About December 1
December 1, 2024 is the 336th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 30 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 59 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 1
- 800 –Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
- 1420 –Henry V of England enters Paris.
- 1640 –End 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).
- 1768 –The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
- 1822 –Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
- 1824 –United 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.
- 1826 –French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.
- 1834 –Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
- 1862 –In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
- 1885 –First serving of the soft drink Dr Pepper at a drug store in Waco, Texas (United States).
- 1913 –Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
- 1913 –The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
- 1941 –Pacific War: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gave the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
- 1955 –American 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.
- 1958 –The Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
- 1966 –The first Gävle goat, an annual Swedish Yule Goat tradition, is first erected in Gävle.
- 1975 –Lambda Theta Phi - The first Latino fraternity is established in New Jersey.
- 1984 –NASA 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.
- 1989 –Cold War: East Germany’s parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the communist party the leading role in the state.
- 2009 –The 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.
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