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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. This date is
slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years
each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a
Wednesday or Friday (56).
Contents [hide]
1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 References
6 External links
Events[edit]
800 Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
1420 Henry V of England enters Paris.
1577 Francis Walsingham is knighted.
1640 End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King Joo IV of Portugal,
ending 59 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end
of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty.
1768 The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromy 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.
1828 Argentine general Juan Lavalle makes a coup against governor Manuel Dorrego,
beginning the Decembrist revolution.
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.
1913 The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern
Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
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 Transylvania unites with the Kingdom of 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.)
1924 The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston
Bruins, played their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston
Arena indoor hockey facility.[1]
1934 In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is shot dead by Leonid
Nikolaev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad.
1941 World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives 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.
1952 The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first
notable case of sex 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 that city's bus
boycott.
1958 The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.
1958 The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago 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 (and later deported) from Hamburg,
Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
1964 Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers
meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
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.
1973 Papua New Guinea gains self-governance from Australia.
1974 TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International
Airport, killing all 92 people on board.
1974 Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of
John F. Kennedy International Airport.
1981 Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in
Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.
1984 NASA 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.
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'tat.
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.
1997 In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacked the CPI(ML) Party Unity
stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
Births[edit]
1081 Louis VI, French king (d. 1137)
1083 Anna Komnene, Byzantine physician and scholar (d. 1153)
1438 Peter II, Duke of Bourbon, son of Charles I (d. 1503)
1443 Magdalena of France, French princess (d. 1495)
1488 Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg, Countess of Wied, German noblewoman (d.
1559)
1521 Takeda Shingen, Japanese daimyo (d. 1573)
1525 Tade Hjek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. 1600)
1530 Bernardino Realino, Italian Jesuit (d. 1616)
1561 Sophie Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbttel, Duchess consort of Pomerania-
Wolgast (d. 1631)
1580 Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer and historian (d. 1637)
1690 Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician, Lord
Chancellor of the United Kingdom (d. 1764)
1709 Franz Xaver Richter, Czech singer-songwriter, violinist, and conductor (d.
1789)
1716 tienne Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791)
1743 Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist and academic (d. 1817)
1761 Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor, founded Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
(d. 1850)
1792 Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and geometer (d. 1856)
1800 Mihly Vrsmarty, Hungarian poet (d.1855)
1844 Alexandra of Denmark (d. 1925)
1846 Ledi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher (d. 1923)
1847 Julia A. Moore, American poet (d. 1920)
1869 Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (d. 1923)
1871 Archie MacLaren, English cricketer (d. 1944)
1883 Henry Cadbury, American historian, scholar, and academic (d. 1974)
1884 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter and etcher (d. 1976)
1886 Rex Stout, American detective novelist (d. 1975)
1886 Zhu De, Chinese general and politician, 1st Vice Chairman of the People's
Republic of China (d. 1976)
1894 Afrnio Pomplio Gastos do Amaral, Brazilian herpetologist (d. 1982)
1895 Henry Williamson, English farmer, soldier, and author (d. 1977)
1896 Georgy Zhukov, Russian general and politician, 2nd Minister of Defence for
the Soviet Union (d. 1974)
1897 Cyril Ritchard, Australian-American actor and singer (d. 1977)
1898 Stuart Garson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Manitoba (d.
1977)
1900 Karna Maria Birmingham, Australian artist, illustrator and print maker (d.
1987)
1901 Ilona Fehr, Hungarian-Israeli violinist and educator (d. 1988)
1903 Nikolai Voznesensky, Soviet economic planner, member of the Politburo of the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (d. 1950)
1905 Alex Wilson, Canadian sprinter and coach (d. 1994)
1910 Alicia Markova, English ballerina and choreographer (d. 2004)
1911 Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (d. 1984)
1911 Calvin Griffith, Canadian-American businessman (d. 1999)
1912 Minoru Yamasaki, American architect, designed the World Trade Center (d.
1986)
1913 Mary Martin, American actress and singer (d. 1990)
1916 Wan Li, Chinese educator and politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's
Republic of China (d. 2015)
1917 Thomas Hayward, American tenor and actor (d. 1995)
1917 Marty Marion, American baseball player and manager (d. 2011)
1920 Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami, Japanese priest, 1st Bishop of Naha (d.
