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December 1 is the 335th day of the year (336th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 30 days remaining until the end of the year.

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, thus ending a 60 year period 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.
• 1821 – The first constitution of Costa Rica is issued.
• 1822 – Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
• 1824 – U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate had 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.
• 1864 – 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.
• 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).
• 1918 – 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 – 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 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.
• 1961 – The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1982 – At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
• 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• 1989 – The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d' etat.
• 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.
• 1998 – Exxon announces a $73.7 billion USD deal to buy Mobil, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the world's largest company.
• 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.

Births

• 1081 – Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
• 1083 – Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian (d. 1153)
• 1521 – Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
• 1525 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. 1600)
• 1580 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637)
• 1690 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1764)
• 1716 – Etienne-Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791)
• 1743 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (d. 1817)
• 1761 – Marie Tussaud, French creator of wax sculptures (Madame Tussauds) (d. 1850)
• 1766 – Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (d. 1826)
• 1792 – Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1856)
• 1844 – Alexandra of Denmark, Danish Queen Consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1925)
• 1847 – Julia Ann Moore, American poet (d. 1920)
• 1869 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (d. 1923)
• 1873 – Valery Bryusov, Russian poet (d. 1924)
• 1884 – Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (d. 1976)
• 1886 – Rex Stout, American author (d. 1975)
• 1895 – Henry Williamson, English author (d. 1977)
• 1896 – Georgy Zhukov, Russian general & Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1974)
• 1898 – Stuart Sinclair Garson, Canadian Premier of Manitoba (d. 1977)
• 1901 – Ilona Feher, Hungarian-Jewish violinist (d. 1988)
• 1905 – Alexander Wilson, Canadian and Notre Dame athlete (d. 1994)
• 1908 – Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (d. 1984)
• 1910 – Alicia Markova, English ballerina (d. 2004)
• 1911 – Walter Alston, American baseball manager (d. 1984)
• 1911 – Calvin Griffith, Canadian-born baseball executive (d. 1999)
• 1912 – Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Mary Martin, American actor and singer (d. 1990)
• 1916 – Wan Li, Chinese government official
• 1917 – Marty Marion, American baseball player and manager
• 1917 – Thomas Hayward, American tenor (d.1995)
• 1922 – Vsevolod Bobrov, Soviet ice hockey player (d. 1979)
• 1922 – Paul Picerni, American actor
• 1923 – Stansfield Turner, American admiral and CIA director
• 1923 – Morris, Belgian cartoonist (Lucky Luke) (d. 2001)
• 1925 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
• 1926 – Robert Symonds, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1926 – Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, Scottish noble
• 1928 – Emily McLaughlin, American actress (d. 1991)
• 1930 – Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d. 2002)
• 1931 – Jimmy Lyons, American musician (d. 1986)
• 1931 – Jim Nesbitt, singer (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Matt Monro, English singer (d. 1985)
• 1933 – Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoon artist (d. 1996)
• 1933 – Lou Rawls, American singer (d. 2006)
• 1934 – Billy Paul, American singer
• 1935 – Woody Allen, American film director, actor, and comedian
