Welcome to IQ Curator. IQ Curator is most searched website for Current Affairs, GK (General Knowledge), MCQs Quiz, Short Questions, One Liner Questions-Answers, GK GS Quiz Current Affairs, General Studies, Current Affairs and Aptitude for UPSC, SSC, Banking / IBPS, IAS, NTSE, CLAT, Railways, NDA, CDS, Judiciary, UPPSC, RPSC, GPSC, MPSC, MPPSC, NCERT, CBSC, ICSE, CISCE, NIOS, International Baccalaureate - IB, CIE, Trivia, Funny Quiz, Quiz Game, Daily News Headlines, Current Affairs 2nd Dec-2021, Free eBooks and other states civil services / government job recruitment examinations of India.
Person Born on 02nd December
1855 - N.G. Chandavarkar - was the President of the Indian National Congress.
1886 - Baba Raghavdas - was a famous public servant and saint of Uttar Pradesh.
1901 - Pitambar Dutt Badthwal - colleague of the famous Hindi language litterateur and scholar Acharya Ramchandra Shukla.
1912 - B. Nagi Reddy - Famous producer-director of South Indian cinema.
1937 - Manohar Joshi - Indian politician, former Speaker of Lok Sabha and 15th Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
1939 - Achala Nagar - litterateur, story writer, Hindi film screenwriter and dialogue writer.
1963 - VA Shiva Ayyadurai - American scientist, engineer and entrepreneur of Indian origin.
Died on 02 December
1918 - Gurudas Banerjee - was a prominent educationist of India. In 1888 AD, he was appointed as the lower judge of the Calcutta (present-day Kolkata) High Court.
1969 - Kliment Voroshilov - Chief Soviet military officer and president during the Stalin era. He was also a politician.
1996 - Marri Chenna Reddy - General Secretary of the Provincial Congress Committee and P.C.C. Was a member of the Working Committee for 30 years.
2012 - Preeti Ganguly - was a character actress of Hindi cinema world.
2014 - Deven Verma - was a famous comedian of Hindi cinema.
2014 - AR Antulay - An Indian politician and the 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
2019 – Well-known Hollywood actress Shelly Morrison passed away.
2020 - Lalit Surjan, a progressive thinker, writer, poet, journalist and editor-in-chief of Deshbandhu, died at the age of 74.
2020 - Former Prime Minister of Pakistan PM Zafarullah Jamali passed away.
Important Occasions and Celebrations of 02 December
- National Math Day.
- Special Education Day.
- National Fritters Day.
- National Pollution Control Day.
- Abdul Rahman Antulay Memorial Day.
- International Computer Literacy Day.
- International Day of Abolition of Slavery.
- International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
- Saint Dnyaneshwar death anniversary (Margashirsha Krishna Trayodashi)
Important Events of 02 December
1730 - Kole Sibber is appointed British Poet Laureate under George II.
1751 – Battle of Arni in India (Second Carnatic War): A British East India Company-led army under Robert Clive defeats a much larger Franco-Indian army under the command of Rana Sahib at Archana.
1792 - George Washington is elected President of the United States.
1796 - Baji Rao II is made Peshwa of the Maratha Empire. He was the last Peshwa of the Maratha Empire.
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France.
1818 - Illinois is admitted as the 21st US state.
1828 - Andrew Jackson is elected as the 7th President of the United States.
1829 - Viceroy Lord William Bentinck banned the practice of Sati in India.
1832 - Andrew Jackson is re-elected to the US in the US presidential election.
1834 - The first regular census in Zollverein Germany is established, at which time Germany had a population of 23,478,120.
1848 - Joseph I of France becomes Emperor of Austria.
1911 - George V and Queen Mary become the first British monarchs to visit India. The Gateway of India was built in the memory of his arrival in Bombay (now Mumbai).
1942 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram School is established in Pondicherry (now Puducherry) which was later known as Sri Aurobindo International Center of Education.
1971 - The United Arab Emirates declares independence from Britain.
1976 - Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba.
1982 - Socialist majority in the First Parliament of Spain and Filip González elected Prime Minister.
1989 - Vishwanath Pratap Singh became the seventh Prime Minister of the country.
1995 - Nick Leeson, a prominent figure in the Berings Bank scandal, is sentenced to six and a half years in prison by a Singapore court.
1999 - Private sector investment in the insurance sector in India is approved.
2002 – 219 people rescued from a burning passenger ship 'Vidstar' off the island of Bora-Bora in the Pacific Ocean.
2003 – The United Nations Court of War crimes in The Hague finds Momir Nikolic, a former Bosnian Serb military commander guilty of the 1995 Sbernica massacre, and sentenced to 27 years in prison.
2005 - The Government of Pakistan enacted a law to prohibit the publication of education and literature by madrassas to spread religious hatred and inspire terrorism.
2006 – 208 people are killed and 261 injured when volcanic debris collapses in the Philippines.
2007 - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf bans protests and rallies in the country in view of the proposed elections on 8 January.
2008 - Punjab National Bank cuts FCNR interest rates.
2012 – At least 475 people are killed in a hurricane in the Philippines.
2019 – Armed men open fire inside a church in Burkina Faso, killing at least 14 people.
2019 - With the approval of Rajya Sabha, the Electronic Cigarette Prohibition Bill-2019 is passed in the Parliament.
2019 - Sub Lieutenant Shivangi Swarup of Muzaffarpur, Bihar achieved the distinction of becoming the first woman pilot of the Navy.
2020 - India and the US signed a Memorandum of Understanding for mutual cooperation in the field of Intellectual Property Rights.
2020 - Britain becomes the first Western country to approve a vaccine for the COVID-19 vaccine.
2020 - India and Russia hold discussions on UN Security Council related issues in Moscow.
You may also Click Here for : All Dec'21 Months Current Affairs
