12-01-2004, 06:24 AM
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December 1st
1083 ~ Birthday of Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian.
1640 ~ Portugal regained its independence from Spain.
1824 ~ U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the House of Representatives was given the task to decide the winner, as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment.
1835 ~ Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales.
1918 ~ The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
1935 ~ Birthday of Woody Allen, Film Director & Actor &Comedian.
1955 ~ American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white man and was arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws (Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr. later led the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott as a result).
1959 ~ Cold War: Antarctic Treaty signed - 12 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union, signed a treaty which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent. This was the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War.
1964 ~ Death of J. B. S. Haldane, British geneticist.
1990 ~ Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France met 40 meters beneath the English Channel seabed, establishing the first ground connection between the island of Great Britain and the mainland of Europe since the last ice age.
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