• 1937 – Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American mezzo-soprano (d. 2005)
• 1937 – Chuck Low, American actor
• 1937 – Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, 6th President of Latvia
• 1938 – Sandy Nelson, American drummer
• 1939 – Lee Trevino, American golfer
• 1940 – Richard Pryor, American actor, comedian (d. 2005)
• 1942 – John Crowley, American author
• 1944 – Pierre Arditi, French film and stage actor
• 1944 – Eric Bloom, American musician (Blue Öyster Cult)
• 1944 – John Densmore, American drummer (The Doors)
• 1944 – Tahar Ben Jelloun, French writer of Moroccan origin
• 1944 – Daniel Pennac, French writer born in Morocco
• 1944 – Michael W. Hagee, 33rd Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
• 1945 – Bette Midler, American actress and singer
• 1946 – Gilbert O'Sullivan, Irish singer
• 1947 – Alain Bashung, French singer
• 1947 – Bob Fulton, English-born Australian rugby league footballer
• 1948 – George Foster, American baseball player
• 1948 – Tom Wright, English bishop and theologian
• 1949 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (d. 1993)
• 1949 – Sebastián Piñera, Chilean businessman and elect President of Chile in 2010
• 1950 – Keith Thibodeaux, American actor and drummer
• 1951 – Obba Babatundé, American actor
• 1951 – Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (d. 1987)
• 1951 – Treat Williams, American actor
• 1954 – Bob Goen, American television host
• 1954 – Annette Haven, American pornographic actress
• 1955 – Verónica Forqué, Spanish actress
• 1955 – Pat Spillane, Gaelic footballer
• 1955 – Mark Thompson, American disc jockey and actor
• 1956 – Julee Cruise, American singer and actress
• 1957 – Chris Poland, American guitarist (Megadeth)
• 1958 – Javier Aguirre, Mexican footballer and coach
• 1958 – Charlene Tilton, American actress
• 1959 – Billy Childish, English painter, writer and musician
• 1959 – Wally Lewis, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1960 – Carol Alt, American supermodel
• 1960 – Jane Turner, Australian actress/comedian
• 1961 – Jeremy Northam, English actor
• 1961 – Armin Meiwes, German cannibal
• 1962 – Sylvie Daigle, Canadian speed skater
• 1962 – Joe Quesada, American comic book writer
• 1963 – Marco Greco, Brazilian racing driver
• 1963 – Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1963 – Nathalie Lambert, Canadian short track speed skater
• 1964 – Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer
• 1966 – Katherine LaNasa, American actress
• 1966 – Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player
• 1967 – Nestor Carbonell, American actor
• 1968 – Justin Chadwick, British actor and director
• 1970 – Jouko Ahola, Finnish strongman
• 1970 – Jonathan Coulton, American musician
• 1970 – Kirk Rueter, American baseball player
• 1970 – Sarah Silverman, American actress and comedian
• 1971 – Melanie Peres, Israeli singer , actress and model
• 1971 – Emily Mortimer, English actress
• 1971 – Stephanie Finochio, American professional wrestler
• 1971 – Mika Pohjola, Finnish jazz pianist and composer
• 1971 – Dolgorsürengiin Serjbüdee, Mongolian professional wrestler
• 1971 – Peter Van de Veire, Belgian radio-presenter
• 1971 – John Schlimm, American author
• 1972 – Norbert Wójtowicz, Polish historian and theologian
• 1973 – Jon Theodore, American musician
• 1973 – Steve Gibb, American musician (Black Label Society)
• 1974 – Costinha, Portuguese footballer
• 1974 – Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, American keyboardist (The Mars Volta)
• 1975 – Sophia Skou, Danish swimmer
• 1975 – Matt Fraction, American comic book writer
• 1976 – Laura Ling, American journalist
• 1977 – Brad Delson, American guitarist (Linkin Park)
• 1977 – Jared Fogle, American Subway spokesperson
• 1978 – Mat Kearney, American singer and songwriter
• 1979 – Ryan Malone, American hockey player
• 1979 – Angelique Bates, American actress
• 1980 – Mohammad Kaif, Indian cricketer
• 1981 – Luke McPharlin, Australian football player
• 1982 – Christos Melissis, Greek footballer
• 1982 – Lloyd Doyley, English footballer
• 1985 – Philip DeFranco, youtuber
• 1986 – DeSean Jackson, American football player
• 1988 – Zoe Kravitz, American actress
• 1990 – Tomáš Tatar, Slovak ice hockey player
• 2001 – Aiko, Princess Toshi, Japanese royalty

