actor (d. 1948)
• 1895 - Harriet Cohen, British pianist (d. 1967)
• 1897 - Hovhannes Bagramyan, Marshall of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
• 1898 - Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918)
• 1899 - John Barbirolli, British conductor (d. 1970)
• 1899 - John Cobb, British racing driver (d. 1952)
• 1901 - Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-born footballer (d. 1986)
• 1902 - Howard Koch, American screenwriter (d. 1995)
• 1906 - Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born recording engineer (d. 1977)
• 1914 - Adolph Green, American composer (d. 2002)
• 1914 - Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1917 - Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (d. 1992)
• 1923 - Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)
• 1924 - Alexander M. Haig, American soldier and politician
• 1925 - Julie Harris, American actress
• 1930 - Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize
• 1931 - Edwin Meese, American politician
• 1931 - Nigel Calder, British science writer
• 1931 - Hatsumi Masaaki, Founder and head of the Bujinkan Dojo organization
• 1931 - Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (d. 1971)
• 1933 - Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)
• 1933 - K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist
• 1934 - Andre Rodgers, baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1935 - David Hackett Fischer, American historian
• 1939 - Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician
• 1939 - Harry Reid, American politician
• 1939 - Francis Fox, Canadian politician, member of the Senate
• 1943 - Wayne Allard, American politician
• 1944 - Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)
• 1944 - Botho Strauß, German author
• 1944 - Dionysis Savvopoulos, Greek musician and songwriter
• 1944 - Inger Davidson, Swedish politician
• 1945 - Penelope Spheeris, American film director
• 1946 - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (d. 1997)
• 1947 - Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer (Les Variations)
• 1947 - Ivan Atanassov Petrov, Bulgarian neurologist
• 1947 - Tommy Jenkins, English football player
• 1948 - T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer
• 1950 - Bob Kevoian, American radio personality
• 1951 - Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher
• 1952 - Carol Shea-Porter, American Congresswoman
• 1954 - Dan Butler, American actor
• 1954 - Stone Phillips, American television journalist
• 1957 - Dagfinn Høybråten, Norwegian politician
• 1958 - Uladzimir Parfianovich, Belarusian canoer
• 1958 - Eric L. Harry, American novelist
• 1958 - George Saunders, American writer
• 1960 - Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British Drummer (Hanoi Rocks)
• 1960 - Rick Savage, British bassist (Def Leppard)
• 1962 - Kardam, titular Bulgarian royal family
• 1963 - Ann Patchett, American novelist
• 1963 - Ron Sutter, National Hockey League player
• 1966 - Jinsei Shinzaki, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1968 - Lucy Liu, American actress
• 1968 - Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters)
• 1968 - Rena Sofer, American actress
• 1968 - Chris Wedge, American animator
• 1968 - Darryl Kile, baseball player (d. 2002)
• 1971 - Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor
• 1971 - Francesco Toldo, Italian Football Player (Inter Milan)
• 1972 - Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
• 1973 - Graham Kavanagh, Irish footballer
• 1973 - Monica Seles, Yugoslavian-born tennis player
• 1973 - Jan Ullrich, German cyclist
• 1976 - Eddy Garabito, professional baseball player
• 1977 - Siyabonga Nomvethe, South African footballer plays for Aalborg BK
• 1978 - Nelly Furtado, Canadian singer and songwriter
• 1978 - Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist (Muse)
• 1978 - David Rivas, Spanish Footballer plays for Real Betis
• 1978 - Jason Collins, American basketball player for New Jersey Nets
• 1978 - Jarron Collins, American basketball player for Utah Jazz
• 1979 - Yvonne Catterfeld, German singer and actress
• 1979 - Michael McIndoe, Scottish professional footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
• 1981 - Isabella Soprano, American pornographic actress
• 1981 - Danijel Pranjić, Croatian football player plays for SC Heerenveen
• 1981 - Britney Spears, American singer
• 1982 - Matt Ware, American football player
• 1982 - Pizon, American rapper/producer
• 1982 - Hristos Karipidis, Greek footballer
• 1983 - Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player
• 1983 - Chris Burke, Scottish footballer plays for Rangers F.C.
• 1983 - Aaron Rodgers, American football player for Green Bay Packers
• 1984 - Péter Máté, Hungarian footballer (Reading F.C.)
• 1985 - Dorell Wright, American basketball player
• 1986 - Claudiu Keserü, Romanian football player (FC Nantes Atlantique)
• 1987 - Teairra Mari, American R&B singer
• 1988 - Alfred Enoch, British Actor
• 1989 - Cassie Steele, Canadian actress

