December 2
People born on this day are Sagittarius.
- 1988
Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-27, a classified mission for the United States Department of Defense.
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The Peace Agreement of Hat Yai is signed and ratified by the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) and the governments of Malaysia and Thailand, ending the over two-decade-long communist insurgency in Malaysia.
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Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-35, carrying the ASTRO-1 spacelab observatory.
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Canada and Poland become the first nations to recognize the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union.
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Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-53 for the United States Department of Defense.
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Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed by police in Medellín.
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Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
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The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive following the Good Friday Agreement.
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Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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Thirty-six people die in a fire at a converted Oakland, California, warehouse serving as an artist collective.
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Cannabis is removed from the list of most dangerous drugs of the international drug control treaty by the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
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2005Learner Tien, American tennis player
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2004Ilia Malinin, American competitive figure skater
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2003Neil Erasmus, South African-Australian footballer
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1998Annalise Basso, American actress
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1998Anna Kalinskaya, Russian tennis player
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1998Juice Wrld, American rapper, singer and songwriter (died 2019)
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1997De'Andre Hunter, American basketball player
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1996Jake Doran, Australian cricketer
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1995Uladzislau Hancharou, Belarusian trampolinist
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1994Zach Cunningham, American football player
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1994Aaron Jones, American football player
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1994Elias Lindholm, Swedish ice hockey player
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