Deaths

• 1135 – Henry I of England
• 1241 – Isabella of England, wife of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1214)
• 1377 – King Magnus II of Sweden (b. 1316)
• 1433 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (b. 1377)
• 1455 – Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian artist and metal smith (b. 1378)
• 1521 – Pope Leo X (b. 1475)
• 1530 – Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (b. 1480)
• 1580 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)
• 1581 – Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (martyred) (b. 1540)
• 1581 – Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint (b. 1550)
• 1581 – Alexander Briant, English saint (b. 1556)
• 1602 – Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1582)
• 1633 – Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (b. 1566)
• 1660 – Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1592)
• 1707 – Jeremiah Clarke, English composer (b. 1674)
• 1709 – Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian preacher (b. 1644)
• 1723 – Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress (b. 1667)
• 1729 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (b. 1665)
• 1750 – Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)
• 1755 – Maurice Greene, English composer (b. 1696)
• 1767 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (b. 1710)
• 1825 – Tsar Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)
• 1830 – Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
• 1865 – Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (b. 1796)
• 1866 – George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest (b. 1790)
• 1884 – William Swainson (lawyer), second, and last, Attorney-General (New Zealand) of the Crown Colony of New Zealand (b. 1809)
• 1916 – Charles de Foucauld, French religious leader (b. 1858)
• 1923 – Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (b. 1836)
• 1928 – José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)
• 1934 – Sergei Kirov, Russian revolutionary (b. 1886)
• 1943 – Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (b. 1862)
• 1947 – Aleister Crowley, English occultist (b. 1875)
• 1947 – G. H. Hardy, English mathematician (b. 1877)
• 1950 – E. J. Moeran, English composer (b. 1894)
• 1954 – Fred Rose, American songwriter and music publishing executive (b. 1897)
• 1964 – J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (b. 1892)
• 1968 – Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer (baritone) and composer born in Transylvania (b. 1887)
• 1968 – Dario Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer (b. 1921)
• 1969 – Magic Sam, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1937)
• 1973 – David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
• 1975 – Nellie Fox, American baseball player (b. 1927)
• 1975 – Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality (b. 1906)
• 1984 – Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Lee Dorsey, American R&B singer (b. 1924)
• 1986 – Frank McCarthy, American producer (b. 1912)
• 1987 – James Baldwin, American writer (b. 1924)
• 1987 – Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager (b. 1918)
• 1989 – Alvin Ailey, American dancer, choreographer (b. 1931)
• 1991 – George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1911)
• 1996 – Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1928)
• 1997 – Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Michel Bélanger, French Canadian businessman and banker (b. 1929)
• 1997 – Endicott Peabody, 62^nd Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Freddie Young, British cinematographer (b. 1902)
• 2001 – Ellis R Dungan, American born Indian film director (b. 1909)
• 2002 – Dave McNally, American baseball player (b. 1942)
• 2003 – Clark Kerr, first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (b. 1911)
• 2003 – Eugenio Monti, Italian bobsledder (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Gust Avrakotos, American intelligence case officer (b. 1938)
• 2005 – Mary Hayley Bell, English dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
• 2006 – Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist (McGill University) (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Anton Rodgers, British actor (b. 1933)
• 2008 – Mikel Laboa, Basque singer and songwriter (b. 1934)
• 2008 – Joseph B. Wirthlin, religious leader, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, businessman (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Paul Benedict, American actor (b. 1938)
• 2009 – Gustavo Adolfo Palma, Guatemalan singer (b. 1920)

Holidays and observances

• World AIDS Day
• Costa Rica – Military Abolition Day
• Romania – National Day of Romania (Union Day)
• Ancient Latvia – Barbes Diena observed
• Feast day of St Castritian
• Feast day of St Eligius
• Feast day of Nicholas Ferrar (Episcopal Church (United States))
• Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia
• Portugal – Restoration of Independence (1640)
• Advent begins (traditionally)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2003

For myself, I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else. ~ Winston Churchill

• selected by Kalki

2004

Ooh, with a little luck — December will be magic again. ~ Kate Bush

• selected by Kalki

2005

The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter... if it turns about that there is a God, I don't think that he is evil. I think that the worst thing you could say is that he is, basically, an under-achiever. ~ Woody Allen (born 1 December 1935)

• proposed by Kalki

2006

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. ~ Woody Allen

• proposed by Kalki

2007

December will be magic again.
Don't miss the brightest star.
Kiss under mistletoe.
I want to hear you laugh.
Don't let the mystery go now.
~ Kate Bush ~

• proposed by Kalki

2008

There's an old joke... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life — full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness — and it's all over much too quickly. ~ Woody Allen

• proposed by UDScott

2009

The AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide. ~ Susan Sontag (anniversary of World AIDS Day)

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2010 

Rank or add further suggestions…

Ranking system:

4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.

3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.

2 : Good - some desire to see it used.

1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.

0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

Suggestions

If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert. ~ David Ben-Gurion (date of death)

• 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 09:28, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 18:27, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Zarbon 15:17, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. ~ Andre Breton

—This unsigned comment is by 123.201.89.84 (talk • contribs) .

• 2 Kalki 21:23, 20 December 2007 (UTC) Good quote, but no clear relation to the date; it would be better on a birthday, but might be usable here if there's ever a shortage of date-related quotes.
• 1 Zarbon 15:17, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. ~ Terry Pratchett

—This unsigned comment is by 123.201.89.84 (talk • contribs) .

