What Happened On December 2

What Happened On Dec 2 Events

1763 Dec 2 Touro Synagogue, The First Synagogue In The United States Is Dedicated
On December 2, 1763, members of the Jewish community of Newport, Rhode Island witnessed the dedication of the Touro Synagogue, the first synagogue in what became the United States. Desig...
1886 Dec 2 Theodore Roosevelt Marries Edith Kermit Carow
Following the election, he went to London in 1886 and married his childhood sweetheart, Edith Kermit Carow. They honeymooned in Europe, and Roosevelt led a party to the summit of Mont Bla...
1941 Dec 2 "Ball Of Fire" Is Released
Ball of Fire (also known as The Professor and the Burlesque Queen) is a 1941 comedy film about a group of professors laboring for years to write an encyclopedia and their encounter with a...
1942 Dec 2 First Self-Sustained Nuclear Chain Reaction Achieved
At 3:25 P.M. on December 2, 1942, the Atomic Age began inside an enormous tent on a squash court under the stands of the University of Chicago's Stagg Field. There, scientists headed by ...
1943 Dec 2 Bari Air Raid
The Air Raid on Bari was an air attack on Allied forces and shipping in Bari, Italy by Nazi German bombers on December 2, 1943. In the attack, 105 German Junkers Ju 88 bombers of Luftflot...
1947 Dec 2
to 1947 Dec 4
 Jerusalem riots
The 1947 Jerusalem Riots occurred following the vote in the UN General Assembly in favour of the 1947 UN Partition Plan on 29 November 1947. The Arab Higher Committee declared a three-...
1949 Dec 2 Ronald Reagan Appears as Yank in "The Hasty Heart"
The Hasty Heart (1949) is a melodramatic film which tells the story of a group of wounded Allied soldiers during World War II who rally around a surly, unappreciative Scotsman when they f...
1952 Dec 2 Billy Vessels Wins Heisman Trophy
A great star on a star-studded Sooner team, Vessels scored 18 touchdowns, gained over 1,000 yards rushing and caught eight passes for 200 yards. In his senior year he threw 18 passes and ...
1956 Dec 2 Fidel Castro leads group in a rebellion to overthrow Fulgencio Batista
Since regular contacts with a KGB agent named Nikolai Sergeevich Leonov in Mexico City had not resulted in the hoped for weapon supply, they decided to go to the United States to gather p...
1959 Dec 2 Malpasset Dam Collapse
Malpasset was an arch dam on the Reyran River, constructed approximately 7 km north of Fréjus on the Côte d'Azur, southern France, in the Var département. It collapsed on December 2, 1959...
1965 Dec 2 Mike Garrett Wins Heisman Trophy
In three years with the Trojan teams, he gained 4,876 yards in rushing, passing, receiving, punt returns and kickoff returns. This is approximately 2.7 miles. Garrett's rushing record of ...
1968 Dec 2 "Cruising with Ruben & the Jets" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention Is Released
Cruising With Ruben & The Jets is an album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, released in 1968 (see 1968 in music), and controversially reissued in an alternate mix with newly r...
1970 Dec 2 Creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency
On July 9, 1970, President Nixon transmitted Reorganization Plan No. 3 to the United States Congress by executive order, creating the EPA as a single, independent agency from a number of ...
1984 Dec 2
to 1984 Dec 3
 Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster
On December 3, 1984, a Union Carbide Corporation plant in Bhopal leaked 32 tons of toxic methyl isocyanate gas, leading to the Bhopal disaster. The official death toll of this disaster wa...
1988 Dec 2 "The Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad!" Is Released
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! is a 1988 comedy film, the first in a series of films starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, and O. J. Simpson. The thr...
1996 Dec 2 STS-80 Incident
Video taken during mission STS-80 of Space Shuttle Columbia while in orbit as analyzed by Mark J. Carlotto show three different unusual phenomena: Two slow moving circular objects; a stra...
