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Events on December 2

• 1409 In the presence of the Margraves Friedrich and Wilhelm, the University of Leipzig, which had been established as a result of the departure of German students from Charles University in Prague, is ceremonially opened after the semester had already begun on October 24.
• 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French in Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.
• 1914 Karl Liebknecht (SPD) is the only deputy in the German Reichstag to vote against the first extension of the war credits.
• 1931 The film Emil and the Detectives by Gerhard Lamprecht and Billy Wilder, based on the eponymous novel by Erich Kästner, premieres in Berlin.
• 1942 At the University of Chicago, physicist Enrico Fermi initiates the first controlled chain reaction as part of the Manhattan Project. This marks the beginning of the nuclear energy era.
• 1956 Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara land in eastern Cuba with 80 revolutionaries of the 26th of July Movement aboard the motor yacht Granma. This marks the beginning of the guerrilla war of the Cuban Revolution against the dictator Fulgencio Batista.
• 1971 The six emirates of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Quwain and Fujairah, which had previously been a British protectorate known as the Trucial States, gain their independence and unite to form the United Arab Emirates. Ra’s al-Khaymah joins the federation in February 1972.
• 1982 At the University of Utah Hospital, Barney Clark is the first person to be successfully implanted with an artificial heart.
• 1990 In reunified Germany, the first all-Berlin election since 1946 is held alongside the first all-German election since the end of the Second World War. Both elections are won by the CDU against the backdrop of German reunification.
• 1993 The Space Shuttle Endeavour launches as part of the STS-61 mission so that the crew can carry out the first servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope. Blurry images from the telescope are to be prevented in the future.
• 2005 The game console Xbox 360, developed by Microsoft, is released in Europe as the successor to the Xbox.
• 2010 The hosting rights for the 21st and 22nd FIFA Men's World Cups are awarded at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich. The hosting rights for 2018 go to Russia and for 2022 to Qatar.

Born on December 2

• 1881 Heinrich Barkhausen, German physicist
• 1884 Johannes Popitz, German jurist, politician and resistance fighter
• 1891 Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist
• 1901 Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-Italian footballer
• 1940 Gunter Schoß, German actor and presenter
• 1950 Ursela Monn, Swiss actress
• 1950 Paul Watson, Canadian animal rights activist
• 1960 Justus von Dohnányi, German film and television actor, author and director
• 1961 Gaby Köster, German actress and comedian
• 1970 Alexander Cejka, Czechoslovak-German golfer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „2. Dezember“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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