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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 – ...
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.
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 ...
2 December 2024. (2024-12-02) Frequency. Annual. 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.
In 1994, the United States Congress, by Pub. L. 103–308, 108 Stat. 1169, designated December 7 of each year as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. [1] The joint resolution was signed by President Bill Clinton on August 23, 1994. It became 36 U.S.C. § 129 (Patriotic and National Observances and Ceremonies) of the United States Code. [2]
December 12 is the 346th day of the year (347th in leap years) ... [2] 1601–1900. 1787 – Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the US Constitution. [3]
The attack on Pearl Harbor[nb 3] was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, just before 8:00 a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941. At the time, the United States was a neutral country in World War II.
The "Day of Infamy" speech, sometimes referred to as the Infamy speech, was a speech delivered by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, to a joint session of Congress on December 8, 1941. The previous day, the Empire of Japan attacked United States military bases at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, and declared war on ...