What happened on December 1? There are more than 270 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About December 1
December 1 is the 336th day of the year 2024. There are 30 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. This day falls under the 48th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Stone Park, Illinois 60165 sunrise will occur at 06:58 AM and sunset will occur at 04:22 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Sagittarius. The modern birthstone for this month is Turquoise while the mystical birthstone is Onyx.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 59 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For December 1
- 800Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
- 1420Henry V of England enters Paris.
- 1640End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 60 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the House of Habsburg (also called the Philippine Dynasty).
- 1768The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
- 1822Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
- 1824United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 1826French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.
- 1834Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
- 1862In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
- 1865Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- 1885First serving of the soft drink Dr Pepper at a drug store in Waco, Texas (United States).
- 1913Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
- 1913The Buenos Aires Subway, the first underground railway system in the southern hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
- 1913The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
- 1918The Kingdom of Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
- 1918The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
- 1918Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union.
- 1919Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom (she had been elected to that position on November 28).
- 1925World War I aftermath: The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements.
- 1934In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolayev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad.
- 1941Pacific War: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gave the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
- 1941World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
- 1948Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, Australia; involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a very rare book, the case remains unsolved and is “one of Australia’s most profound mysteries”.
- 1952The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgenson, the first notable case of sexual reassignment surgery.
- 1955American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city’s racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 1958The Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
- 1958The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago, Illinois, kills 92 children and three nuns.
- 1959Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
- 1960Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
- 1963Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India.
- 1964Malawi, Malta and Zambia join the United Nations.
- 1964Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
- 1965The Border Security Force is formed in India as a special force to guard the borders.
- 1966The first Gävle goat, an annual Swedish Yule Goat tradition, is first erected in Gävle.
- 1969The first legislation to limit aircraft noise levels at airports is introduced in U.S. Federal Air Regulation, Part 36.
- 1969Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
- 1971Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
- 1971The Indian Army recaptures part of Kashmir occupied forcibly by Pakistan.
- 1973Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia.
- 1974Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
- 1974TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport killing all 92 people on board.
- 1975Lambda Theta Phi - The first Latino fraternity is established in New Jersey.
- 1976Angola joins the United Nations.
- 1981A Yugoslavian Inex Adria Aviopromet DC-9 crashes in Corsica killing all 180 people on board.
- 1981The AIDS virus is officially recognized.
- 1984NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner was deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of airplane crashes.
- 1988Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.
- 19891989 Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état.
- 1989Cold War: East Germany’s parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the communist party the leading role in the state.
- 1990Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.
- 1991Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
- 2001Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA’s purchase by American Airlines.
- 2009The Treaty of Lisbon, which amends the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, which together comprise the constitutional basis of European Union, comes into effect.
Who Were Born On December 1?
- 1081Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
- 1083Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian (d. 1153)
- 1521Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
- 1525Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. 1600)
- 1580Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637)
- 1690Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1764)
- 1716Etienne-Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791)
- 1743Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (d. 1817)
- 1761Marie Tussaud, French creator of wax sculptures (Madame Tussauds) (d. 1850)
- 1766Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (d. 1826)
- 1792Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1856)
- 1844Alexandra of Denmark, Danish Queen Consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1925)
- 1847Julia Ann Moore, American poet (d. 1920)
- 1869Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (d. 1923)
- 1873Valery Bryusov, Russian poet (d. 1924)
- 1884Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (d. 1976)
