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2 December 2011 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 2 December 2011 was a Friday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “We Found Love” by Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris.
- Top Film of 2011
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2011 was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.
- Bestselling Novel of 2011
- “The Litigators” by John Grisham was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 2011.
- Top-Rated TV Show
- “Sunday Night Football” (NBC) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 2011–12 season.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 2 December is Sagittarius.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 2 December 2011 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for December is Turquoise.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 2 December 2011 was First Quarter.
On this day: 2 December
- 1992 Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-53 for the United States Department of Defense.
- 1993 Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
- 1999 The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive following the Good Friday Agreement.
- 2001 Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- 2020 Cannabis is removed from the list of most dangerous drugs of the international drug control treaty by the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
Famous people born on December 2
- Aaron Rodgers, American football player (born 1983)
- Britney Spears, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (born 1981)
- Learner Tien, American tennis player (born 2005)
- Monica Seles, Serbian-American tennis player (born 1973)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2011 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '2011 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- February 27 – The 83rd Academy Awards, hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway, are held at Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Tom Hooper's The King's Speech wins four awards out of 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director.
- March 11 – Following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issues a tsunami warning to parts of the U.S. West Coast along the affected coastal areas in Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. Territories in the Pacific Ocean.
- April 15 – Rio is released in theaters.
Life in the US in 2011
President
Barack Obama
Gas (per gallon)
$3.52
Loaf of Bread
$1.74
Average House
$242,300
Weekly Wage
$737
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