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2 Dec 2001
Enron files for bankruptcy.
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2 Dec 1993
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot and killed in Medellín.
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2 Dec 1993
NASA's Endeavour Space Shuttle was launched through Mission STS-61.
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2 Dec 1988
Benazir Bhutto takes office as Pakistan's Prime Minister, becoming the first woman PM of Pakistan.
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2 Dec 1982
The first artificial heart was successfully implanted.
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2 Dec 1970
The United States Environmental Protection Agency was formed in the US under Director William Ruckelshaus.
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2 Dec 1960
Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovered a 1.4 million-year-old Homo erectus in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
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2 Dec 1950
The 'I Robot' collection of sci-fi short stories by Isaac Asimov was published by Genome Press in the US.
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2 Dec 1942
The world's first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction happened in Chicago Pile-1 at the University of Chicago. It was overseen by Enrico Fermi.
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2 Dec 1939
LaGuardia Airport in New York City opens its doors.
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2 Dec 1908
The Chinese child Emperor Pu Yi ascended the Chinese throne at the age of two.
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2 Dec 1899
The Battle of Tirad Pass was fought.
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2 Dec 1867
Charles Dickens gave his first public reading.
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2 Dec 1804
Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned the Emperor of France in Paris.
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2 Dec 1766
Sweden introduced a groundbreaking Freedom of Press Act, becoming the first nation to introduce freedom of speech.
