December 2 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 International Day for the Elimination of Slavery.
🌏 World Computer Literacy Day.
🌏 2D Artist Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇨🇦 Canada – Women’s Brain Health Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Mixed Breed Dog Day.
🇮🇳 India – Assam Day.
🇮🇷 Iran – Constitution Day.
🇮🇳 India – National Pollution Prevention Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Special Education Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Bank Employees Day.
🇨🇺 Cuba – Armed Forces Day.
🇦🇪 UAE – Independence Day.
🇱🇦 Laos – National Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1409 – Leipzig University opened
– 1804 – Napoleon I is crowned emperor
– 1805 – Russian defeat at the Battle of Austerlitz
– 1823 – US President James Monroe reads his doctrine
– 1848 – Emperor Franz Joseph ascends the Austrian throne
– 1852 – Napoleon III proclaims the Second Empire in France
– 1875 – Pulat Khan Uprising: The cavalry led by Batyr Tora is crushed by the punitive detachments of Pichigin and Meller-Zakomelsky
– 1902 – An earthquake measuring 6.5-9 on the Richter scale occurred in Andijan.
– 1917 – World War I: Soviet Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, withdrawing from the war with the Triple Alliance.
– 1920 – The Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded between Turkey and Armenia.
– 1925 – The Central Executive Committee of Uzbekistan adopts the decrees “On the confiscation of land and water” and “On the implementation of land and water reform”.
– 1942 – Enrico Fermi achieves the first nuclear chain reaction.
– 1956 – The yacht “Granma” delivers Ernesto Che Guevara and Fidel Castro to Cuba.
– 1971 – The Soviet interplanetary automatic station “Mars-3” lands on the surface of Mars for the first time in the world.
– 1971 – The United Arab Emirates is formed.
– 1975 – A Republic was proclaimed in Laos.
– 1976 – Fidel Castro was elected President of Cuba.
– 1977 – A Tu-154 plane crashed near Al-Bayda (Libya). 59 people died.
– 1982 – The first artificial human heart was installed at the University of Utah.
– 1990 – Clashes between military personnel and local residents took place in the city of Namangan.
– 2003 – The Order of Jaloliddin Manguberdi was awarded to the Khorezm region.
– 2008 – The music of “Shashmaqom” was recognized by UNESCO as a “Masterpiece of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity”.
– 2010 – The Viber messenger for iPhone was launched.
– 2010 – The most powerful forest fires in the history of Israel occurred.