2014)
1921 Vernon McGarity, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2013)
1922 Vsevolod Bobrov, Russian ice hockey player, footballer, and manager (d.
1979)
1923 Dick Shawn, American actor (d. 1987)
1923 Stansfield Turner, American admiral and academic, 12th Director of Central
Intelligence
1924 Masao Horiba, Japanese businessman, founded Horiba (d. 2015)
1925 Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1998)
1926 Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (d. 2013)
1926 Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer
1926 Keith Michell, Australian actor (d. 2015)
1926 Robert Symonds, American actor (d. 2007)
1926 Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, Scottish businessman (d. 2010)
1927 Micheline Bernardini, French dancer and model
1928 Emily McLaughlin, American actress (d. 1991)
1928 Malachi Throne, American actor (d. 2013)
1929 David Doyle, American actor (d. 1997)
1930 Marie Bashir, Australian psychiatrist, academic, and politician, 37th
Governor of New South Wales
1930 Joachim Hoffmann, German historian and author (d. 2002)
1931 Jimmy Lyons, American saxophonist (d. 1986)
1931 Jim Nesbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2007)
1933 Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2006)
1933 Violette Verdy, French ballerina (d. 2016)
1935 Woody Allen, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1936 Igor Rodionov, Russian general and politician, 3rd Russian Minister of
Defence (d. 2014)
1937 Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American soprano and actress (d. 2005)
1937 Gordon Crosse, English composer and academic
1937 Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Latvian psychologist and politician, 6th President of
Latvia
1938 Sandy Nelson, American rock & roll drummer
1939 Lee Trevino, American golfer and sportscaster
1940 Mike Denness, Scottish-English cricketer and referee (d. 2013)
1940 Richard Pryor, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (d.
2005)
1940 Tasso Wild, German footballer
1940 Jerry Lawson, American electronic engineer and inventor (d. 2011)
1942 Mohamed Kamel Amr, Egyptian politician, Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1942 John Crowley, American author and academic
1942 Ross Edwards, Australian cricketer
1943 Kenny Moore, American runner and journalist
1944 Eric Bloom, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944 John Densmore, American drummer and songwriter
1944 Michael Hagee, American general
1944 Tahar Ben Jelloun, Moroccan author and poet
1945 Bette Midler, American singer-songwriter, actress and producer
1946 Jonathan Katz, American comedian and actor
1946 Kemal Kurspahic, Bosnian journalist and author
1946 Gilbert O'Sullivan, Irish singer-songwriter and pianist
1947 Alain Bashung, French singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2009)
1947 Bob Fulton, English-Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
1948 George Foster, American baseball player and radio host
1948 Sarfraz Nawaz, Pakistani cricketer and politician
1948 John Roskelley, American mountaineer and author
1948 Neil Warnock, English footballer and manager
1948 N. T. Wright, English bishop and scholar
1948 Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, Nigerian civil servant and politician, Governor of
Kaduna State (d. 2012)
1949 Jan Brett, American author and illustrator
1949 Sebastin Piera, Chilean businessman and politician, 35th President of
Chile
1950 Manju Bansal, Indian biologist and academic
1950 Ross Hannaford, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2016)
1950 Gary Panter, American illustrator and painter
1950 Filippos Petsalnikos, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Justice
1950 Richard Keith, American actor and drummer
1951 Obba Babatund, American actor, director, and producer
1951 Jaco Pastorius, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (d. 1987)
1951 Treat Williams, American actor
1952 Stephen Poliakoff, English director, producer, and playwright
1954 Alan Dedicoat, English journalist
1954 Judith Hackitt, English chemist and engineer
1954 Franois Van der Elst, Belgian footballer (d. 2017)
1955 Veikko Aaltonen, Finnish actor, director, and screenwriter
1955 Vernica Forqu, Spanish actress
1955 Pat Spillane, Irish footballer and sportscaster
1955 Karen Tumulty, American journalist
1956 Julee Cruise, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress
1957 Chris Poland, American guitarist and songwriter
1957 Vesta Williams, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2011)
1958 Javier Aguirre, Mexican footballer and manager
1958 Candace Bushnell, American journalist and author
1958 Alberto Cova, Italian runner
1958 Gary Peters, American lieutenant and politician
