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.
- 1768 –The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
- 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.
- 1865 –Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- 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).
- 1941 –World 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.
- 1952 –The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgenson, the first notable case of sexual reassignment surgery.
- 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 Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago, Illinois, kills 92 children and three nuns.
- 1959 –Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
- 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.
- 1969 –The first legislation to limit aircraft noise levels at airports is introduced in U.S. Federal Air Regulation, Part 36.
- 1971 –Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
- 1981 –A Yugoslavian Inex Adria Aviopromet DC-9 crashes in Corsica killing all 180 people on board.
- 1981 –The AIDS virus is officially recognized.
- 1988 –Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.
- 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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