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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.
- 1913
?
Ford Motor Company
introduces the first moving
assembly line
.
- 1913
?
Crete
is annexed by
Greece
.
- 1913
- The
Buenos Aires
Metro
opens to the public.
- 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.
- 1918
-
Transylvania
unites with the
Kingdom
of
Romania
.
- 1919
-
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
officially takes her seat in the
House of Commons
as the
UK
's first female Member of
Parliament
.
- 1923
? The
dam
of the Gleno Reservoir near
Bergamo
,
Italy
, bursts, killing around 600 people.
- 1934
- In the
Soviet Union
,
Politburo
member
Sergey Kirov
is shot dead by
Leonid Nikolaev
at
Communist
Headquarters in
Leningrad
.
- 1941
-
World War II
:
Emperor
Hirohito
of
Japan
gives the final approval to begin
war
against the
United States
.
- 1941
-
World War II
:
New York City
Mayor
Fiorello La Guardia
signs the Administration Order No. 9, creating the
Civil Air Patrol
.
- 1948
- Taman Shud Case: The
body
of an unidentified man is found in
Adelaide
,
South Australia
, involving an undetectable
poison
and a secret
code
in a rare book. The case remains unsolved.
- 1953
-
Hugh Hefner
publishes the first edition of
Playboy
magazine
.
- 1955
? In
Montgomery, Alabama
, 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
- The
Our Lady of the Angels
school
fire
in
Chicago
kills 92
children
and 3
nuns
.
- 1959
?
Cold War
:
Antarctic Treaty
signed, which sets aside
Antarctica
as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that
continent
.
- 1960
-
Paul McCartney
and
Pete Best
are arrested in
Hamburg
after being accused 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
?
Malta
,
Malawi
and
Zambia
join the
UN
.
- 1965
-
India
's Border Security Force is founded.
- 1966
?
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
succeeds
Ludwig Erhard
as
Chancellor of West Germany
.
- 1969
?
Vietnam War
: The first
draft lottery
in the
United States
is held since
World War II
.
- 1971
?
Khmer Rouge
rebels intensify assaults on
Cambodian
government positions, forcing their retreat from
Kompong Thmar
and nearby
Ba Ray
.
- 1971
? The
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
near
Washington, DC
, killing all 92 people on board.
- 1974
- Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, a
Boeing 727
, crashes northwest of JFK International Airport outside
New York City
, killing all 3 crew members. There were no passengers on board at the time.
- 1976
?
Angola
joins the
UN
.
- 1981
- Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in
Corsica
, killing all 180 people on board.
- 1986
- The
Musee d'Orsay
art museum
in
Paris
opens.
- 1988
-
Benazir Bhutto
becomes
Prime Minister of Pakistan
.
- 1989
- A right-wing rebel group attempts to remove then-
President
of the
Philippines
Corazon Aquino
from power in a failed coup attempt.
- 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
.
- 2000
?
Vicente Fox
becomes
President
of
Mexico
.
- 1081
?
Louis VI of France
(d.
1137
)
- 1083
?
Anna Komnene
,
Byzantine
princess and scholar (d.
1153
)
- 1438
-
Peter II, Duke of Bourbon
(d.
1503
)
- 1443
-
Magdalena of France
, French princess (d.
1495
)
- 1521
-
Takeda Shingen
, Japanese
daimyo
(d.
1573
)
- 1580
-
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
, French
astronomer
(d.
1637
)
- 1690
-
Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke
, English
lawyer
and politician (d.
1764
)
- 1709
-
Franz Xaver Richter
, Austrian-
Moravian
singer
,
violinist
,
composer
and
conductor
(d.
1789
)
- 1716
-
Etienne Maurice Falconet
, French
sculptor
(d.
1791
)
- 1743
?
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
, German
chemist
(d.
1817
)
- 1761
?
Marie Tussaud
, French creator of waxworks (d.
1850
)
- 1766
?
Nikolay Karamzin
, Russian writer (d.
1826
)
- 1785
-
Victor de Broglie
, French
politician
and
diplomat
(d.
1850
)
- 1792
-
Nikolai Lobachevsky
, Russian
mathematician
(d.
1856
)
- 1823
-
Karl Schenk
, Swiss politician (d.
1895
)
- 1840
-
Marie Bracquemond
, French painter (d.
1916
)
- 1844
?
