About December 1

December 1, 2025 is the 335th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 30 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

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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 78 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On December 1

  • 1420 –
    Henry V of England enters Paris.
  • 1768 –
    The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
  • 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).
  • 1918 –
    The Kingdom of Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
  • 1918 –
    Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union.
  • 1919 –
    Lady 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).
  • 1934 –
    In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolayev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad.
  • 1958 –
    The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago, Illinois, kills 92 children and three nuns.
  • 1964 –
    Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
  • 1965 –
    The Border Security Force is formed in India as a special force to guard the borders.
  • 1966 –
    The first Gävle goat, an annual Swedish Yule Goat tradition, is first erected in Gävle.
  • 1973 –
    Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia.
  • 1974 –
    Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
  • 1975 –
    Lambda Theta Phi - The first Latino fraternity is established in New Jersey.
  • 1976 –
    Angola joins the United Nations.
  • 1981 –
    The AIDS virus is officially recognized.
  • 1990 –
    Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.
  • 2001 –
    Captain 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.

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