2000 Dec 2 The Smashing Pumpkins break up
On May 23, 2000, in a live radio interview on KROQ (Los Angeles), The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan announced the band's decision to break up at the end of that year following a...
2003 Dec 2 Kanye West releases "Slow Jamz" single
"Slow Jamz" is the Grammy-nominated first single from Twista's album Kamikaze and from Kanye West's debut album The College Dropout. Released in 2003, the single, which features Kanye Wes...
2004 Dec 2 Stephen King publishes Faithful
Faithful is a book co-written by Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan. It chronicles exchanges between King and O'Nan about the Red Sox's upcoming 2004 season, beginning with an e-mail in summe...
2007 Dec 2 Boston Celtics defeat Cleveland Cavaliers, 80-70
The clock oddly struck at 12:30 p.m. for tip-off. Cavaliers star LeBron James was sitting on the bench in street clothes. And the weary Celtics and the sold-out TD Banknorth Garden crowd ...
2009 Dec 2 Boston Bruins defeat Tampa Bay Lightning, 4-1
Marco Sturm recorded his first multi-goal game of the season, putting two of his nine shots behind Mike Smith to lead the Bruins to a 4-1 win. "He's a heck of a player," said Mark Recc...
2009 Dec 2 Memphis Grizzlies defeat Minnesota Timberwolves, 97-95
One remains so very lonely for the Timberwolves. They now have won twice in 18 games this season and never consecutively, not after Wednesday's game -- a 97-95 loss to Memphis at Targe...
2009 Dec 2 Miami Hurricanes defeat Minnesota Golden Gophers, 63-58
CORAL GABLES, FLA. - Tubby Smith's postgame Q&A with reporters had a familiar tone. The Gophers didn't execute down the stretch, the coach said. They missed too many free throws. The s...
2009 Dec 2 Minnesota Wild defeat Nashville Predators, 5-4
At the end in Chicago, Andrew Ebbett only broke a sweat chomping on pressbox popcorn. At the end in Montreal, Guillaume Latendresse broke a bigger sweat getting out of his car than on the...
2009 Dec 2 Orlando Magic defeat New York Knicks, 118-104
ORLANDO - Nate Robinson wasn't dancing, pounding his chest or running his mouth Wednesday night. And he definitely wasn't scoring. The high-flying, hyperactive guard was successfully m...
2009 Dec 2 Tiger Woods Publicly Apologizes About Alleged Affair
"I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves." —Tiger Woods
2009 Dec 2 Washington Wizards defeat Milwaukee Bucks, 104-102
  PLAYER OF THE GAME:Earl Boykins was the smallest guy on the court but had the biggest impact in the final quarter. The former Bucks guard scored 11 points in the fourth quarter and s...
2009 Dec 2 Wisconsin Badgers defeat Duke Blue Devils, 73-69
Madison — The rocket-like roar rose up from the floor of the Kohl Center on Wednesday night, drifted out over the streets of Madison, across the Big Ten Conference and perhaps to every co...
2010 Dec 2 Former Chicago Cub Ron Santo Dies
"The Cubs have lost their biggest fan." —Pat Hughes, Ron Santo's Broadcasting Partner on WGN Radio
2010 Dec 2
to 2010 Dec 5
 Mount Carmel Forest Fire
A 14-year-old boy from the Carmel region admitted Monday to throwing a piece of burning coal into the forest and causing what later became the largest and most devastating forest fire in ...
2010 Dec 2 NASA Discovers New Life Form
A new species of bacteria found in California's Mono Lake is the first known life-form that uses arsenic to make its DNA and proteins, scientists announced today. (Get a genetics overview...
2010 Dec 2 Ron Santo Dies
Ron Santo played his last of 15 Major League seasons for the crosstown Chicago White Sox, but he was always a Cub. A star third baseman and part of the Cubs teams of the 1960s with Hall o...