2 December
Notable Births
Learner Tien
b. 2005
American professional tennis player (born 2005)
Ilia Malinin
b. 2004
American figure skater (born 2004)
Neil Erasmus
b. 2003
Australian rules football player
Annalise Basso
b. 1998
American actress (born 1998)
Anna Kalinskaya
b. 1998
Russian tennis player (born 1998)
Juice Wrld
b. 1998
American rapper (1998–2019)
De'Andre Hunter
b. 1997
American basketball player (born 1997)
Uladzislau Hancharou
b. 1995
Belarusian trampoline gymnast
Zach Cunningham
b. 1994
American football player (born 1994)
Aaron Jones (running back)
b. 1994
American football player (born 1994)
Elias Lindholm
b. 1994
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1994)
Tomokaze Sōdai
b. 1994
Japanese professional sumo wrestler
Kostas Stafylidis
b. 1993
Greek footballer
Sim Bhullar
b. 1992
Canadian basketball player (born 1992)
Gary Sánchez
b. 1992
Dominican baseball player (born 1992)
Chloé Dufour-Lapointe
b. 1991
Canadian freestyle skier
Brandon Knight (basketball)
b. 1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
Charlie Puth
b. 1991
American singer-songwriter (born 1991)
Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu
b. 1990
Ghanaian footballer (born 1990)
Gastón Ramírez
b. 1990
Uruguayan footballer (born 1990)
Notable Deaths
Helmut Duckadam
d. 2024
Romanian footballer (1959–2024)
Neale Fraser
d. 2024
Australian tennis player (1933–2024)
Paul Maslansky
d. 2024
American film producer and writer (1933–2024)
Eminem
d. 2024
American rapper (born 1972)
Pat Patterson
d. 2020
Canadian-American professional wrestler (1941–2020)
Sandy Berger
d. 2015
American political advisor (1945–2015)
George T. Sakato
d. 2015
A. R. Antulay
d. 2014
Indian politician
Jean Béliveau
d. 2014
Canadian ice hockey player (1931–2014)
Bobby Keys
d. 2014
American saxophonist (1943–2014)
Don Laws
d. 2014
American figure skater and coach
William Allain
d. 2013
American politician (1928–2013)
Marcelo Déda
d. 2013
Brazilian politician (1960–2013)
Junior Murvin
d. 2013
Jamaican reggae musician
Tom Hendry
d. 2012
Co-founder of the Manitoba Theatre Centre
Ehsan Naraghi
d. 2012
Eric Woolfson
d. 2009
Scottish musician and songwriter (1945–2009)
Odetta
d. 2008
American singer (1930–2008)
Henry Molaison
d. 2008
American memory disorder patient
Edward S. Rogers Jr.
d. 2008
Canadian businessman and philanthropist (1933-2008)
On This Day in History
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2020
Cannabis is removed from the list of most dangerous drugs of the international drug control treaty by the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
Cannabis (drug)
2016
Thirty-six people die in a fire at a converted Oakland, California, warehouse serving as an artist collective.
Ghost Ship warehouse fire
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.
2015 San Bernardino attack
2001
Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Enron
1999
The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive following the Good Friday Agreement.
Northern Ireland
1993
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed by police in Medellín.
Colombia
1993
Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
Space Shuttle program
1992
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-53 for the United States Department of Defense.
Space Shuttle Discovery
1991
Canada and Poland become the first nations to recognize the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union.
Ukraine
1990
Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-35, carrying the ASTRO-1 spacelab observatory.
Space Shuttle Columbia
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.
Hat Yai Peace Agreement
1988
Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state.
Benazir Bhutto
1988
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-27, a classified mission for the United States Department of Defense.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
1982
At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
University of Utah
1980
Salvadoran Civil War: Four American missionaries are raped and murdered by a death squad.
Salvadoran Civil War
1977
A Tupolev Tu-154 crashes near Benghazi, Libya, killing 59.
Tupolev Tu-154
1976
Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
Fidel Castro
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.
Laotian Civil War
1972
Gough Whitlam is elected the 21st Prime Minister of Australia in the 1972 Australian federal election, defeating William McMahon and leading the Australian Labor Party back into office after 23 years in Opposition.
Gough Whitlam
1971
Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm al-Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
Emirate of Abu Dhabi