- 1886Rex Stout, American author (d. 1975)
- 1895Henry Williamson, English author (d. 1977)
- 1896Georgy Zhukov, Russian general & Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1974)
- 1898Stuart Sinclair Garson, Canadian Premier of Manitoba (d. 1977)
- 1901Ilona Feher, Hungarian-Jewish violinist (d. 1988)
- 1905Alex Wilson, Canadian athlete (d. 1994)
- 1908Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (d. 1984)
- 1910Alicia Markova, English ballerina (d. 2004)
- 1911Calvin Griffith, Canadian-born baseball executive (d. 1999)
- 1911Walter Alston, American baseball manager (d. 1984)
- 1912Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (d. 1986)
- 1913Mary Martin, American actor and singer (d. 1990)
- 1916Wan Li, Chinese government official
- 1917Marty Marion, American baseball player and manager (d.2011)
- 1917Thomas Hayward, American tenor (d.1995)
- 1922Paul Picerni, American actor (d. 2011)
- 1922Vsevolod Bobrov, Soviet ice hockey player (d. 1979)
- 1923Morris, Belgian cartoonist (Lucky Luke) (d. 2001)
- 1923Stansfield Turner, American admiral and 12th Director of Central Intelligence
- 1925Martin Rodbell, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
- 1926Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, Scottish noble (d. 2010)
- 1926Robert Symonds, American actor (d. 2007)
- 1928Emily McLaughlin, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1929David Doyle, American Actor (d. 1997)
- 1930Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d. 2002)
- 1930Matt Monro, English singer (d.1985)
- 1931Jim Nesbitt, singer (d. 2007)
- 1931Jimmy Lyons, American musician (d. 1986)
- 1933Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoon artist (d. 1996)
- 1933Lou Rawls, American singer (d. 2006)
- 1934Billy Paul, American singer
- 1935Woody Allen, American film director, actor, and comedian
- 1937Chuck Low, American actor
- 1937Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American mezzo-soprano (d. 2005)
- 1937Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, 6th President of Latvia
- 1938Sandy Nelson, American drummer
- 1939Lee Trevino, American golfer
- 1940Richard Pryor, American comic and actor (d. 2005)
- 1942John Crowley, American author
- 1944Daniel Pennac, French writer born in Morocco
- 1944Eric Bloom, American musician (Blue Öyster Cult)
- 1944John Densmore, American drummer (The Doors)
- 1944Michael W. Hagee, 33rd Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
- 1944Pierre Arditi, French film and stage actor
- 1944Tahar Ben Jelloun, French writer of Moroccan origin
- 1945Bette Midler, American actress and singer
- 1946Gilbert O'Sullivan, Irish singer
- 1947Alain Bashung, French singer (d.2009)
- 1947Bob Fulton, English-born Australian rugby league footballer
- 1948George Foster, American baseball player
- 1948Tom Wright, English bishop and theologian
- 1949Jan Brett, American author illustrator
- 1949Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (d. 1993)
- 1949Sebastián Piñera, Chilean businessman and politician
- 1950Filippos Petsalnikos, Greek politician
- 1950Keith Thibodeaux, American actor and drummer
- 1951Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (Weather Report)( d. 1987)
- 1951Obba Babatundé, American actor
- 1951Treat Williams, American actor
- 1954Annette Haven, American pornographic actress
- 1954Bob Goen, American television host
- 1955Mark Thompson, American disc jockey and actor
- 1955Pat Spillane, Gaelic footballer
- 1955Verónica Forqué, Spanish actress
- 1956Julee Cruise, American singer and actress
- 1957Chris Poland, American guitarist (Megadeth)
- 1958Charlene Tilton, American actress
- 1958Javier Aguirre, Mexican footballer and coach
- 1959Billy Childish, English painter, writer and musician
- 1959Wally Lewis, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1960Carol Alt, American supermodel
- 1960Jane Turner, Australian actress/comedian
- 1961Armin Meiwes, German cannibal
- 1961Jeremy Northam, English actor
- 1962Joe Quesada, American comic book writer
- 1962Sylvie Daigle, Canadian speed skater
- 1963Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1963Marco Greco, Brazilian racing driver
- 1963Nathalie Lambert, Canadian short track speed skater
- 1964Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer
- 1966Katherine LaNasa, American actress
- 1966Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player
- 1967Nestor Carbonell, American actor
- 1967Reggie Sanders, American baseball player
- 1968Anders Holmertz, Swedish swimmer
- 1968Justin Chadwick, British actor and director
- 1970Jonathan Coulton, American musician
- 1970Jouko Ahola, Finnish strongman
- 1970Kirk Rueter, American baseball player
- 1970Sarah Silverman, American actress and comedian
- 1971Dolgorsürengiin Serjbüdee, Mongolian professional wrestler
- 1971Emily Mortimer, English actress
- 1971John Schlimm, American author
- 1971Melanie Peres, Israeli singer, actress and model
- 1971Mika Pohjola, Finnish jazz pianist and composer
- 1971Peter Van de Veire, Belgian radio-presenter
- 1971Stephanie Finochio, American professional wrestler
- 1973Jon Theodore, American musician
- 1973Steve Gibb, American musician (Black Label Society)
- 1974Costinha, Portuguese footballer
- 1974Isaiah “Ikey” Owens, American keyboardist (The Mars Volta)
- 1975Matt Fraction, American comic book writer
- 1975Sophia Skou, Danish swimmer
- 1976Laura Ling, American journalist
- 1976Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (d. 1998)
- 1977Brad Delson, American guitarist (Linkin Park)
- 1977Jared Fogle, American spokesperson
- 1977Lee McKenzie, Scottish television presenter
- 1978Mat Kearney, American singer and songwriter
- 1979Angelique Bates, American actress
- 1979Ryan Malone, American hockey player
- 1980Mohammad Kaif, Indian cricketer
- 1980Roger Peterson, Aruban-Dutch musician
- 1981Luke McPharlin, Australian rules footballer
- 1982Christos Kalantzis, Greek footballer
- 1982Christos Melissis, Greek footballer
- 1982Lloyd Doyley, English footballer
- 1985Emiliano Viviano, Italian footballer
- 1985Janelle Monáe, American musician
- 1985John Coughlin, American figure skater
- 1986DeSean Jackson, American football player
- 1987Brett Williams, English footballer
- 1988Zoe Kravitz, American actress
- 1990Chanel Iman, American model.
