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December 2 is the 336th day of the year (337th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 29 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 1244 – ...
Abolish child slavery. The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery [1] is a yearly event on December 2, organized since 1986 by the United Nations General Assembly.. The Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others [2] was approved by the United Nations General Assembly [3] on December 2, 1949.
December is the twelfth and final month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. December, from the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry. December’s name derives from the Latin word decem (meaning ten) because it was originally the tenth month of the year in the calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC, which began in ...
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, also referred to as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day or Pearl Harbor Day, is observed annually in the United States on December 7, to remember and honor the 2,403 Americans who were killed in the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, which led to the United States declaring war on Japan the next day and thus entering World ...
The coup d'état of 2 December 1851 was a self-coup staged by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (later Napoleon III), at the time President of France under the Second Republic.Code-named Operation Rubicon and timed to coincide with the anniversary of Napoleon I's coronation and victory at Austerlitz, the coup dissolved the National Assembly, granted dictatorial powers to the president and preceded the ...
The UAE National Day (Arabic: اليوم الوطني; Al Yawm Al Watani") is celebrated yearly on 2 December to commemorate the formation of the United Arab Emirates. [1] The seventh emirate, Ras Al Khaimah, was added to the federation on 10 February 1972 making it the last emirate to join. [2]
December 14 – Alfredo Kindelán, Spanish general and politician (b. 1879) December 15 – Charles Laughton, English actor and director (b. 1899) December 16 – Lew Landers, American TV and film director (b. 1901) December 17 – Thomas Mitchell, American actor (b. 1892) December 18 – Garrett Mattingly, American historian (b. 1900)
December 2 – Mal Waldron, jazz pianist, composer, and arranger (b. 1925) December 3 – Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970) December 5 – Roone Arledge, sports and news broadcasting executive (b. 1931) December 6. Father Philip Berrigan, priest, member of the Plowshares Movement and political activist (b. 1923)