On this day December 1st

 OTD 

December 1st is the three hundredth thirty-third day of the year, and there are 30 days remaining until the end of the year.

 Events

800 – A council is convened in the Vatican, at which Charlemagne is to judge the accusations against Pope Leo III.

1662 – Diarist John Evelyn records skating on the frozen lake in St James's Park, London, watched by Charles II and Queen Catherine.

1824 – United States presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the electoral college votes, the United States House of Representatives is tasked with deciding the winner under the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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.

1878 – President Rutherford B. Hayes gets the first telephone installed in the White House.

1913 – Crete, having obtained self-rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.

1924 – The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played its first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.

1973 – Papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia.

2011 – The Alma-Ata Metro was opened.

 


Birthdays

1761 – Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor, founded Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (d. 1850)

1846 – Ledi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher (d. 1923)

1912 – Minoru Yamasaki, American architect, designed the World Trade Center (d. 1986)

1923 – Stansfield Turner, American admiral and academic, 12th Director of Central Intelligence (d. 2018)

1931 – Jimmy Lyons, American saxophonist (d. 1986)

1940 – Jerry Lawson, American electronic engineer and inventor (d. 2011)

1940 – Richard Pryor, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2005)

1970 – Golden Brooks, American actress

1988 – Zoë Kravitz, American actress, singer, and model

 

 Holiday Highlight

 ROSA PARKS DAY

Rosa Parks Day honors the achievements of the courageous African American activist known as “The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.” Celebrated on December 1—commemorating the day she refused to give up her bus seat in 1955—it is also observed on February 4, her birthday, in some regions like Ohio and Oregon.


Parks’ defiance sparked a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus system, challenging racial segregation laws known as "Jim Crow" laws. Her arrest for refusing to give up her seat led Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists to join the protest. The boycott ultimately resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in December 1956 that declared segregation laws unconstitutional. 


Parks became a symbol of the fight for equality, and the bus she was on has been restored and is displayed at the Henry Ford Museum.

 

Holidays And Observance 

Advent Sunday – De 

Antarctica Day 

Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day 

Civil Air Patrol (USAF Auxiliary) Birthday 

Day With(out) Art Day 

Eat a Red Apple Day 

National Christmas Lights Day 

National Pie Day 

Rosa Parks Day - (States of Ohio / Oregon)

Small Brewery Sunday  

Wear a Dress Day 

World AIDS Day

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