On this day — December 2

California, warehouse serving as an artist collective.

Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik kill 14 people and wound 22 at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California.

STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

carrying the ASTRO-1 spacelab observatory.

becoming the first woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state.

a classified mission for the United States Department of Defense.

Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.

Four American missionaries are raped and murdered by a death squad.