Deaths

• 1348 - Emperor Hanazono of Japan (b. 1297)
• 1381 - John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic
• 1463 - Archduke Albert VI of Austria (b. 1418)
• 1469 - Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1416)
• 1515 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (b. 1453)
• 1547 - Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conqueror (b. 1485)
• 1552 - Francis Xavier, Spanish Catholic missionary (b. 1506)
• 1615 - Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, French general
• 1665 - Catherine de Vivonne, French socialite (b. 1588)
• 1694 - Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (b. 1622)
• 1719 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (b. 1634)
• 1726 - Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (b. 1665)
• 1747 - Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (b. 1695)
• 1748 - Charles Seymour, English politician (b. 1662)
• 1774 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer and organist (b. 1720)
• 1814 - Marquis de Sade, French writer (b. 1740)
• 1844 - Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (b. 1768)
• 1849 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
• 1859 - John Brown, American abolitionist (hanged) (b. 1800)
• 1860 - Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager (b. 1796)
• 1892 - Jay Gould, American entrepreneur (b. 1836)
• 1918 - Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist (b. 1868)
• 1924 - Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian philologist (b. 1879)
• 1931 - Vincent d'Indy, French composer (b. 1851)
• 1936 - John Ringling, American circus owner (b. 1866)
• 1943 - Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian author and journalist (b. 1902)
• 1944 - Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist (b. 1874)
• 1944 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian writer (b. 1876)
• 1950 - Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (b. 1917)
• 1957 - Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (b. 1902)
• 1963 - Thomas J. Hicks, British-born runner (b. 1875)
• 1963 - Sabu Dastagir, Indian-born American actor (b. 1924)
• 1968 - Adamson-Eric (Eric Adamson), Estonian painter (b. 1902)
• 1969 - Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, Russian politician (b. 1881)
• 1974 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897)
• 1976 - Danny Murtaugh, baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
• 1980 - Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1905)
• 1980 - Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French writer (b. 1914)
• 1982 - Marty Feldman, British comedian, writer and actor (b. 1933)
• 1983 - Fifi d'Orsay, Canadian actress (b. 1904)
• 1985 - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (b. 1914)
• 1985 - Philip Larkin, English writer and jazz critic (b. 1922)
• 1986 - Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor, musician, band leader, and composer (b. 1917)
• 1987 - Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1987 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (b. 1914)
• 1988 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra)
• 1990 - Aaron Copland, American composer (b. 1900)
• 1990 - Robert Cummings, American film and television actor (b. 1908)
• 1993 - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug dealer (b. 1949)
• 1995 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (b. 1913)
• 1997 - Shirley Crabtree, British professional wrestler (b. 1930)
• 1997 - Michael Hedges, American guitarist known for originality (b. 1953)
• 2002 - Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (b. 1926)
• 2002 - Arno Peters, German historian (b. 1916)
• 2003 - Alan Davidson, British author (b. 1924)
• 2004 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921)
• 2004 - Alicia Markova, British ballerina (b. 1910)
• 2005 - Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (b. 1919)
• 2005 - Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian drug smuggler (hanged) (b. 1980)
• 2005 - Kenneth Lee Boyd, American convicted murderer (executed) (b. 1948)
• 2006 - Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (b. 1947)

Holidays and observances

• R.C. Saints - St Bibiana, Saint Chromatius
• Laos - National Day
• United Arab Emirates - National Day (independence from Britain, 1971)
• International Day for the Abolition of Slavery - United Nations

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada