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This day in history: 1 December

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Key facts

402 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 1 December.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2020: The Arecibo Telescope collapses.

Holidays and observances

Battle of the Sinop Day (Russia)

Christian feast day: Alexander Briant

Christian feast day: Ansanus

Christian feast day: Blessed Bruna Pellesi

Christian feast day: Castritian

Christian feast day: Charles de Foucauld

Christian feast day: December 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Edmund Campion

Christian feast day: Eligius

Christian feast day: Evasius

Christian feast day: Grwst

Christian feast day: Nahum

Events

2020The Arecibo Telescope collapses.

2019Arsenal Women 11–1 Bristol City Women breaks the record for most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match, with Vivianne Miedema involved in ten of the eleven Arsenal goals.

2019The outbreak of coronavirus infection begins in Wuhan.

2018The Oulu Police informed the public about the first offence of the much larger child sexual exploitation in Oulu, Finland.

2011The Alma-Ata Metro was opened.

2009The Treaty of Lisbon entered into force in the European Union.

2006The law on same-sex marriage comes into force in South Africa, legalizing same-sex marriage for the first time on the African continent.

2005As a result of the merger of the Perm Oblast and the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug, a new subject of the Russian Federation, the Perm Krai, was created.

2001The United Russia political party was founded.

2000Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.

1997Fourteen-year-old Michael Carneal opens fire at a group of students in Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky, killing three and injuring five.

1997In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacks the CPI (ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.

1991Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.

1990Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet beneath the seabed.

1989Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state.

1989Philippine 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.

1988Benazir Bhutto, is named as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first female leader to lead a Muslim nation.

1988World AIDS Day is proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states.

1984NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.

1981Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.

1974Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.

1974TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.

1973Papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia.

1971Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.

1971Purge of Croatian Spring leaders starts in Yugoslavia at the meeting of the League of Communists at the Karađorđevo estate.

1969Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

1964Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.

1963Nagaland, became the 16th state of India.

1960Patrice Lumumba is arrested by Mobutu Sese Seko's men on the banks of the Sankuru River, for inciting the army to rebellion.

1959Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.

1958The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.

1958The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.

1955American 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 that city's bus boycot

1952The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.

1941World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives his tacit approval to the decision of the imperial council to initiate war against the United States.

1941World 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.

1939The Soviet Union establishes the Finnish Democratic Republic puppet state in Terijoki.

1939World War II: A day after the beginning of the Winter War in Finland, the Cajander III Cabinet resigns and is replaced by the Ryti I Cabinet, while the Finnish Parliament move from Helsinki to Kauhajoki to escape the Soviet airstrikes.

1934Sergei Kirov is assassinated, paving way for the repressive Great Purge, and Vinnytsia massacre by General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin.

1924A Soviet-backed communist 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt fails in Estonia.

Born on this day

2008Ella Gross, American singer, model and actress

2003Robert Irwin, Australian conservationist and television personality

2001Carole Monnet, French tennis player

1999Lloyd Pope, Australian cricketer

1999Nico Schlotterbeck, German footballer

1997Jung Chae-yeon, South Korean actress and singer

1997Sada Williams, Barbadian sprinter

1995Agnė Čepelytė, Lithuanian tennis player

1995James Wilson, English footballer

1995Jenna Fife, Scottish footballer

1994Seedy Njie, English footballer

1993Beau Webster, Australian cricketer

1992Gary Payton II, American basketball player

1992Javier Báez, Puerto Rican baseball player

1992Linos Chrysikopoulos, Greek basketball player

1992Marco van Ginkel, Dutch footballer

1992Masahudu Alhassan, Ghanaian footballer

1991Hilda Melander, Swedish tennis player

1991Rakeem Christmas, American basketball player

1991Sun Yang, Chinese swimmer

1990Tomáš Tatar, Slovak ice hockey player

1989Sotelúm, Mexican trumpet player, composer, and producer

1988Dan Mavraides, Greek-American basketball player

1988Michael Raffl, Austrian ice hockey player

1988Tyler Joseph, American musician and singer

1988Zoë Kravitz, American actress, singer, and model

1987Tabarie Henry, Virgin Islander sprinter

1987Vance Joy, Australian singer-songwriter

1986DeSean Jackson, American football player

1985Emiliano Viviano, Italian footballer

1985Ilfenesh Hadera, American actress

1985Janelle Monáe, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

1985Philip DeFranco, American media host and YouTube personality

1984Charles Michael Davis, American actor

1984Yolandi Visser, South African rapper and actress

1982Christos Kalantzis, Greek footballer

1982Christos Melissis, Greek footballer

1982Riz Ahmed, English actor and rapper

1981I Made Wirawan, Indonesian footballer

1981Park Hyo-shin, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor

Died on this day

2024Ian Redpath, Australian cricketer and coach (born 1941)

2024Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player and coach (born 1947)

2023Sandra Day O'Connor, first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1981–2006) (born 1930)

2022Gaylord Perry, American baseball player and coach (born 1938)

2020Arnie Robinson, American athlete (born 1948)

2019Paula Tilbrook, English actress (born 1930)

2018Ken Berry, American actor, dancer, and singer (born 1933)

2018Vivian Lynn, New Zealand artist (born 1931)

2015Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (born 1930)

2015Joseph Engelberger, American physicist and engineer (born 1925)

2015Rob Blokzijl, Dutch physicist and computer scientist (born 1943)

2015Trevor Obst, Australian footballer and coach (born 1940)

2014Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Greek epidemiologist, oncologist, and academic (born 1938)

2014Mario Abramovich, Argentinian violinist and composer (born 1926)

2014Rocky Wood, New Zealand-Australian author (born 1959)

2013Edward Heffron, American soldier (born 1923)

2013Martin Sharp, Australian cartoonist and songwriter (born 1942)

2013Richard Coughlan, English drummer (born 1947)

2013Stirling Colgate, American physicist and academic (born 1925)

2012Arthur Chaskalson, South African lawyer and judge, 18th Chief Justice of South Africa (born 1931)

2012Ed Price, American soldier, pilot, and politician (born 1918)

2012Israel Keyes, American serial killer (born 1978)

2012Jovan Belcher, American football player (born 1987)

2012Rick Majerus, American basketball player and coach (born 1948)

2011Christa Wolf, German author and critic (born 1929)

2010Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer and academic (born 1914)

2010Hillard Elkins, American actor and producer (born 1929)

2008Joseph B. Wirthlin, American businessman and religious leader (born 1917)

2008Paul Benedict, American actor (born 1938)

2007Anton Rodgers, British actor (born 1933)

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