Hello everyone, today is December 2, 2023, and here are some of the major events that happened today in history:
Domestic: 1On December 2, 885, the military strategist of the late Tang Dynasty and the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Li Cunqiao was born
2.On December 2, 1907, the Zhennanguan Uprising broke out
3.On December 2, 1908, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Aixin Jueluo Puyi, ascended the throne
4.On December 2, 1929, Chinese paleontologist Pei Wenzhong discovered the first fossilized skull of an ape-man in the early Paleolithic period of China, which was called "Peking Man" in Zhoukoudian, southwest of Beijing
5.On December 2, 1988, the Chinese climbed Vinson Peak in Antarctica, setting a record for the shortest time to reach the summit
6.On December 2, 1992, China purchased satellites in orbit from foreign countries for the first time
7.On December 2, 1998, the Summer Palace and the Temple of Heaven in Beijing were inscribed on the World Heritage List by the United Nations
8.On December 2, 2007, the Hong Kong Kowloon-Canton Railway (the former "Kowloon-Canton Railway" founded in 1910) and the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway (Hong Kong MTR), which was opened in 1979, merged to become the Hong Kong Railway *** MTR Corporation), ushering in a new era of Hong Kong railway services
9.On December 2, 2013, Chang'e-3 was successfully launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
Abroad: 1On December 2, 1409, the University of Leipzig, one of the oldest universities in Europe, was founded
2.On December 2, 1547, the Spanish colonizer of South America, Honan Cortez, died;
3.On December 2, 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned First Emperor of France at Notre-Dame Cathedral
4.On December 2, 1805, one of the most famous battles in modern world history, the Battle of Austerlitz (Battle of the Three Emperors), ended in a French victory
5.On December 2, 1823, the Monroe Doctrine of the United States, which opposed the expansion of Western Europe in the Western Hemisphere, was released, and the "Monroe Declaration" was published
6.On December 2, 1859, John Brown, the representative of the United States against black slavery, died
7.On December 2, 1942, under the auspices of Italian physicist Fermi, the United States built the world's first atomic reactor;
8.On December 2, 1971, the Mars-3 probe of the former Soviet Union made its first successful soft landing on the surface of Mars
9.On December 2, 1999, the high-level meeting of the International Conference on the Protection of the Ozone Layer opened in Beijing (the largest international environmental protection conference hosted by China to date).
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