1959 Billy Childish, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter
1959 Wally Lewis, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
1960 Carol Alt, American model and actress
1960 Shirin M. Rai, Indian-English political scientist and academic
1961 Safra A. Catz, Israeli-American businesswoman
1961 Raymond E. Goldstein, American biophysicist and academic
1961 Jeremy Northam, English actor
1962 Sylvie Daigle, Canadian speed skater
1962 Pamela McGee, American basketball player and coach
1963 Marco Greco, Brazilian race car driver
1963 Nathalie Lambert, Canadian speed skater
1963 Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lankan cricketer and politician
1964 Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer
1964 Jo Walton, Welsh-Canadian author and poet
1965 Henry Honiball, South African rugby player
1965 Magnifico, Slovenian singer
1966 Andrew Adamson, New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter
1966 Katherine LaNasa, American actress, ballet dancer, and choreographer
1966 Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player and coach
1967 Nestor Carbonell, American actor
1967 Reggie Sanders, American baseball player
1968 Justin Chadwick, English actor and director
1968 Sarah Fitzgerald, Australian squash player
1968 Anders Holmertz, Swedish swimmer
1969 Richard Carrier, American author and blogger
1970 Jonathan Coulton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1970 Kirk Rueter, American baseball player
1970 Sarah Silverman, American comedian, actress, and singer
1970 Tisha Waller, American high jumper and educator
1971 Emily Mortimer, English actress
1971 Christian Pescatori, Italian race car driver
1971 Mika Pohjola, Finnish-American pianist and composer
1971 John Schlimm, American author and educator
1972 Bart Millard, American singer-songwriter
1973 Steve Gibb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 Costinha, Portuguese footballer and manager
1975 Matt Fraction, American author
1975 Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, American keyboard player and producer (d. 2014)
1975 Thomas Schie, Norwegian race car driver and sportscaster
1975 Sophia Skou, Danish swimmer
1976 Tomasz Adamek, Polish boxer
1976 Laura Ling, American journalist and author
1976 Evangelos Sklavos, Greek basketball player
1977 Brad Delson, American guitarist and producer
1977 Sophie Guillemin, French actress
1977 Lee McKenzie, Scottish journalist
1979 Ryan Malone, American ice hockey player
1979 Stephanie Brown Trafton, American discus thrower
1980 Iftikhar Anjum, Pakistani cricketer
1980 Mohammad Kaif, Indian cricketer and politician
1980 Roger Peterson, Aruban-Dutch singer-songwriter
1980 Mubarak Hassan Shami, Kenyan-Qatari runner
1981 Park Hyo-shin, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
1981 Luke McPharlin, Australian footballer
1981 I Made Wirawan, Indonesian footballer
1982 Riz Ahmed, English actor and rapper
1982 Lloyd Doyley, English footballer
1982 Christos Kalantzis, Greek footballer
1982 Christos Melissis, Greek footballer
1985 John Coughlin, American figure skater
1985 Janelle Mone, American singer-songwriter and producer
1985 Chanel Preston, American porn actress and director
1985 Emiliano Viviano, Italian footballer
1986 DeSean Jackson, American football player
1987 Simon Dawkins, English footballer
1987 Tabarie Henry, Virgin Islander sprinter
1987 Vance Joy, Australian singer-songwriter
1987 Brett Williams, English footballer
1988 Zo Kravitz, American actress, singer, and model
1988 Dan Mavraides, Greek-American basketball player
1988 Tyler Joseph, American musician and singer
1989 Sotelm, Mexican trumpet player, composer, and producer
1990 Tom Tatar, Slovak ice hockey player
1991 Hilda Melander, Swedish tennis player
1991 Sun Yang, Chinese swimmer
1992 Masahudu Alhassan, Ghanaian footballer
1992 Javier Bez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1992 Linos Chrysikopoulos, Greek basketball player
1992 Marco van Ginkel, Dutch footballer
1993 Reena Prnat, Estonian archer
1994 Seedy Njie, English footballer
1995 Agne Cepelyte, Lithuanian tennis player
1995 James Wilson, English footballer
Deaths[edit]
660 Eligius, bishop and saint
948 Gao Conghui, prince and ruler of Jingnan (b. 891)
969 Fujiwara no Morotada, Japanese statesman (b. 920)
1135 Henry I, English king (b. 1068)
1241 Isabella of England, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1214)
1335 Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan, Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate (b. 1305)
1374 Magnus Ericson, king of Sweden (b. 1316)
1433 Go-Komatsu, emperor of Japan (b. 1377)
1455 Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian goldsmith and sculptor (b. 1378)
1521 Leo X, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1475)
