Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 2
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James Monroe -
Enrico Fermi -
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Napoleon III -
The Battle of Austerlitz, 2nd December 1805 by François Gérard -
Emperor Franz Joseph -
Edith Roosevelt (née Carow), c. 1903 -
Benazir Bhutto
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| National Day in Laos (1975) | Neither of the two sources provided mentions National Day, or verifies the date |
| and the United Arab Emirates (1971) | Laos: multiple issues; UAE: refimprove section |
| 1409 – Leipzig University in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, one of the oldest universities in Europe, was established. | refimprove section, citation style |
| 1763 – The Touro Synagogue, the oldest surviving Jewish synagogue building in North America, was formally dedicated. | refimprove section |
| 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French forces led by Napoleon decisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army commanded by Tsar Alexander I at the Battle of Austerlitz (depicted). | Date not cited |
| 1848 – Franz Joseph became Emperor of Austria. | refimprove section |
| 1852 – Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte established the Second French Empire, declaring himself Emperor of the French as Napoleon III. | "Single source" orange banner |
| 1908 – Two-year-old Puyi became Emperor of China, the last one before the Republic of China was declared in 1912. | Unreferenced section, featured on February 12 |
| 1920 – The Treaty of Alexandropol, a peace treaty between the Democratic Republic of Armenia and the Grand National Assembly of Turkey ending the Turkish Invasion of Armenia, was signed before the declaration of the Republic of Turkey. | short |
| 1975 – The Pathet Lao overthrew the royalist government in Vientiane, forcing King Savang Vatthana to abdicate, and established the Lao People's Democratic Republic. | refimprove section |
| 1980 – Four American missionaries were murdered by a military death squad in El Salvador. | Quite a few citation needed tags |
| 1999 – The United Kingdom devolved political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive. | refimprove section |
| 2008 – Thai political crisis: The Constitutional Court of Thailand dissolved three political parties, including the governing People's Power Party, leading to the resignation of prime minister Somchai Wongsawat. | Crisis: unreferenced section; Wongsawat: refimprove |
| Vincent Bourne |d|1747| | Lede too short |
| Inori Minase |b|1995 | too many {cn} tags |
Eligible
- 1899 – Philippine–American War: A 60-man Filipino rearguard was defeated at the Battle of Tirad Pass, but delayed the American advance long enough to ensure President Emilio Aguinaldo's escape.
- 1942 – Manhattan Project scientists led by Enrico Fermi initiated the first self-sustaining chain reaction in the experimental nuclear reactor Chicago Pile-1.
- 1943 – World War II: The Luftwaffe conducted a surprise air raid on Allied ships in Bari, Italy, sinking twenty-eight vessels and releasing one ship's secret cargo of mustard gas.
- 1954 – The United States Senate voted of 67 to 22 to approve a resolution condemning Senator Joseph McCarthy who continued to serve in the Senate until his death two and a half years later.
- 1956 – Cuban Revolution: The yacht Granma, carrying Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement, reached the shores of Cuba.
- 1962 – Returning from a fact-finding mission, U.S. senator Mike Mansfield became the first American official to comment adversely on the progress of the Vietnam War.
- 1988 – Benazir Bhutto (pictured) took office as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state.
- 2001 – Less than two months after disclosing accounting violations, the Texas-based energy firm Enron filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, evaporating nearly $11 billion in shareholder wealth.
- 2016 – Thirty-six people died when a fire broke out at an illegally converted warehouse in Oakland, California, the deadliest U.S. building fire since 2003.
- Born/died: | William Shirley |b|1694| John Breckinridge |b|1760| António Luís de Seabra, 1st Viscount of Seabra |b|1798| Marquis de Sade |d|1814| William Burges |b|1827| Erima Northcroft |b|1884| Ivan Bagramyan |b|1897| John Barbirolli |b|1899| Ralph Richardson |b|1902| Wynton Kelly |b|1931| Francis Spellman |d|1967| Britney Spears |b|1981 |Chaudhry Muhammad Ali |d|1982 |Aaron Copland |d|1990 |Shyam Swarup Agarwal |d|2013
Notes
- Assassination of Benazir Bhutto appears on December 27, so her article should not appear in the same year
1928 Ford Model A
- 1823 – U.S. president James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine, a proclamation of opposition to European colonialism in the New World.
- 1927 – The Ford Motor Company introduced the second version of the Model A (pictured), its first new model in 18 years.
- 1950 – Korean War: UN forces began a retreat from North Korea following defeat at the Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River.
- 1989 – The Malayan Communist Party and the Malaysian government signed a peace accord to end a 21-year communist insurgency.
- 2015 – In San Bernardino, California, a married couple carried out a mass shooting at a Christmas party before fleeing and dying in a shootout with police.
- Irene Vanbrugh (b. 1872)
- Allen Wright (d. 1885)
- Austen Deans (b. 1915)
- Inori Minase (b. 1995)
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