Events
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.
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 – The Buenos
Aires Subway, the
first underground
railway system in
the southern hemisphere
and in Latin America,
begins operation.
1913 – The Ford Motor
Company introduces
the first moving assembly
line.
1913 – Crete, having
obtained self rule
from Turkey after
the First Balkan War,
is annexed by Greece.
1918 – Transylvania
unites with Romania,
following the incorporation
of Bessarabia (March
27) and Bukovina (November
28), thus concluding
the Great Union.
1918 – The Kingdom
of Iceland becomes
a sovereign state,
yet remains a part
of the Danish kingdom.
1918 – The Kingdom
of Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes (later known
as the Kingdom of
Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
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).
1925 – World War I
aftermath: The final
Locarno Treaty is
signed in London,
establishing post-war
territorial settlements.
1934 – In the Soviet
Union, Politburo member
Sergei Kirov is shot
dead by Leonid Nikolayev
at the Communist Party
headquarters in Leningrad.
1941 – Pacific War:
Emperor Hirohito of
Japan gave the final
approval to initiate
war against the United
States.
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.
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".
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 Central
African Republic becomes
independent from France.
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.
1960 – Paul McCartney
and Pete Best are
arrested then deported
from Hamburg, Germany,
after accusations
of attempted arson.
1963 – Nagaland becomes
the 16th state of
India.
1964 – Vietnam War:
U.S. President Lyndon
B. Johnson and his
top-ranking advisers
meet to discuss plans
to bomb North Vietnam.
1964 – Malawi, Malta
and Zambia join the
United Nations.
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 – Vietnam War:
The first draft lottery
in the United States
is held since World
War II.
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.
1971 – The Indian
Army recaptures part
of Kashmir occupied
forcibly by Pakistan.
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.
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 – A Yugoslavian
Inex Adria Aviopromet
DC-9 crashes in Corsica
killing all 180 people
on board.
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.
1988 – Benazir Bhutto
is appointed Prime
Minister of Pakistan.
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.
1989 – Cold War: East
Germany's parliament
abolishes the constitutional
provision granting
the communist party
the leading role in
the state.
1990 – Channel Tunnel
sections started from
the United Kingdom
and France meet 40
metres beneath the
seabed.
1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian
voters overwhelmingly
approve a referendum
for independence from
the Soviet Union.
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.
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.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Castritian
Eligius
Edmund Campion
Nicholas Ferrar (Episcopal
Church (United States))
December 1 (Eastern
Orthodox liturgics)
Damrong Rajanubhab
Day (Thailand)
Earliest day on which
Farmer's Day can fall,
while December 7 is
the latest; celebrated
on the first Friday
in December. (Ghana)
Earliest day on which
Good Neighborliness
Day can fall, while
December 7 is the
latest; celebrated
on the first Sunday
in December. (Turkmenistan)
Freedom and Democracy
Day (Chad)
Great Union Day, celebrates
the Union of Transylvania
with Romania in 1918;
since 1990, National
Day (Romania)
Military Abolition
Day (Costa Rica)
National Day (Burma)
National Transit Tribute
to Rosa Parks Day
(American Public Transportation
Association)
Republic Day (Central
African Republic)
Restoration of Independence
(Portugal)
Self-governance Day
or Fullveldisdagurinn
(Iceland)
Teacher's Day (Panama)
World AIDS Day (International)
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