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Events on the 2nd of December in history

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02 Dec 1409 The University of Leipzig opens.
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02 Dec 1620 English language newspaper "Namloos" begins publishing in Amsterdam
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02 Dec 1682 English Earl of Shaftesbury flight to Amsterdam
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02 Dec 1697 St Paul's Cathedral is consecrated in London.
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02 Dec 1755 The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.
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02 Dec 1763 Touro shul of Newport RI dedicated (oldest existing US synagogue)
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02 Dec 1763 Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what will become the United States.
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02 Dec 1775 The USS Alfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.
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02 Dec 1790 Austrian army occupies Brussels
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02 Dec 1802 English sell Suriname to Dutch
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02 Dec 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte crowned Emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII
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02 Dec 1804 At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
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02 Dec 1805 Napoleon defeats Russians and Austrians at Austerlitz
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02 Dec 1805 War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Austerlitz – French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte decisively defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
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02 Dec 1812 James Madison re-elected President of US, E Gerry vice-pres
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02 Dec 1813 Prince Willem Frederik accepts constitutional monarchy
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02 Dec 1816 1st savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)
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02 Dec 1822 In San Salvador, a Congress proposes incorporation into US
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02 Dec 1823 President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine"
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02 Dec 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.
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02 Dec 1840 Opera "Die Favoritin" is produced (Paris)
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02 Dec 1840 William H Harrison elected President of US
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02 Dec 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.
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02 Dec 1848 Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary
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02 Dec 1848 Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.
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02 Dec 1851 French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
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02 Dec 1852 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes Emperor
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02 Dec 1852 Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French as Napoleon III.
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02 Dec 1859 Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
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02 Dec 1864 Skirmish at Rocky Creek Church, Georgia
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02 Dec 1867 At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
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02 Dec 1868 1st British government of Disraeli resigns
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02 Dec 1882 Amsterdam Artis Zoo opens aquarium
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02 Dec 1885 Opera "Regina di Saba, " premieres in Vienna
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02 Dec 1891 52nd Congress (1891-93) convenes
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02 Dec 1895 54th Congress (1895-97) convenes
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02 Dec 1899 US and Germany agree to divide Samoa between them
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02 Dec 1899 Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
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02 Dec 1900 South African President Paul Kruger arrives in Germany
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02 Dec 1901 Gillette patents 1st disposable razor
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02 Dec 1901 King Camp Gillette begins selling safety razor blades
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02 Dec 1902 Soccer team Go Ahead forms in Deventer
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02 Dec 1907 Tommy Burns KOs Gunner Moir in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
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02 Dec 1908 Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.
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02 Dec 1913 Archdiocese of Managua created
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02 Dec 1914 Austria army occupies Belgrade Serbia
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02 Dec 1916 Baseballers who are injured now get full pay for duration of contract
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02 Dec 1917 Han Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea
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02 Dec 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.
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02 Dec 1920 Following more than a month of Turkish–Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.
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02 Dec 1924 British-German trade agreement signed
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02 Dec 1927 1st Model A Fords sold, for $385
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02 Dec 1927 Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
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02 Dec 1928 Cardinals 1B Jim Bottomley is voted NL MVP
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02 Dec 1929 1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien
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02 Dec 1930 Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
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02 Dec 1932 "Adv of Charlie Chan" 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network
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02 Dec 1933 1st transatlantic telephone wedding (Bertil Clason-Sigrid Carlson)
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02 Dec 1934 5.08-m (200") Mt Palomar Observatory mirror is cast
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02 Dec 1939 British Imperial Airways and British Airways merge to form BOAC
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02 Dec 1939 New York City's LaGuardia Airport opens.
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02 Dec 1941 Largest roller skating rink (outside of NYC) opens in Peekskill, New York
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02 Dec 1941 Naval Intelligence ceases bugging Japanese consul
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02 Dec 1941 New York Giants name Mel Ott as player-manager, replacing Bill Terry
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02 Dec 1941 Yamamoto sends his fleet to Pearl Harbor
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02 Dec 1942 1st controlled nuclear chain reaction (Enrico Fermi - University of Chicago)
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02 Dec 1942 World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
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02 Dec 1943 1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp
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02 Dec 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 World War I-era mustard gas.
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02 Dec 1944 10th Heisman Trophy Award: Les Horvath, Ohio State (QB)
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02 Dec 1944 General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow
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02 Dec 1944 German troops seize Betuwse dikes
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02 Dec 1944 US 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar
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02 Dec 1947 13th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lujack, Notre Dame (QB)
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02 Dec 1947 Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
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02 Dec 1948 Stan Musial is picked NL MVP
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02 Dec 1951 "Borscht Capades" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 90 performances
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02 Dec 1951 Philadelphia sets NFL record of 25 1st-downs rushing
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02 Dec 1952 18th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Vessels, Oklahoma (HB)
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02 Dec 1952 1st human birth televised to public (KOA-TV Denver, Colo)
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02 Dec 1954 "Hit the Trail" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 4 performances
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02 Dec 1954 Frank Selvy of Milwaukee sets then NBA record of 24 of 26 free throws
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02 Dec 1954 US Senate censures Joe McCarthy (Sen-R-Wisc) for "conduct that tends to bring Senate into dishonor & disrepute"
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02 Dec 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".
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02 Dec 1954 The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.