1530 Margaret of Austria, duchess of Savoy (b. 1480)
1580 Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)
1581 Alexander Briant, English Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint (b. 1556)
1581 Edmund Campion, English Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and saint (b. 1540)
1581 Ralph Sherwin, English Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and saint (b. 1550)
1633 Isabella Clara Eugenia, infanta of Spain (b. 1566)
1640 Miguel de Vasconcelos, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (b.
1590)
1660 Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist and historian (b. 1592)
1729 Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1665)
1750 Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and
cartographer (b. 1671)
1755 Maurice Greene, English organist and composer (b. 1696)
1767 Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, Scottish politician (b. 1710)
1825 Alexander I, emperor and autocrat of Russia (b. 1777)
1865 Abraham Emanuel Frhlich, Swiss pastor, poet, and educator (b. 1796)
1866 George Everest, Welsh geographer and surveyor (b. 1790)
1867 Charles Gray Round, English lawyer and politician (b. 1797)
1884 William Swainson, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, Attorney-
General of the Crown Colony of New Zealand (b. 1809)
1913 Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and author (b. 1864)
1914 Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (b. 1840)
1916 Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (b. 1858)
1923 Virginie Loveling, Belgian author and poet (b. 1836)
1928 Jos Eustasio Rivera, Colombian-American lawyer and poet (b. 1888)
1933 Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (b. 1865)
1934 Sergey Kirov, Russian engineer and politician (b. 1886)
1935 Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German optician, invented the Schmidt camera (b.
1879)
1943 Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian and educator (b. 1862)
1947 Aleister Crowley, English magician, poet, and mountaineer (b. 1875)
1947 G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1877)
1950 Ernest John Moeran, English pianist and composer (b. 1894)
1954 Fred Rose, American pianist, composer, and publisher (b. 1898)
1964 J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (b. 1892)
1964 Charilaos Vasilakos, Greek runner (b. 1877)
1968 Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer, composer, and conductor (b. 1887)
1968 Daro Moreno, Turkish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1921)
1973 David Ben-Gurion, Polish-Israeli lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister
of Israel (b. 1886)
1975 Nellie Fox, American baseball player and coach (b. 1927)
1975 Ernesto Maserati, Italian race car driver and engineer (b. 1898)
1975 Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American journalist (b. 1906)
1981 Russ Manning, American author and illustrator (b. 1929)
1984 Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter and photographer (b. 1911)
1986 Frank McCarthy, American general and film producer (b. 1912)
1987 James Baldwin, American novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1924)
1987 Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1918)
1988 J. Vernon McGee, American pastor and theologian (b. 1904)
1989 Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1931)
1990 Carla Lehmann, Canadian-English actress (b. 1917)
1991 George Stigler, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1911)
1993 Ray Gillen, American singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
1995 Hopper Levett, English cricketer (b. 1908)
1995 Colin Tapley, New Zealand-English actor (b. 1907)
1995 Maxwell R. Thurman, American general (b. 1931)
1996 Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1928)
1997 Michel Blanger, Canadian banker and businessman (b. 1929)
1997 Stphane Grappelli, French violinist (b. 1908)
1997 Endicott Peabody, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 62nd Governor
of Massachusetts (b. 1920)
2001 Ellis R. Dungan, American director and producer (b. 1909)
2002 Edward L. Beach Jr., American captain and author (b. 1918)
2002 Dave McNally, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2003 Clark Kerr, American economist and academic (b. 1911)
2003 Eugenio Monti, Italian bobsledder (b. 1928)
2004 Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (b. 1911)
2004 Bill Brown, Scottish-Canadian footballer (b. 1931)
2005 Gust Avrakotos, American CIA officer (b. 1938)
2005 Mary Hayley Bell, English actress and playwright (b. 1911)
2005 Freeman V. Horner, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1922)
2006 Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
2006 Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian (b.
