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Movie events on the 2nd December
Samuel Taylor Coleridge enlists in the Light Dragoons. (Rime of the Ancient Mariner )
Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Napoleon I, the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. (Paris, France) (War and Peace)
Ilsa Lund and Victor Lazlo walk into Rick's saloon. (Casablanca) (Casablanca)
Fermi produces the first nuclear chain reaction. (University of Chicago) (Fat Man and Little Boy )
The U.S. Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Senator Joseph R. McCarthy for conduct unbecoming of a senator. (Washington, D.C.) (Citizen Cohn)
Fidel Castro openly declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist. (Che!)
Billy Elliot's mum dies. (Billy Elliot)
Enron files for bankruptcy. (Texas) (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room)