What is the Chinese zodiac sign for December 2, 1972?

In the Chinese zodiac, December 2, 1972 falls in the year of the Water Rat.

What is the birthstone for December?

The birthstone for December is turquoise.

What was the moon phase on December 2, 1972?

On December 2, 1972 the moon was a Waning Crescent.

A Saturday

Born on December 2, 1972?

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📅 Weekday
Saturday
♐ Star sign
Sagittarius
🐀 Chinese zodiac
Water Rat
🌘 Moon
Waning Crescent
🎂 Age today
53 years

Famous people born on December 2, 1972

Sergejs Žoltoks

Latvian professional ice hockey centre (1972–2004)

Nashwa Al-Ruwaini

Egyptian television presenter

Born the same week

Diego Ramos

November 29 · Argentine actor

Andreas Goldberger

November 29 · Austrian former ski jumper

Amadou Sanogo

November 30 · Malian military officer

Abel Xavier

November 30 · Portuguese-Mozambican association football player

What happened that day

1972 Australian federal election: The Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam defeats the Liberal/Country Coalition government led by Prime Minister William McMahon. Consequently, Whitlam becomes the first Labor Prime Minister of Australia since the defeat of Ben Chifley in 1949. Whitlam will be sworn in on December 5; his first action using executive power is to withdraw all Australian personnel from the Vietnam War. McMahon resigns from the Liberal leadership almost immediately; he will be replaced by outgoing Treasurer Billy Snedden.

Also that week

The "tea house" Mellow Yellow opens on the river Amstel in Amsterdam, pioneering the legal sale of cannabis in the Netherlands.
Atari in the United States release the production version of Pong, one of the first video games to achieve widespread popularity in both the arcade and home console markets, devised by Nolan Bushnell and Allan Alcorn.
The last executions in Paris, France. Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet – the Clairvaux Mutineers – are guillotined at La Santé Prison by chief executioner André Obrecht. Bontems, found not guilty of murder by the court, is condemned as Buffet's accomplice. President Georges Pompidou, in private an abolitionist, upholds both death sentences in deference to French public opinion.
Apollo 17 (Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans, Harrison Schmitt), the last crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit until the Artemis II lunar flyby in 2026, is launched to the Moon and The Blue Marble photograph of the Earth is taken. The mission also includes five mice.
Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines, is stabbed and seriously wounded by an assailant; her bodyguards shoot the assailant.

What happened that day

🎵 No. 1 song in the US

Papa Was A Rollin' Stone

The Temptations

🎵 No. 1 song

December 2, 1972 was a Saturday. Someone born on December 2, 1972 is a Sagittarius. Someone born on December 2, 1972 is 53 years old today and has lived about 19,696 days. People born in 1972 belong to Generation X.

Also born on December 2

Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Pedro II of Brazil
1825 · 2nd and final Emperor of Brazil (r. –89)
Georges Seurat
1859 · French painter
Georgy Zhukov
1896 · Marshal of the Soviet Union
Maria Meneghini Callas
1923 · American-Greek operatic soprano

Questions about December 2, 1972

What day of the week was December 2, 1972?: December 2, 1972 was a Saturday.
What star sign is someone born on December 2, 1972?: Someone born on December 2, 1972 is a Sagittarius.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for December 2, 1972?: In the Chinese zodiac, December 2, 1972 falls in the year of the Water Rat.
How old is someone born on December 2, 1972?: Someone born on December 2, 1972 is 53 years old today and has lived about 19,696 days.
Which generation is someone born in 1972?: People born in 1972 belong to Generation X.
What is the birthstone for December?: The birthstone for December is turquoise.
What was the moon phase on December 2, 1972?: On December 2, 1972 the moon was a Waning Crescent.

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