1937)
2007 Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player and footballer (b. 1929)
2008 Paul Benedict, American actor (b. 1938)
2008 Joseph B. Wirthlin, American businessman and religious leader (b. 1917)
2010 Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer and academic (b. 1914)
2010 Hillard Elkins, American actor and producer (b. 1929)
2011 Christa Wolf, German author and critic (b. 1929)
2012 Jovan Belcher, American football player (b. 1987)
2012 Arthur Chaskalson, South African lawyer and judge, 18th Chief Justice of
South Africa (b. 1931)
2012 Mitchell Cole, English footballer (b. 1985)
2012 Rick Majerus, American basketball player and coach (b. 1948)
2012 Ed Price, American soldier, pilot, and politician (b. 1918)
2013 Richard Coughlan, English drummer (b. 1947)
2013 Stirling Colgate, American physicist and academic (b. 1925)
2013 Edward Heffron, American soldier (b. 1923)
2013 Martin Sharp, Australian cartoonist and songwriter (b. 1942)
2014 Mario Abramovich, Argentinian violinist and composer (b. 1926)
2014 Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Greek epidemiologist, oncologist, and academic (b.
1938)
2014 Rocky Wood, New Zealand-Australian author (b. 1959)
2015 Rob Blokzijl, Dutch physicist and computer scientist (b. 1943)
2015 Joseph Engelberger, American physicist and engineer (b. 1925)
2015 John F. Kurtzke, American neurologist and academic (b. 1926)
2015 Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2015 Trevor Obst, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1940)
Holidays and observances[edit]
Battle of the Sinop Day (Russia)
Christian feast day:
Blessed Bruna Pellesi
Blessed Charles de Foucauld
Castritian
Eligius
Edmund Campion
Nicholas Ferrar (Episcopal Church)
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)
Earliest day on which Sindhi Cultural Day can fall, while December 7 is the latest;
celebrated on the first Sunday in December. (Sindhi diaspora)
First President Day (Kazakhstan)
Freedom and Democracy Day (Chad)
Great Union Day, celebrates the Union of Transylvania with Romania in 1918.
(Romania)
Military Abolition Day (Costa Rica)
National Day (Myanmar)
Republic Day (Central African Republic)
Restoration of Independence Day (Portugal)
Rosa Parks Day (Ohio and Oregon, United States)
Self-governance Day or Fullveldisdagurinn (Iceland)
Teachers' Day (Panama)
World AIDS Day, and its related observances:
Day Without Art
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "NHL hockey came to the U.S. on Dec. 1, 1924". nhl.com. National Hockey
League. December 1, 2008. Retrieved December 4, 2016. The National Hockey League
celebrates another historic anniversary...remembering the first NHL game played in
the United States, as the Boston Bruins hosted the Montreal Maroons, both expansion
teams, at the Boston Arena on Dec. 1, 1924.
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