• 2 Kalki 21:23, 20 December 2007 (UTC) Another good quote, but no clear relation to the date.
• 2 Zarbon 15:17, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
• 1 76.0.79.210 02:48, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

If the nation only knew their hands dripped with innocent blood, it would have met them not with applause but with stones. ~ Georgy Zhukov (born December 1)

• 4 because hell hath no fury like that of a scorned nation. Zarbon 04:11, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
  • SOURCE: A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia - Page 3 by Alexander N. Yakovlev, Anthony Austin - Political Science - 2002
• 1 Kalki 00:08, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Antiquary 17:44, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 19:08, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use. ~ Georgy Zhukov (born December 1)

• 3 Zarbon 02:47, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:08, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Antiquary 17:44, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 19:08, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

I really feel pressure to create something that is as strong as possible.The war has really swept away eveything from the past. ~ Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

• 2 Zarbon 03:32, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 00:08, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Is your mind so big that it can encompass galaxies or is the universe little enough to fit in one's head? ~ John Crowley

• 2 Zarbon 03:32, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Note: This is a paraphrase. I have corrected the author article. Ningauble 16:57, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

• 3 Kalki 00:08, 29 November 2008 (UTC) — originally ranked for the first suggestion, but ranking remains the same for the corrected version added to the author's page by Ninguable:

She wondered whether her head were so big as to be able to contain all this starry universe, or whether the universe were so little that it would fit within the compass of her human head. She alternated between these feelings, expanding and diminishing.

Seasons don't fear the reaper, nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain. ~Eric Bloom, singer and songwriter of Blue Öyster Cult

• 3 Lyle 20:31, 10 December 2008 (UTC) * 0 I misattributed these lyrics. Lyle 14:56, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on December 1.

From Wikia Gaming, your source for walkthroughs, games, guides, and more!

Game releases

• 2002
  • Street Fighter Alpha III for the Game Boy Advance in North America

• 2000
  • Mickey's Speedway USA release on the Nintendo 64 in Europe
  • Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits Volume 1 release on the Nintendo 64 in Europe

• 1999
  • Jet Force Gemini was released in Japan for the Nintendo 64

• 1998
  • Golden Nugget 64 was released for the Nintendo 64

Events

• 1993
  • Unlimited Edition, the Magic: The Gathering card set was released.
• 1971
  • Yuri Lowenthal, a video game voice actor was born.

From Familypedia

December 1 is the 335th day of the year (336th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 30 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
• 1167 - The Lombard League is formed in northern Italy.
• 1420 - Henry V of England enters Paris.
• 1640 - Portugal regains its independence from Spain and João IV of Portugal becomes king.
• 1768 - The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
• 1821 - The first constitution of Costa Rica is issued.
• 1822 - Peter I is crowned as Emperor of Brazil.
• 1824 - U.S. presidential election: 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 to decide the winner (as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution).
• 1826 - French philhellene Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.
• 1835 - Hans Christian Andersen publishes first book of fairy tales
• 1860 - Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in his magazine All the Year Round.
• 1864 - 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.
• 1867 - Johannes Brahms presents his Ein deutsches Requiem in Austria.
• 1884 - American Old West - Near Frisco, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting Charles McCarthy.
• 1913 - 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 - 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).
• 1918 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
• 1919 - Lady Astor becomes first female member of the British Parliament to take her seat (she had been elected to that position on November 28). National Council of Romanians in Banat voted union with the Kingdom of Romania. National Council of Romanians in Transylvania voted union with the Kingdom of Romania.
• 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 at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad by Leonid Nikolayev.
• 1941 - World War II: Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signed Administrative Order 9 creating the Civil Air Patrol.
• 1952 - The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation.
• 1955 - American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give 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 - Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
• 1958 - Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago, Illinois kills 92 children and three nuns.
• 1959 - Cold War: Antarctic Treaty signed , which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent.
• 1961 - The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.
• 1963 - Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India.
• 1964 - Vietnam War: US 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.
• 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.
• 1971 - Indian Army occupies part of Kashmir.
• 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.
• 1981 - A Yugoslavian Inex Adria Aviopromet DC-9 crashes in Corsica killing all 180 people on-board.
• 1982 - At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
• 1982 - Michael Jackson releases his second solo album Thriller, which became the biggest selling album of all time.
• 1987 - NASA announces the names of four companies who were awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom.
• 1988 - Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• 1989 - Right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed forces Movement (RAM) attempt to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino by a bloody coup attempt.
• 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 meters beneath the seabed.
• 1991 - Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1997 – Heath High School shooting: Michael Carneal opens fire on a group of his fellow students at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky, killing three and wounding five.
• 1998 - Exxon announces a US$73.7 billion deal to buy Mobil, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the largest company on the planet.
• 2001 - Trans World Airlines flies its last flight, after being bought by American Airlines.