- 1990Tomáš Tatar, Slovak ice hockey player
- 2001Aiko, Princess Toshi, Japanese royalty
Who Died On December 1?
- 1135Henry I of England
- 1241Isabella of England, wife of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1214)
- 1377King Magnus II of Sweden (b. 1316)
- 1433Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (b. 1377)
- 1455Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian artist and metal smith (b. 1378)
- 1521Pope Leo X (b. 1475)
- 1530Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (b. 1480)
- 1580Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)
- 1581Alexander Briant, English saint (b. 1556)
- 1581Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (b. 1540)
- 1581Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint (b. 1550)
- 1602Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese warlord (b. 1582)
- 1633Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (b. 1566)
- 1640Miguel de Vasconcelos, last Secretary of State of the Kingdom of Portugal, during the Iberian Union (b. c. 1590)
- 1660Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1592)
- 1707Jeremiah Clarke, English composer (b. 1674)
- 1709Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian preacher (b. 1644)
- 1723Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress (b. 1667)
- 1729Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (b. 1665)
- 1750Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)
- 1755Maurice Greene, English composer (b. 1696)
- 1767Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (b. 1710)
- 1825Tsar Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)
- 1830Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
- 1865Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (b. 1796)
- 1866George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest (b. 1790)
- 1884William Swainson, British attorney and Attorney General of New Zealand (b. 1809)
- 1916Charles de Foucauld, French religious figure (b. 1858)
- 1923Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (b. 1836)
- 1928José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)
- 1934Sergey Kirov, Russian revolutionary (b. 1886)
- 1943Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (b. 1862)
- 1947Aleister Crowley, English occultist (b. 1875)
- 1947G. H. Hardy, English mathematician (b. 1877)
- 1950E. J. Moeran, English composer (b. 1894)
- 1954Fred Rose, American songwriter and music publishing executive (b. 1897)
- 1964Charilaos Vasilakos, Greek athlete, the first man to win a marathon race (b. 1877)
- 1964J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (b. 1892)
- 1968Darío Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer (b. 1921)
- 1968Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer (b. 1887)
- 1969Magic Sam, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1937)
- 1973David Ben-Gurion, Israeli statesman (b. 1886)
- 1975Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (b. 1906)
- 1975Nellie Fox, American baseball player (b. 1927)
- 1984Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (b. 1911)
- 1986Frank McCarthy, American producer (b. 1912)
- 1986Lee Dorsey, American R&B singer (b. 1924)
- 1987James Baldwin, American writer (b. 1924)
- 1987Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager (b. 1918)
- 1989Alvin Ailey, American dancer, choreographer (b. 1931)
- 1991George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1911)
- 1993Ray Gillen, American rock singer (Badlands, Black Sabbath) (b. 1959)
- 1996Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1928)
- 1997Endicott Peabody, American politician (b. 1920)
- 1997Michel Bélanger, French Canadian businessman and banker (b. 1929)
- 1997Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (b. 1908)
- 1998Freddie Young, British cinematographer (b. 1902)
- 2001Ellis R Dungan, American-born Indian film director (b. 1909)
- 2002Dave McNally, American baseball player (b. 1942)
- 2003Clark Kerr, American academic (b. 1911)
- 2003Eugenio Monti, Italian bobsledder (b. 1928)
- 2004Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
- 2005Freeman V. Horner, United States Army officer (b. 1922)
- 2005Gust Avrakotos, American intelligence case officer (b. 1938)
- 2005Mary Hayley Bell, English dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills (b. 1911)
- 2006Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist (b. 1937)
- 2006Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
- 2007Anton Rodgers, British actor (b. 1933)
- 2008Joseph B. Wirthlin, American religious figure (b. 1917)
- 2008Mikel Laboa, Basque singer and songwriter (b. 1934)
- 2008Paul Benedict, American actor (b. 1938)
- 2009Gustavo Adolfo Palma, Guatemalan singer (b. 1920)
- 2010Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer (b. 1914)
- 2010Hillard Elkins, American theatre and film producer (b. 1929)
- 2011Christa Wolf, German writer (b. 1929)
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