Editing December 2 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1908]] &ndash; [[Puyi]] becomes [[Emperor of China]] at the age of two.
*[[1917]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: Russia and the Central Powers sign an armistice at [[Brest-Litovsk]], and peace talks leading to the [[Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Russia–Central Powers)|Treaty of Brest-Litovsk]] begin.
*[[1927]] &ndash; Following 19 years of [[Ford Model T]] production, the [[Ford Motor Company]] unveils the [[Ford Model A (1927–1931)|Ford Model A]] as its new automobile.
*[[1930]] &ndash; [[Great Depression]]: In a [[State of the Union address|State of the Union message]], U.S. President [[Herbert Hoover]] proposes a $150&nbsp;million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
*[[1939]] &ndash; New York City's [[LaGuardia Airport]] opens.
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: During the [[Manhattan Project]], a team led by [[Enrico Fermi]] initiates the [[Chicago Pile-1|first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction]].
*[[1943]] &ndash; World War II: A [[Air raid on Bari|Luftwaffe bombing raid]] on the harbour of [[Bari]], Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including the American {{SS|John Harvey}}, which is carrying a stockpile of [[mustard gas]].
*[[1947]] &ndash; [[Jerusalem Riots of 1947]]: Arabs riot in [[Jerusalem]] in response to the [[United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine]].
*[[1949]] &ndash; [[Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others]] is adopted.
*[[1950]] &ndash; [[Korean War]]: The [[Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River]] ends with a decisive Chinese victory and [[United Nations Command|UN forces]] are completely expelled from [[North Korea]].
*[[1954]] &ndash; [[McCarthyism|Cold War]]: The [[United States Senate]] [[Joseph McCarthy#Censure and the Watkins Committee|votes 65 to 22 to censure]] [[Joseph McCarthy]] for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
*  1954   &ndash; The [[Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty]], between the United States and [[Taiwan]], is signed in Washington, D.C.
*[[1956]] &ndash; The [[Granma (yacht)|''Granma'']] reaches the shores of [[Cuba]]'s [[Oriente Province]]. [[Fidel Castro]], [[Che Guevara]] and 80 other members of the [[26th of July Movement]] disembark to initiate the [[Cuban Revolution]].
*[[1957]] &ndash; [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 126]] relating to the [[Kashmir conflict]] is adopted.
*[[1961]] &ndash; In a nationally broadcast speech, [[Cuba]]n leader [[Fidel Castro]] declares that he is a [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist–Leninist]] and that Cuba will adopt [[Communism]].
*[[1962]] &ndash; [[Vietnam War]]: After a trip to [[Vietnam]] at the request of U.S. President [[John F. Kennedy]], [[U.S. Senate Majority Leader]] [[Mike Mansfield]] becomes the first American official to comment adversely on the war's progress.
*[[1968]] &ndash; [[Wien Consolidated Airlines Flight 55]] crashes into [[Pedro Bay, Alaska]], killing all 39 people on board.<ref name="asn">{{ASN accident|id=19681202-0|type=Accident|accessdate=September 2, 2009}}</ref>
*[[1970]] &ndash; The [[United States Environmental Protection Agency]] begins operations.
*[[1971]] &ndash; [[Emirate of Abu Dhabi|Abu Dhabi]], [[Ajman]], [[Fujairah]], [[Emirate of Sharjah|Sharjah]], [[Dubai]], and [[Umm al-Quwain]] form the [[United Arab Emirates]].
*[[1972]] &ndash; [[Gough Whitlam]] is elected the 21st [[Prime Minister of Australia]] in the [[1972 Australian federal election]], defeating [[William McMahon]] and leading the [[Australian Labor Party]] back into office after 23 years in Opposition.<ref name="National Museum of Australia">{{cite web |date=6 December 2024 |title=Whitlam election |url=https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/whitlam-election |publisher=NMA}}</ref>
*[[1975]] &ndash; [[Laotian Civil War]]: The [[Pathet Lao]] seizes the [[Laos|Laotian]] capital of [[Vientiane]], forces the abdication of King [[Sisavang Vatthana]], and proclaims the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
*[[1976]] &ndash; [[Fidel Castro]] becomes [[President of Cuba]], replacing [[Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado]].
*[[1977]] &ndash; A [[Tupolev Tu-154]] [[1977 Libyan Arab Airlines Tu-154 crash|crashes]] near [[Benghazi]], Libya, killing 59.<ref name="ASN">{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |date= |title=Aviation Safety Network LZ-BTN accident description |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19771202-0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050408123450/http://aviation-safety.net:80/database/record.php?id=19771202-0 |archive-date=8 April 2005 |access-date=23 July 2010 |website=Aviation Safety Network |publisher=[[Flight Safety Foundation]]}}</ref>
*[[1980]] &ndash; [[Salvadoran Civil War]]: [[1980 murders of U.S. missionaries in El Salvador|Four American missionaries]] are raped and murdered by a death squad.
