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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 1918 –The Kingdom of Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
- 1941 –Pacific War: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gave the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
- 1948 –Taman 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”.
- 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.
- 1960 –Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
- 1964 –Malawi, Malta and Zambia join the United Nations.
- 1969 –The first legislation to limit aircraft noise levels at airports is introduced in U.S. Federal Air Regulation, Part 36.
- 1969 –Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
- 1971 –Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
- 1973 –Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia.
- 1974 –TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport killing all 92 people on board.
- 1975 –Lambda Theta Phi - The first Latino fraternity is established in New Jersey.
- 1991 –Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
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