1. 1804: Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of the French in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
2. 1823: President James Monroe proclaimed the Monroe Doctrine, a U.S. policy that opposed European colonialism in the Americas.
3. 1851: French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte staged a coup d'état, dissolving the French National Assembly and establishing himself as Emperor Napoleon III.
4. 1942: The first controlled nuclear chain reaction took place at the University of Chicago as part of the Manhattan Project.
5. 1954: The U.S. Senate voted to censure Senator Joseph McCarthy for his conduct during the Army-McCarthy hearings.
6. 1970: The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began operations.
7. 1982: At the University of Utah, Barney Clark became the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
8. 2001: Enron Corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, marking one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in U.S. history.
9. 2010: WikiLeaks began releasing a collection of more than 250,000 American diplomatic cables.
These are just a few examples, and many more events, both significant and minor, have occurred on December 2 throughout history.
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