December 2 is the 336th day of the year (337th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 29.
Railways
- 2 December 1861 The concession granted for the Rumelian railway was terminated because the provisions of the contract were not fulfilled.
Events
- 1409 – The University of Leipzig was founded.
- 1804 - Napoleon BonaparteHe was crowned Emperor of France at a ceremony attended by the Pope at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
- 1848 - Franz Joseph becomes Emperor of Austria.
- 1852 – III. Napoleon was proclaimed Emperor in France.
- 1873 – Considered as Turkey's first stock exchange Dersaadet Bond Exchange opened.
- 1901 - The razor was patented by King Camp Gillette.
- 1908 - Child Emperor Puyi ascended the throne at the age of 2 in China.
- 1909 - Leo Hendrik Baekeland patents the first artificial plastic "bakelite".
- 1909 – French Baron Cathers made the first airplane show in the Ottoman Empire. The plane landed from Şişli Hürriyet Ebediye Hill to the Bulgarian Hospital.
- 1914 – Austria occupied Belgrade.
- 1918 – Armenia declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1918 – Thrace-Pashaeli Defense of Rights Society was founded by Mehmed Talat Pasha in Edirne. The society, which is pro-Turkish National Movement, was supported by Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa, of which Talat Pasha was a member.
- 1920 – Gyumri Treaty signed between Turkey and Armenia. Kars was taken from Armenia.
- 1928 – “Prepared by Celal Sahir Erozan”Spelling Dictionary” has been published.
- 1942 - Chicago scientists perform the first controlled atomic chain reaction.
- 1943 – Taxpayers who cannot pay the Wealth Tax, 87 percent of which are non-Muslim minorities,physical work paymentsHe was sent to labor camps for ”. It was decided to release those in the camps.
- 1949 – A theater company from Greece performed in Istanbul for Cevat Fehmi Başkut. recess staged his play.
- 1956 - Fidel Castro landed in Cuba on the Granma yacht.
- 1956 – Sarıyar Dam, located 120 km northeast of Ankara, was opened.
- 1961 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares himself a Marxist-Leninist who will lead Cuba to communism.
- 1963 – Karadeniz Technical University was opened in Trabzon.
- 1963 – Head of Turkey's first coalition government, İsmet İnönü, resigned from his position as Prime Minister, which he assumed for the first time in 24 years.
- 1965 – Air pollution in Ankara is at dangerous levels: Scientific circles declared that the cancer risk of someone who has lived in Ankara for 20 years is very high.
- 1971 – The United Arab Emirates gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1974 – After the Keban and Gökçekaya Hydroelectric Power Plants and the Seyitömer Thermal Power Plant's three units malfunctioned at the same time, a 1,5-hour electricity restriction was started every day in Turkey.
- 1981 – 450 faculty members from Istanbul Technical University made a statement against the Higher Education Law.
- 1981 – Hülya Koçyiğit at the 3 Continents Film Festival in France, “Frogsfor her role in the movie "best actress“He received the award.
- 1982 – Dr. The first artificial heart developed by Robert K. Jarvik was implanted in a patient named Barney Clark.
- 1988 - Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
- 1993 – Colombian drug dealer Pablo Escobar was killed by security forces in Medellín.
- 2002 – Supreme Election Board (YSK) canceled the parliamentary election held in Siirt on 3 November 2002. Concluding that the shortcomings in the election procedures were effective in the election results, YSK unanimously decided to renew the election in Siirt.
- 2003 – The 11th Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals said to Necmettin Erbakan, Chairman of the Welfare Party, who was closed in the lost trillion case, “forgery of private documentHe unanimously approved the prison sentence of 2 years and 4 months given for the crime of ”.
- 2015 – Russia announced that the oil produced as a result of the oil production of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was purchased by Turkey. The statement also stated that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his family are also involved in this trade.
