2nd December anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1859
  • "Birth of Georges Seurat, French artist, founder of the French school of Neo-Impressionism (Pointillism)"
  • 1906
  • Hungary
  • "Birth of Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born American engineer who developed the first commercial colour television system and invented the LP (long-playing) record"
• event
  • 1409
  • Germany
  • "The University of Leipzig, Germany opened"
  • 1697
  • Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
  • 1956
  • Fidel Castro and an armed group which included Che Guevara landed in Cuba to attempt to overthrow the government - they failed and most of the group were killed
  • 1988
  • Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan .
  • 1994
  • Australia
  • "The Australian Government agreed to pay A$13,500,000 in reparations to Aborigines who were displaced by nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1960s"
  • 1999
  • The UK devolved political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive Committee
• Death
  • 1859
  • "Death of John Brown, American militant abolitionist leader, hanged for his raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in October 1859" more
  • 1993
  • "Death of Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug cartel leader ."