*[[1982]] &ndash; At the [[University of Utah]], [[Barney Clark (patient)|Barney Clark]] becomes the first person to receive a permanent [[artificial heart]].
*[[1988]] &ndash; [[Benazir Bhutto]] is sworn in as [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]], becoming the first woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state.
*1988   &ndash; [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']] is launched on [[STS-27]], a classified mission for the [[United States Department of Defense]].<ref name="AmericaSpace 2012-01-30">{{cite news |last=Evans |first=Ben |date=January 30, 2012 |title=Into the Black: NASA's Secret Shuttle Missions – Part Two |url=https://www.americaspace.com/2012/01/30/into-the-black-nasas-secret-shuttle-missions-part-two/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106083802/https://www.americaspace.com/2012/01/30/into-the-black-nasas-secret-shuttle-missions-part-two/ |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |work=AmericaSpace}}</ref>
*[[1989]] &ndash; The [[Peace Agreement of Hat Yai (1989)|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 (1968–1989)|communist insurgency in Malaysia]].
*[[1990]] &ndash; [[Space Shuttle Columbia|Space Shuttle ''Columbia'']] is launched on [[STS-35]], carrying the ASTRO-1 [[spacelab]] observatory.<ref>{{cite news |date=December 2, 1990 |title=Columbia Makes Successful Night Launch |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27544293/statesman_journal/ |newspaper=Statesman Journal |location=Salem, Oregon |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com |agency=Gannett News Service}}</ref>
*[[1991]] &ndash; Canada and Poland become the first nations to recognize the independence of [[Ukraine]] from the [[Soviet Union]].
*[[1992]] &ndash; [[Space Shuttle Discovery|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'']] is launched on [[STS-53]] for the United States Department of Defense.<ref name="STS53KSC">{{cite web |date=June 29, 2001 |title=STS-53 (52) |url=https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-53/mission-sts-53.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318083302/https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-53/mission-sts-53.html |archive-date=March 18, 2021 |access-date=February 11, 2022 |publisher=NASA}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>
*[[1993]] &ndash; [[Colombia]]n [[drug lord]] [[Pablo Escobar]] is shot and killed by police in [[Medellín]].
*  1993   &ndash; [[Space Shuttle program]]: [[STS-61]]: [[NASA]] launches the [[Space Shuttle Endeavour|Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'']] on a mission to repair the [[Hubble Space Telescope]].
*[[1999]] &ndash; The United Kingdom devolves political power in [[Northern Ireland]] to the [[Northern Ireland Executive]] following the [[Good Friday Agreement]].
*[[2001]] &ndash; [[Enron]] [[Enron scandal#Bankruptcy|files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy]].
*[[2015]] &ndash; [[2015 San Bernardino attack|San Bernardino attack]]: [[Sayyid|Syed]] [[Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik]] kill 14 people and wound 22 at the [[Inland Regional Center]] in [[San Bernardino, California]].
*[[2016]] &ndash; Thirty-six people die in [[2016 Oakland warehouse fire|a fire]] at a converted [[Oakland, California]], warehouse serving as an [[artist collective]].
*[[2020]] &ndash; [[Cannabis (drug)|Cannabis]] is [[Removal of cannabis and cannabis resin from Schedule IV of the Single Convention on narcotic drugs, 1961|removed from the list of most dangerous drugs]] of the [[Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs|international drug control treaty]] by the [[United Nations|UN]] [[United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs|Commission on Narcotic Drugs]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://undocs.org/en/E/2020/28/Add.1|title=Commission on Narcotic Drugs Report on the reconvened sixty-third session (2–4 December 2020) – Economic and Social Council Official Records, 2020 Supplement No. 8A [E/CN.7/2020/15/Add.1]|publisher=[[United Nations]]|year=2020|location=New-York|pages=5|chapter=Decision 63/17: Deletion of cannabis and cannabis resin from Schedule IV of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as amended by the 1972 Protocol}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=22 January 2021|title=The International Drug Control Conventions Schedules of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as amended by the 1972 Protocol, as at 22 January 2021 [ST/CND/1/Add.1/Rev.7]|url=https://undocs.org/en/ST/CND/1/Add.1/Rev.7|url-status=live|website=[[United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309204653/https://undocs.org/en/ST/CND/1/Add.1/Rev.7 |archive-date=2021-03-09 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-12-02|title=UN commission reclassifies cannabis, yet still considered harmful|url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/12/1079132|access-date=2021-05-26|website=UN News|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Kwai|first=Isabella|date=2020-12-02|title=U.N. Reclassifies Cannabis as a Less Dangerous Drug|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/world/europe/cannabis-united-nations-drug-policy.html|access-date=2021-05-26|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>