Births
- 1612 – Janusz Radziwiłł, Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1655)
- 1710 – Carlo Antonio Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)
- 1816 – Amedeo Preziosi, Maltese painter (d. 1882)
- 1842 – Charles William Alcock, English athlete, journalist, author, and sports administrator (d. 1907)
- 1846 René Waldeck-Rousseau, French politician (d. 1904)
- 1859 – Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891)
- 1876 – Yusuf Akçura, Turkish writer and politician (d. 1935)
- 1884 – Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, Turkish writer, politician and diplomat (d. 1958)
- 1885 – George Minot, American medical researcher and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1950)
- 1891 – Otto Dix, German painter and engraver (d. 1969)
- 1923 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)
- 1944 – Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (d. 2006)
- 1945 – Zihni Göktay, Turkish actor and voice actor
- 1946 – Ahmet Telli, Turkish teacher and writer
- 1946 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer and businessman (d. 1997)
- 1954 – Ahmet Uluçay, Turkish writer and director (d. 2009)
- 1965 – Ioan Drăgan, Romanian football player (d. 2012)
- 1968 – Lucy Liu, American actress
- 1971 - Francesco Toldo, Italian football player
- 1972 – Gökçe Özyol, Turkish actress
- 1974 – Sermiyan Midyat, Turkish actor, director and screenwriter
- 1976 – Erik Everhard, Canadian actor and director
- 1978 - Nelly Furtado, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1980 – Benjamin Mako Hill, American computer scientist and author
- 1981 – Britney Spears, American singer, dancer, and actress
- 1983 - Ana Lucia Dominguez, Colombian actress
- 1984 – Natalya Mammadova, Azerbaijani volleyball player
- 1986 - Adam le Fondre, English football player
- 1991 – Charlie Puth, American singer
- 1998 – Juice Wrld, American rapper (d. 2019)
Deaths
- 1547 – Hernán Cortés, Spanish navigator and explorer (b. 1485)
- 1594 – Gerardus Mercator, Belgian cartographer and mathematician (b. 1512)
- 1814 – Marquis de Sade, French novelist (b. 1740)
- 1859 – John Brown, American abolitionist rebel (b. 1800)
- 1881 – Jenny von Westphalen, wife of Karl Marx (b. 1814)
- 1888 – Namık Kemal, Turkish poet, politician and intellectual (b. 1840)
- 1918 – Edmond Rostand, French playwright (b. 1868)
- 1923 – Tomás Bretón, Spanish composer, violinist, and piano virtuoso (b. 1850)
- 1926 – Gérard Cooreman, Belgian politician (b. 1852)
- 1941 – Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces, politician, painter and poet (b. 1886)
- 1969 – Kliment Voroshilov, Soviet soldier and politician (b. 1881)
- 1980 – Roza Eskenazi, Turkish-Greek singer (b. 1890s)
- 1980 – Romain Gary, French writer and politician (b. 1914)
- 1982 – Marty Feldman, English comedian, actor, and writer (b. 1933)
- 1985 – Philip Larkin, English poet and author (b. 1922)
- 1990 – Robert Cummings, American actor (b. 1908)
- 1990 – Aaron Copland, American classical pioneer and composer (b. 1900)
- 1993 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (b. 1949)
- 1994 – Orhan Şaik Gökyay, Turkish literary history and language researcher and poet (b. 1902)
- 1995 – Kemal Sülker, Turkish trade unionist, journalist and investigative writer (b. 1919)
- 2002 – Mehmet Emin Toprak, Turkish actor (b. 1974)
- 2009 – Eric Woolfson, Scottish musician, songwriter, producer and pianist (b. 1945)
- 2013 – Pedro Rocha, Uruguayan former professional football player and manager (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Christopher Evan “Chris” Welch, American actor (b. 1965)
- 2015 – Luz Marina Zuluaga, Colombian model (b. 1938)
- 2017 – Necdet Levent, Turkish composer (b. 1923)
- 2017 – Mekkavi Said, Egyptian female short story writer and novelist (b. 1956)
- 2019 – Francesco Janich, Italian national football player (b. 1937)
- 2019 – Johann Baptist Metz, German Catholic theologian (b. 1928)
- 2020 – Mohamed Abarhoun, Moroccan football player (b. 1989)
- 2020 – Zaferullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani politician and sports administrator (b. 1944)
- 2020 – Pierre Clermont aka Pat Patterson, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1941)
- 2020 – Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, centre-right politician (1974-1981) in France, third president of the Fifth Republic (b. 1926)
- 2020 – Pamela Tiffin Wonso, American actress and model (b. 1942)
Holidays and special occasions
- World Slavery Abolition Day
- Storm: Pleiades Turning Storm
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