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02 Dec 1956 Fidel Castro lands with "Granma" on coast of Cuba
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02 Dec 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.
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02 Dec 1957 1st US large scale nuclear power plant opens (Shippingport Penn)
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02 Dec 1958 24th Heisman Trophy Award: Pete Dawkins, Army (HB)
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02 Dec 1958 Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg
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02 Dec 1958 KNOP TV channel 2 in North Platte, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting
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02 Dec 1959 Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus
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02 Dec 1961 Wind Bell, journal of SF Zen Center, begins publishing
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02 Dec 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.
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02 Dec 1962 50th CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg beats Hamilton, 28-27 at Toronto [OT]
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02 Dec 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.
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02 Dec 1963 1st Dutch rocket launched / reaches height of 10 km
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02 Dec 1966 Love, Moby Grape and Lee Michaels perform at Fillmore East
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02 Dec 1968 President Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor
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02 Dec 1969 "Buck White" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 7 performances
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02 Dec 1969 Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to NYC)
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02 Dec 1970 Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir: William Ruckelshaus)
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02 Dec 1970 Tippetts Opera "Knot Garden, " premieres in London
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02 Dec 1970 The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
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02 Dec 1971 Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
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02 Dec 1971 United Arab Emirates, (Trucial States) declares independence from the UK
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02 Dec 1971 Zayid bin Sultan Al Nuhayyan of Abu Dhabi becomes President of UAE
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02 Dec 1971 Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm al-Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
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02 Dec 1972 "December Giant" largest sinkhole in US collapses (Alabama)
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02 Dec 1972 "Via Galactica" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 7 performances
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02 Dec 1972 60th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 13-10
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02 Dec 1972 In 1 of their worst trades Yanks get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen
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02 Dec 1973 62nd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland (5-0)
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02 Dec 1973 Capital Centre (USAir Arena) in Washington DC opens
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02 Dec 1973 US Air Arena opens in Landover Maryland, Bullets beat Seattle, 98-96
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02 Dec 1974 Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs
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02 Dec 1974 Giant Baba beats Jack Brisco in Kagoshimi, to become NWA champ
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02 Dec 1974 Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days
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02 Dec 1975 7 South Moluccans hijack train at Wijster Drente, 3 killed
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02 Dec 1975 Laos King Sisavang Vatthana resigns, Republic forms
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02 Dec 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.
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02 Dec 1976 Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
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02 Dec 1978 Chanting "Allah is great, " anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran
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02 Dec 1979 Crowds attack US embassy at Tripoli Libya
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02 Dec 1979 Foots Walker becomes 1st Cleveland Cavalier to score a triple-double
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02 Dec 1980 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
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02 Dec 1980 Salvadoran Civil War: Four U.S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a military death squad.
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02 Dec 1981 Fernando Valenzuela (Dodgers) wins NL Rookie of the Year
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02 Dec 1981 Moscone Convention Center, SF opens at 11:30 AM
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02 Dec 1981 Spanish government requests membership in NATO
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02 Dec 1982 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (University of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart
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02 Dec 1982 At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
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02 Dec 1984 4th meeting of Giants-Jets, Giants even series at 2 with 20-10 win
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02 Dec 1984 Bob Holland takes 9-83 for NSW against South Australia, SCG
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02 Dec 1985 "Mystery of Edwin Drood" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 608 performances
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02 Dec 1986 Dow-Jones index hits record 1955.57
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02 Dec 1987 Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor
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02 Dec 1988 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel
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02 Dec 1988 STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)
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02 Dec 1988 UN votes 151-2 (Isr & US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Britain abstains
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02 Dec 1988 Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
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02 Dec 1989 55th Heisman Trophy Award: Andre Ware, Houston (QB)
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02 Dec 1989 KHJ-TV in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KCAL-TV
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02 Dec 1989 Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as President of India
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02 Dec 1990 1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany
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02 Dec 1990 1st time 12 people in space
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02 Dec 1990 79th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in St. Petersburg (3-2)
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02 Dec 1990 Beth Daniel / Davis Love wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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02 Dec 1990 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit
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02 Dec 1991 Bobby Bonilla signs record $29 million-5 year pact with New York Mets
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02 Dec 1991 Muslim Shites release American held in Lebanon hostage Joseph Cicippio
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02 Dec 1991 Canada and Poland become the first nations on earth to recognize the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union.
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02 Dec 1992 WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in New York City
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02 Dec 1993 A Websters musical "Sunset Promenade" premieres in LA
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02 Dec 1993 Dow-Jones hits record 3702.11
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02 Dec 1993 Houston Rockets tie NBA record of 15-0 start
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02 Dec 1993 Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), launches
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02 Dec 1993 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.
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02 Dec 1993 Space Shuttle program: STS-61 – NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
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02 Dec 1994 "Cobb" premieres
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02 Dec 1994 Achille Lauro (Willem Ruys) sinks off the coast of Somalia
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02 Dec 1994 Andrew Lloyd Webber admitted to the hospital for ulcer treatment
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02 Dec 1994 Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring
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02 Dec 1995 17th ACE Cable Awards
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02 Dec 1997 MCI Center opens in Washington DC, Wizards vs. SuperSonics
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02 Dec 1999 Glenbrook rail accident: Seven passengers are killed when two trains collide near Sydney, New South Wales.
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02 Dec 1999 The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.
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02 Dec 2001 Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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