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Notable anniversaries in history for today: December 2
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Alexander Haig Junior in Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, USA; (Republican) US Secretary of State (1981-82)/general.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Jonathan Frid; actor (Barnabas Collins - Dark Shadows).
- 100th: 1924 - British-German trade agreement signed.
- 80th: 1944 - 10th Heisman Trophy Award: Les(lie) Horvath, Ohio State (quarterback).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Cathy Lee Crosby in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Coach, That's Incredible).
- 80th: 1944 - Filippo T Marinetti, Italian writer (father of futurism), dies at age 67.
- 80th: 1944 - Charles de Gaulle meets with Josef Stalin in Moscow, over nine days. A military alliance is signed, against Germany now, and after the war.
- 80th: 1944 - German troops seize Betuwse dikes.
- 80th: 1944 - JW Ummels, Dutch resistance fighter (House of Saxon-Nazi), dies.
- 80th: 1944 - US 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Dan Butler; actor (Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe - Frasier).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Huub Stapel; Dutch actor (Amsterdamned, Attic: Hiding of Anne Frank).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Stone Phillips; news host (NBC Dateline).
- 70th: 1954 - Frank Selvy of Milwaukee sets then NBA record of 24 of 26 free throws.
- 70th: 1954 - US Senate censures Joe McCarthy (Senator-Republican-Wisconsin) for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Brian Habib; NFL guard (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Chip Hale in Santa Clara, California, USA; infielder (Minnesota Twins).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Yolanda Henry in Houston, Texas, USA; high jumper.
- 60th: 1964 - Roger Bissière, French painter, dies at age 76.
- 50th: 1974 - Giant Baba beats Jack Brisco in Kagoshimi, to become NWA champion.
- 50th: 1974 - Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for six days.
- 40th: 1984 - Bob Hawke's government is re-elected in Australia with a reduced majority.
- 40th: 1984 - Fourth meeting of San Francisco Giants-New York Jets, Giants even series at two with 20-10 win.
- 40th: 1984 - Bob Holland takes 9-83 for New South Wales against South Australia, Sydney Cricket Ground.
- 40th: 1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk.
- 30th: 1994 - Passenger liner Achille Lauro (former Willem Ruys) sinks off the coast of Somalia.
- 30th: 1994 - Donald John Urquhart, librarian, dies at age 85.
- 30th: 1994 - James Norman Dalrymple Anderson, lawyer, dies at age 86.
- 30th: 1994 - The Australian government agrees to pay reparations to indigenous Australians who were displaced during the nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s.
- 25th: 1999 - AlliedSignal Incorporated changes its company name to Honeywell International.
- 25th: 1999 - The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.
- 20th: 2004 - David Bieber, a 38-year-old former American marine, is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a Leeds policeman and the attempted murder of two others following an incident on December 26, 2003. The trial judge recommends that he should never be released from prison.
- 20th: 2004 - Nintendo releases the Nintendo DS handheld video game system in Japan. 500,000 units are sold in the first four days.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of Maggie Jones at age 75 in England; actress (Coronation Street TV show).
- 5th: 2019 - Typhoon Kammuri hits the Philippines, causing the evacuation of 200,000 people.
- 5th: 2019 - (to December 13) The 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference takes place in Madrid, Spain.
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