Alexandra of Denmark
,
queen consort
of King
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
(d.
1925
)
- 1847
-
Julia Ann Moore
, American
poet
(d.
1920
)
- 1855
-
John Evans
, Australian politician, 21st
Premier
of
Tasmania
(d.
1943
)
- 1864
-
Carsten Borchgrevink
, Norwegian polar explorer (d.
1934
)
- 1867
-
Ignacy Moscicki
, Polish
scientist
and
politician
(d.
1946
)
- 1869
-
Eligiusz Niewiadomski
, Polish painter and critic (d.
1923
)
- 1873
-
Valery Bryusov
, Russian
poet
(d.
1924
)
- 1873
-
Viktor Chernov
, Russian politician (d.
1952
)
- 1884
-
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
, German painter (d.
1976
)
- 1886
?
Rex Stout
, American
writer
(d.
1975
)
- 1895
?
Henry Williamson
, English writer (d.
1977
)
- 1896
?
Georgy Zhukov
, Marshal of the
Soviet Union
(d.
1974
)
- 1898
-
Stuart Garson
, Canadian politician, 12th
Premier
of
Manitoba
(d.
1977
)
- 1901
-
Ilona Feher
, Hungarian
violinist
(d.
1988
)
- 1901
-
Jane Gray
, Scottish-Australian
supercentenarian
(d.
2014
)
- 1905
?
Clarence Zener
, American
physicist
(d.
1993
)
- 1910
?
Alicia Markova
, British
ballet
dancer (d.
2004
)
- 1911
?
Franz Binder
, Austrian
footballer
(d.
1989
)
- 1911
-
Walter Alston
, American
baseball
player and manager (d.
1984
)
- 1911
-
Calvin Griffith
, Canadian-American businessman (d.
1999
)
- 1912
-
Minoru Yamasaki
, American
architect
(d.
1986
)
- 1913
?
Mary Martin
, American actress (d.
1990
)
- 1916
-
Wan Li
, Chinese politician (d.
2015
)
- 1922
?
Vsevolod Bobrov
, Soviet ice hockey player (d.
1979
)
- 1923
?
Morris
, Belgian cartoonist (d.
2001
)
- 1923
-
Stansfield Turner
, American
admiral
(d.
2018
)
- 1925
?
Martin Rodbell
, American scientist (d.
1998
)
- 1926
-
Keith Michell
, Australian actor (d.
2015
)
- 1928
-
Emily McLaughlin
, American actress (d.
1991
)
- 1928
-
Malachi Throne
, American actor (d.
2013
)
- 1929
?
Alfred Moisiu
, former
President of Albania
- 1929
-
Karl Otto Pohl
, German economist (d.
2014
)
- 1929
-
David Doyle
, American actor (d.
1997
)
- 1930
-
Marie Bashir
, 37th
Governor
of
New South Wales
- 1930
?
Matt Monro
, English singer (d.
1985
)
- 1931
-
Jimmy Lyons
, American
saxophonist
(d.
1986
)
- 1931
-
George Maxwell Richards
,
President
of
Trinidad and Tobago
(d.
2018
)
- 1933
-
Fujiko Fujio
, Japanese writer and illustrator (d.
1996
)
- 1933
-
Lou Rawls
, American
singer-songwriter
,
producer
and
actor
(d.
2006
)
- 1933
-
Violette Verdy
, French ballerina (d.
2016
)
- 1933
-
James Wolfensohn
, 9th
President
of the
World Bank
- 1934
?
Billy Paul
,
American
singer
(d.
2016
)
- 1935
?
Woody Allen
, American
director
and
actor
- 1936
-
Maria Romilda Servini
,
Argentine
lawyer and judge
- 1936
-
Igor Rodionov
, Russian
general
and
politician
(d.
2014
)
- 1937
?
Vaira Vike-Freiberga
, former
President
of
Latvia
- 1938
-
Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui
, Pakistani politician,
Governor
of
Sindh
(d.
2017
)
- 1939
?
Lee Trevino
, American
golf
player
- 1940
?
Richard Pryor
, American actor and comedian (d.
2005
)
- 1942
-
Mohamed Kamel Amr
,
Egyptian
diplomat
- 1943
-
Finn E. Kydland
, Norwegian economist
- 1943
-
Kenny Moore
, American runner and journalist
- 1944
-
Pierre Arditi
, French actor
- 1944
-
A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury
, Bangladeshi politician (d.
