- I (heart) you, 2nd December!!!
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benjaminpe
- December 2nd, 19:05
December 2 is the 336th day of the year (337th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 29 days remaining until the end of the year.
* 1947 – Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
* 1954 – Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
* 1954 – The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic of China, is signed in Washington, D.C..
* 1956 – The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
* 1961 – In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
* 1962 – Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official not to make an optimistic public comment on the war's progress.
* 1970 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
* 1971 – Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
* 1972 – Gough Whitlam becomes the first Labor Prime Minister of Australia for 23 years.
* 1975 – Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
* 1976 – Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
* 1977 – The first World Series Cricket "supertest" match played between Australia and West Indies
* 1980 – Four U.S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador.
* 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
* 1990 – A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German elections since 1932.
* 1993 – Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.
* 1993 – Space Shuttle program: STS-61 – NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
* 1999 – Glenbrook rail accident near Sydney, New South Wales.
* 1999 – The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.
* 2001 – Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
* 2008 – Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat resigns after the 2008 Thailand political crisis.
As you can see, I am quite bored here at work. Painted the house earlier on today. Did quite a "full" job on the first floor and from the second floor onwards, well, we just sort of touch up here touch up there...
Last weekend was absolutely crazy and I love it. KTV, clubbing, parties, meeting up with close friends, work was smooth etc etc It is a combination of everything... Life's been good to me.. Thank you life!!!!