About December 1
December 1, 2023 is the 335th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 30 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 71 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 1
- 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.
- 1865 –Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- 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 Buenos Aires Subway, the first underground railway system in the southern hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
- 1934 –In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolayev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad.
- 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”.
- 1958 –The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago, Illinois, kills 92 children and three nuns.
- 1963 –Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India.
- 1966 –The first Gävle goat, an annual Swedish Yule Goat tradition, is first erected in Gävle.
- 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.
- 1981 –The AIDS virus is officially recognized.
- 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 –1989 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.
- 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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