A bit of December 2nd history…
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France in Paris
1823 - US President Monroe declares his “Monroe Doctrine” a US foreign policy regarding Latin America
1845 - Manifest Destiny: US President Polk announces to Congress that the US should aggressively expand into the West (pictured)
1942 - World’s 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction occurs in Chicago Pile-1; world’s 1st nuclear reactor
1960 - Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovers 1.4 million year old Homo erectus in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
1971 - United Arab Emirates forms and declares independence from UK
1976 - Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba
2014 - Stephen Hawking claims that Artificial Intelligence could be a “threat to mankind” and spell the end of the human race
On December 2, 2023 at 01:01AM, some big things happened. Click the date to read more.