Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 2

This is a list of selected December 2 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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Images

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  Crown of Napoleon
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  The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David
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  James Monroe
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  Enrico Fermi
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  Chicago Pile-1
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  Napoleon III
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  The Battle of Austerlitz, 2nd December 1805 by François Gérard
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  Emperor Franz Joseph
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  1928 Ford Model A
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  Edith Roosevelt (née Carow), c. 1903

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
National Day in Laos (1975)	Neither of the two sources provided mentions National Day, or verifies the date
and the United Arab Emirates (1971)	Laos: multiple issues; UAE: refimprove section
1409 – Leipzig University in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, one of the oldest universities in Europe, was established.	refimprove section, citation style
1763 – The Touro Synagogue, the oldest surviving Jewish synagogue building in North America, was formally dedicated.	refimprove section
1804 – Napoleon was crowned Emperor of the French at Notre-Dame de Paris.	Too much unreferenced
1823 – U.S. president James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine, a proclamation of opposition to European colonialism in the New World.	Too much uncited
1848 – Franz Joseph became Emperor of Austria.	refimprove section
1908 – Two-year-old Puyi became Emperor of China, the last one before the Republic of China was declared in 1912.	Unreferenced section, featured on February 12
1920 – The Treaty of Alexandropol, a peace treaty between the Democratic Republic of Armenia and the Grand National Assembly of Turkey ending the Turkish Invasion of Armenia, was signed before the declaration of the Republic of Turkey.	short
1975 – The Pathet Lao overthrew the royalist government in Vientiane, forcing King Savang Vatthana to abdicate, and established the Lao People's Democratic Republic.	refimprove section
1980 – Four American missionaries were murdered by a military death squad in El Salvador.	Quite a few citation needed tags
1999 – The United Kingdom devolved political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.	refimprove section
2008 – Thai political crisis: The Constitutional Court of Thailand dissolved three political parties, including the governing People's Power Party, leading to the resignation of prime minister Somchai Wongsawat.	Crisis: unreferenced section; Wongsawat: refimprove
Vincent Bourne |d|1747|	Lede too short
Inori Minase |b|1995	too many {cn} tags

Eligible

• 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French forces led by Napoleon decisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army commanded by Tsar Alexander I at the Battle of Austerlitz (depicted).
• 1852 – Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte established the Second French Empire, declaring himself Emperor of the French as Napoleon III.
• 1886 – Edith Carow married Theodore Roosevelt, the future 26th president of the United States, at St George's, Hanover Square, London.
• 1927 – The Ford Motor Company introduced the second version of the Model A, its first new model in 18 years.
• 1942 – Manhattan Project scientists led by Enrico Fermi initiated the first self-sustaining chain reaction in the experimental nuclear reactor Chicago Pile-1.
• 1950 – Korean War: UN forces began a retreat from North Korea following defeat at the Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River.
• 1954 – The United States Senate voted of 67 to 22 to approve a resolution condemning Senator Joseph McCarthy who continued to serve in the Senate until his death two and a half years later.
• 1962 – Returning from a fact-finding mission, U.S. senator Mike Mansfield became the first American official to comment adversely on the progress of the Vietnam War.
• 1989 – The Malayan Communist Party and the Malaysian government signed a peace accord to end a 21-year communist insurgency.
• 2015 – In San Bernardino, California, a married couple carried out a mass shooting at a Christmas party before fleeing and dying in a shootout with police.
• 2016 – Thirty-six people died when a fire broke out at an illegally converted warehouse in Oakland, California, the deadliest U.S. building fire since 2003.
• Born/died: | William Shirley |b|1694| António Luís de Seabra, 1st Viscount of Seabra |b|1798| Marquis de Sade |d|1814| Erima Northcroft |b|1884| Allen Wright |d|1885| Ivan Bagramyan |b|1897| John Barbirolli |b|1899| Ralph Richardson |b|1902| Wynton Kelly |b|1931| Francis Spellman |d|1967| Britney Spears |b|1981 Chaudhry Muhammad Ali |d|1982

Notes

• Assassination of Benazir Bhutto appears on December 27, so her article should not appear in the same year

December 2

Benazir Bhutto

• 1899 – Philippine–American War: A 60-man Filipino rearguard was defeated at the Battle of Tirad Pass, but delayed the American advance long enough to ensure President Emilio Aguinaldo's escape.
• 1943 – World War II: The Luftwaffe conducted a surprise air raid on Allied ships in Bari, Italy, sinking twenty-eight vessels and releasing one ship's secret cargo of mustard gas.
• 1956 – Cuban Revolution: The yacht Granma, carrying Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement, reached the shores of Cuba.
• 1988 – Benazir Bhutto (pictured) took office as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state.
• 2001 – Less than two months after disclosing accounting violations, the Texas-based energy firm Enron filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, evaporating nearly $11 billion in shareholder wealth.

• John Breckinridge (b. 1760)
• William Burges (b. 1827)
• Aaron Copland (d. 1990)
• Shyam Swarup Agarwal (d. 2013)

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