Births

• 1081 - Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
• 1083 - Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian (d. 1153)
• 1521 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
• 1525 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. 1600)
• 1580 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637)
• 1690 - Philip Yorke, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1764)
• 1716 - Etienne-Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791)
• 1743 - Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (d. 1817)
• 1761 - Marie Tussaud, French creator of wax sculptures (Madame Tussauds) (d. 1850)
• 1766 - Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (d. 1826)
• 1792 - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1856)
• 1844 - Alexandra of Denmark, Danish Queen Consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1925)
• 1869 - Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (d. 1923)
• 1873 - Valery Bryusov, Russian poet (d. 1924)
• 1884 - Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (d. 1976)
• 1886 - Rex Stout, American author (d. 1975)
• 1895 - Henry Williamson, English author (d. 1977)
• 1896 - Georgy Zhukov, Russian general & Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1974)
• 1901 - Ilona Feher, Hungarian-Jewish violinist (d. 1988)
• 1905 - Alexander Wilson, Canadian and Notre Dame athlete (d. 1994)
• 1908 - Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (d. 1984)
• 1910 - Alicia Markova, English ballerina (d. 2004)
• 1911 - Walter Alston, American baseball manager (d. 1984)
• 1911 - Calvin Griffith, Canadian-born baseball executive (d. 1999)
• 1912 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (d. 1986)
• 1913 - Mary Martin, American actor and singer (d. 1990)
• 1917 - Marty Marion, American baseball player and manager
• 1922 - Vsevolod Bobrov, Soviet ice hockey player (d. 1979)
• 1922 - Paul Picerni, American actor
• 1923 - Stansfield Turner, American admiral and CIA director
• 1923 - Morris, Belgian cartoonist (Lucky Luke) (d. 2001)
• 1925 - Martin Rodbell, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
• 1926 - Robert Symonds, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1928 - Emily McLaughlin, American actress (d. 1991)
• 1930 - Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d. 2002)
• 1931 - Jimmy Lyons, American musician (d. 1986)
• 1931 - Jim Nesbitt, singer
• 1932 - Matt Monro, English singer (d. 1985)
• 1933 - Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoon artist (d. 1996)
• 1934 - Billy Paul, American singer
• 1935 - Woody Allen, American film director, actor, and comedian
• 1935 - Lou Rawls, American singer (d. 2006)
• 1937 - Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American mezzo-soprano (d. 2005)
• 1937 - Chuck Low, American actor
• 1938 - Sandy Nelson, American drummer
• 1939 - Lee Trevino, American golfer
• 1940 - Richard Pryor, American actor, comedian (d. 2005)
• 1942 - John Crowley, American author
• 1944 - Pierre Arditi, French film and stage actor
• 1944 - Eric Bloom, American musician (Blue Öyster Cult)
• 1944 - John Densmore, American drummer (The Doors)
• 1944 - Tahar Ben Jelloun, French writer of Moroccan origin
• 1944 - Daniel Pennac, French writer born in Morocco
• 1945 - Bette Midler, American actress
• 1946 - Gilbert O'Sullivan, Irish singer
• 1947 - Alain Bashung, French singer
• 1948 - George Foster, American baseball player
• 1948 - Tom Wright, English bishop and theologian
• 1949 - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (d. 1993)
• 1949 - Sebastián Piñera, Chilean businessman and presidential candidate
• 1950 - Keith Thibodeaux, American actor and drummer
• 1951 - Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (d. 1987)
• 1954 - Bob Goen, American television host
• 1954 - Annette Haven, American porn star
• 1955 - Mark Thompson, American disc jockey and actor
• 1955 - Veronica Forqué, Spanish actress
• 1958 - Javier Aguirre, Mexican footballer and coach
• 1959 - Billy Childish, English painter, writer and musician
• 1959 - Wally Lewis, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1960 - Carol Alt, American supermodel
• 1961 - Jeremy Northam, English actor
• 1961 - Armin Meiwes, German cannibal
• 1962 - Sylvie Daigle, Canadian speed skater
• 1962 - Joe Quesada, American comic book writer and artist, and editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics
• 1963 - Marco Greco, Brazilian racing driver
• 1963 - Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1963 - Nathalie Lambert, Quebec short track speed skater
• 1966 - Katherine LaNasa, American actress
• 1966 - Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player
• 1967 - Nestor Carbonell, American actor
• 1970 - Jouko Ahola, Finnish strongman
• 1970 - Kirk Rueter, American baseball player
• 1970 - Sarah Silverman, American actress and comedian
• 1971 - Emily Mortimer, English actress
• 1971 - Stephanie Finochio, American professional wrestler
• 1971 - Mika Pohjola, Finnish jazz pianist and composer
• 1971 - Dolgorsuren Serjbudee, Mongolian professional wrestler
• 1971 - Peter Van de Veire, Belgian radio-presenter
• 1972 - Norbert Wójtowicz, Polish historian and theologian
• 1973 - Kate Rusby, English folk singer
• 1974 - Costinha, Portuguese footballer
• 1974 - David Ludwig, American composer
• 1975 - Sophia Skou, Danish swimmer
• 1976 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (d. 1998)
• 1977 - Brad Delson, American guitarist (Linkin Park)
• 1977 - Jared Fogle, American Subway spokesperson
• 1980 - Mohammad Kaif, Indian cricketer
• 1982 - Lloyd Doyley, English footballer
• 2001 - Aiko of Japan

