TOP TEN LISTS
Today in History
Tuesday, 02 December 2025
2008
Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat resigns after the 2008 Thailand political crisis.
2001
Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
1999
Glenbrook rail accident near Sydney, New South Wales.
The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.
1993
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.
Space Shuttle program: STS-61
1990
A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German elections since 1932.
1988
Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
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.
1977
The first World Series Cricket "supertest" match played between Australia and West Indies
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