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  • U.S.
    Thursday Dec 2, 1886
    Theodore Roosevelt

    Second Marriage

    U.S.
    Thursday Dec 2, 1886

    On December 2, 1886, Roosevelt married his childhood and family friend, Edith Kermit Carow.




  • U.S.
    Wednesday Dec 2, 1942
    Nuclear Power

    Chicago Pile-1

    U.S.
    Wednesday Dec 2, 1942

    In the United States, where Fermi and Szilárd had both emigrated, the discovery of the nuclear chain reaction led to the creation of the first man-made reactor, the research reactor known as Chicago Pile-1, which achieved criticality on December 2, 1942.




  • U.S.
    Tuesday Dec 2, 1997
    Robin Williams

    Best Supporting Actor

    U.S.
    Tuesday Dec 2, 1997

    Many of his later roles were in comedies tinged with pathos. His roles in comedy and dramatic films garnered Williams an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (for his role as a psychologist in Good Will Hunting (1997)), as well as two previous Academy Award nominations (for playing an English teacher in Dead Poets Society (1989)), and for playing a troubled homeless man in The Fisher King (1991). In 1991, he played an adult Peter Pan in the film Hook, although he had said that he would have to lose twenty-five pounds for the role.




  • U.S.
    Wednesday Dec 2, 2009
    Bank of America

    Bank of America announced it would repay the entire $45 billion it received in TARP and exit the program

    U.S.
    Wednesday Dec 2, 2009

    On December 2, 2009, Bank of America announced it would repay the entire $45 billion it received in TARP and exit the program, using $26.2 billion of excess liquidity along with $18.6 billion to be gained in "common equivalent securities" (Tier 1 capital). The bank announced it had completed the repayment on December 9.




  • San Bernardino, California, U.S.
    Wednesday Dec 2, 2015
    Mass Shootings in the United States

    San Bernardino Attack

    San Bernardino, California, U.S.
    Wednesday Dec 2, 2015

    On December 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and 22 others were seriously injured in an Islamic terrorist attack consisting of a mass shooting and an attempted bombing at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California. The perpetrators, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple living in the city of Redlands, targeted a San Bernardino County Department of Public Health training event and Christmas party of about 80 employees in a rented banquet room. Farook was a U.S.-born citizen of Pakistani descent, who worked as a health department employee. Malik was a Pakistani-born green cardholder.




  • U.S.
    Thursday Dec 2, 1886
    Theodore Roosevelt

    Second Marriage

    U.S.
    Thursday Dec 2, 1886

    On December 2, 1886, Roosevelt married his childhood and family friend, Edith Kermit Carow.




  • U.S.
    Wednesday Dec 2, 1942
    Nuclear Power

    Chicago Pile-1

    U.S.
    Wednesday Dec 2, 1942

    In the United States, where Fermi and Szilárd had both emigrated, the discovery of the nuclear chain reaction led to the creation of the first man-made reactor, the research reactor known as Chicago Pile-1, which achieved criticality on December 2, 1942.


  • U.S.
    Tuesday Dec 2, 1997
    Robin Williams

    Best Supporting Actor

    U.S.
    Tuesday Dec 2, 1997

    Many of his later roles were in comedies tinged with pathos. His roles in comedy and dramatic films garnered Williams an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (for his role as a psychologist in Good Will Hunting (1997)), as well as two previous Academy Award nominations (for playing an English teacher in Dead Poets Society (1989)), and for playing a troubled homeless man in The Fisher King (1991). In 1991, he played an adult Peter Pan in the film Hook, although he had said that he would have to lose twenty-five pounds for the role.


  • U.S.
    Wednesday Dec 2, 2009
    Bank of America

    Bank of America announced it would repay the entire $45 billion it received in TARP and exit the program

    U.S.
    Wednesday Dec 2, 2009

    On December 2, 2009, Bank of America announced it would repay the entire $45 billion it received in TARP and exit the program, using $26.2 billion of excess liquidity along with $18.6 billion to be gained in "common equivalent securities" (Tier 1 capital). The bank announced it had completed the repayment on December 9.


  • San Bernardino, California, U.S.
    Wednesday Dec 2, 2015
    Mass Shootings in the United States

    San Bernardino Attack

    San Bernardino, California, U.S.
    Wednesday Dec 2, 2015

    On December 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and 22 others were seriously injured in an Islamic terrorist attack consisting of a mass shooting and an attempted bombing at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California. The perpetrators, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple living in the city of Redlands, targeted a San Bernardino County Department of Public Health training event and Christmas party of about 80 employees in a rented banquet room. Farook was a U.S.-born citizen of Pakistani descent, who worked as a health department employee. Malik was a Pakistani-born green cardholder.


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