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Upcoming International days

• 2 December International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
• 3 December International Day of Persons with Disabilities
• 4 December International Day of Banks
• 5 December International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development
• 5 December World Soil Day
• 7 December International Civil Aviation Day

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• 2 December Laos
• 2 December United Arab Emirates
• 3 December Saba (Kingdom of the Netherlands)
• 5 December Thailand
• 6 December Finland

Happened this day (02 December) * Source Wikipedia

- Pre-1600
- 1244 Pope Innocent IV arrives at Lyon for the First Council of Lyon.
- 1409 The University of Leipzig opens.
- 1601–1900
- 1697 St Paul's Cathedral, rebuilt to the design of Sir Christopher Wren following the Great Fire of London, is consecrated.
- 1763 Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what will become the United States.
- 1766 Swedish parliament approves the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implements it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
- 1804 At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French.
- 1805 War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Austerlitz: French troops under Napoleon decisively defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
- 1823 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.
- 1845 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.
- 1848 Franz Joseph I becomes Emperor of Austria.
- 1851 French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
- 1852 Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French as Napoleon III.
- 1859 Origins of the American Civil War: Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia).
- 1865 Alabama ratifies the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed by North Carolina, then Georgia; U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.
- 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, known as the "Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
- 1901–present
- 1908 Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.
- 1917 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.
- 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: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a $150 ;million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
- 1939 New York City's LaGuardia Airport opens.
- 1942 World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
- 1943 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 mustard gas.
- 1947 Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Arabs riot in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
- 1949 Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others is adopted.
- 1950 Korean War: The Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River ends with a decisive Chinese victory and UN forces are completely expelled from North Korea.
- 1954 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".
- 1954 The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.
- 1956 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.
- 1957 United Nations Security Council Resolution 126 relating to the Kashmir conflict is adopted.
- 1961 In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba will adopt Communism.
- 1962 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.
- 1968 Wien Consolidated Airlines Flight 55 crashes into Pedro Bay, Alaska, killing all 39 people on board.
- 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.
- 1975 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.
- 1976 Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
- 1977 A Tupolev Tu-154 crashes near Benghazi, Libya, killing 59.
- 1980 Salvadoran Civil War: Four American missionaries are raped and murdered by a death squad.
- 1982 At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
- 1988 Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state.
- 1988 Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-27, a classified mission for the United States Department of Defense.
- 1989 The Peace Agreement of Hat Yai is signed and ratified by the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) and the governments of Malaysia and Thailand, ending the over two-decade-long communist insurgency in Malaysia.
- 1990 Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-35, carrying the ASTRO-1 spacelab observatory.
- 1991 Canada and Poland become the first nations to recognize the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union.
- 1992 Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-53 for the United States Department of Defense.
- 1993 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed by police 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 following the Good Friday Agreement.
- 2001 Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- 2015 San Bernardino attack: Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik kill 14 people and wound 22 at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California.
- 2016 Thirty-six people die in a fire at a converted Oakland, California, warehouse serving as an artist collective.
- 2020 Cannabis is removed from the list of most dangerous drugs of the international drug control treaty by the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.