Deaths

• 1135 - Henry I of England
• 1241 - Isabella of England, wife of Frederick II (b. 1214)
• 1377 - King Magnus II of Sweden (b. 1316)
• 1433 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (b. 1377)
• 1455 - Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian artist and metal smith (b. 1378)
• 1521 - Pope Leo X (b. 1475)
• 1530 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (b. 1480)
• 1580 - Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)
• 1581 - Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (martyred) (b. 1540)
• 1581 - Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint (b. 1550)
• 1581 - Alexander Briant, English saint (b. around 1556)
• 1602 - Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1582)
• 1633 - Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (b. 1566)
• 1660 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1592)
• 1707 - Jeremiah Clarke, English composer (b. 1674)
• 1709 - Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian preacher (b. 1644)
• 1723 - Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress
• 1729 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (b. 1665)
• 1750 - Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)
• 1755 - Maurice Greene, English composer (b. 1696)
• 1767 - Henry Erskine, British Freemason (b. 1710)
• 1825 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)
• 1830 - Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
• 1865 - Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (b. 1796)
• 1866 - George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest (d. 1790)
• 1916 - Charles de Foucauld, French relgious leader (b. 1858)
• 1923 - Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (b. 1836)
• 1928 - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)
• 1934 - Sergei Kirov, Russian revolutionary (b. 1886)
• 1943 - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (b. 1862)
• 1947 - Aleister Crowley, English occultist (b. 1875)
• 1947 - G. H. Hardy, English mathematician (b. 1877)
• 1950 - E. J. Moeran, English composer (b. 1894)
• 1954 - Fred Rose, American songwriter and music publishing executive (b. 1897)
• 1964 - J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (b. 1892)
• 1968 - Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer (baryton) and composer born in Transylvania (b. 1887)
• 1968 - Dario Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer (b. 1921)
• 1969 - Magic Sam, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1937)
• 1973 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
• 1975 - Nellie Fox, American baseball player (b. 1927)
• 1975 - Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality (b. 1906)
• 1986 - Lee Dorsey, American R&B singer (b. 1924)
• 1987 - James Baldwin, American writer (b. 1924)
• 1987 - Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager (b. 1918)
• 1989 - Alvin Ailey, American dancer, choreographer (b. 1931)
• 1991 - George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1911)
• 1996 - Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1928)
• 1997 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (b. 1908)
• 1997 - Michel Bélanger, French Canadian businessman and banker (b. 1929)
• 1998 - Freddie Young, British cinematographer (b. 1902)
• 2002 - Dave McNally, American baseball player (b. 1942)
• 2003 - Clark Kerr, first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (b. 1911)
• 2004 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
• 2006 - Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
• 2006 - Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist (McGill University) (b. 1937)

Holidays and observances

• World AIDS Day
• Portugal - Restoration of Independence Day
• Costa Rica - Military Abolition Day
• Ancient Latvia - Barbes Diena observed
• Feast day of St Eligius
• Romania - The National Day of Romania, Union of Transylvania with Romania
• Angola's Pioneers' Day
• Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia
• Australia - First day of Summer

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada