What are the important events that happened on December 2? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

December 2: Facts & Myths About This Day

December 2 is the 336^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 29 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 19, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,410,560 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatriacontahexagon’ day.

Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 77 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,729 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

December 2 Historical Events

• 1409 –
  The University of Leipzig opens.
• 1763 –
  Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what became the United States.
• 1845 –
  Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
• 1917 –
  An armistice is signed between Russia and the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk began.
• 1920 –
  Following more than a month of Turkish-Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.
• 1927 –
  Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
• 1943 –
  A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including an American Liberty ship, the John Harvey, with a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.
• 1962 –
  Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official not to make an optimistic public comment on the war’s progress.
• 1970 –
  The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
• 2001 –
  Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Who were born on December 2?

• 1754 –
  William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)
• 1810 –
  Henry Yesler, American entrepreneur and politician (d. 1892)
• 1934 –
  Sissela Bok, Swedish philosopher and ethicist
• 1944 –
  Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)
• 1951 –
  Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher
• 1954 –
  Stone Phillips, American television journalist
• 1958 –
  Uladzimir Parfianovich, Belarusian canoer
• 1963 –
  Dan Gauthier, American actor
• 1963 –
  Ron Sutter, Canadian hockey player
• 1981 –
  Danijel Pranjić, Croatian football player

Who died on December 2?

• 1719 –
  Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (b. 1634)
• 1814 –
  Marquis de Sade, French writer (b. 1740)
• 1844 –
  Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (b. 1768)
• 1860 –
  Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager (b. 1796)
• 1953 –
  Reginald Baker, Australian athlete and actor (b. 1884)
• 1966 –
  Giles Cooper, Anglo-Irish playwright (b. 1918)
• 1983 –
  Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (b. 1904)
• 2002 –
  Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (b. 1926)
• 2004 –
  Alicia Markova, British ballerina (b. 1910)
• 2005 –
  Van Tuong Nguyen, Thai-born Australian drug smuggler (b. 1980)