2017
)
- 1944
-
Michael Hagee
, American
general
- 1944
-
Tahar Ben Jelloun
, Moroccan-French
poet
- 1944
-
Daniel Pennac
, French writer
- 1944
?
John Densmore
, American
musician
- 1945
?
Bette Midler
, American singer and actress
- 1946
?
Gilbert O'Sullivan
, Irish singer
- 1947
?
Alain Bashung
, French
singer
(d.
2009
)
- 1948
?
Luciano Re Cecconi
, Italian
footballer
(d.
1977
)
- 1948
?
Neil Warnock
, English footballer and manager
- 1948
-
Themba Dlamini
,
Prime Minister
of
Swaziland
- 1948
-
Sarfraz Nawaz
, Pakistani
cricketer
- 1949
?
Pablo Escobar
, Colombian
druglord
(d.
1993
)
- 1949
?
Sebastian Pinera
,
President of Chile
; 2010 - 2014, and since 2018
- 1950
-
Ueli Maurer
, Swiss politician
- 1950
-
Seiichi Sakiya
, Japanese
footballer
- 1950
-
Keith Thibodeaux
, American
actor
and
drummer
- 1951
?
Jaco Pastorius
, American musician (d.
1987
)
- 1951
-
Treat Williams
, American actor
- 1952
-
Stephen Poliakoff
, British
playwright
and
television
dramatist
- 1952
- Ellen McLain, American opera singer and voice actress
- 1952
-
Pegi Young
, American singer, songwriter, environmentalist, educator and philanthropist (d.
2019
)
- 1954
-
Viv Albertine
, Australian-British singer and songwriter
- 1954
-
Medha Patkar
, Indian
activist
- 1954
-
Francois Van der Elst
, Belgian
footballer
(d.
2017
)
- 1956
-
Julee Cruise
, American
singer-songwriter
and
actress
- 1956
-
Billy Stark
, Scottish
footballer
- 1957
-
Chris Poland
, American
guitarist
- 1957
-
Deep Roy
, Kenyan actor
- 1958
?
Javier Aguirre
, Mexican
footballer
and manager
- 1958
-
Candace Bushnell
, American author, journalist and television producer
- 1958
-
Lisa Fischer
, American
singer-songwriter
- 1958
-
Charlene Tilton
, American actress
- 1959
-
Billy Childish
, English singer and musician
- 1960
?
Carol Alt
, American supermodel
- 1961
?
Jeremy Northam
, British actor
- 1961
-
Armin Meiwes
, German
cannibal
and
murderer
- 1962
-
Pamela McGee
, American
basketball
player and coach
- 1963
-
Arjuna Ranatunga
,
Sri Lankan
cricketer
and
politician
- 1964
?
Salvatore Schillaci
, Italian
footballer
- 1965
-
Peter Greste
, Australian
journalist
- 1966
-
Andrew Adamson
, New Zealand
movie director
- 1966
-
Katherine LaNasa
, American actress
- 1966
-
Larry Walker
, Canadian
baseball
player
- 1967
-
Nestor Carbonell
, American actor, director and screenwriter
- 1968
-
Justin Chadwick
, English
actor
and
director
- 1968
-
Anders Holmertz
, Swedish swimmer
- 1968
-
Stephan Beckenbauer
, German
footballer
(d.
2015
)
- 1970
?
Sarah Silverman
, American comedienne
- 1971
?
Emily Mortimer
, English actress
- 1971
?
Mika Pohjola
, Finnish
jazz
pianist and composer
- 1971
-
Melanie Peres
, German-Israeli
model
,
actress
and
singer
- 1974
?
Costinha
, Portuguese
footballer
- 1974
-
Simon Donnelly
, Scottish
footballer
and manager
- 1974
-
Isaiah "Ikey" Owens
, American
keyboardist
and
producer
(d.
2014
)
- 1976
?
Laura Ling
, American journalist
- 1976
-
Matthew Shepard
, American
murder
victim (d.
1998
)
- 1977
-
Brad Delson
, American
guitarist
and
producer
- 1977
-
Akiva Schaffer
, American
actor
,
rapper
,
director
,
producer
and
screenwriter
- 1979
-
Shinji Murai
, Japanese
footballer
- 1981
-
Park Hyo-shin
, South Korean
singer
-
songwriter
- 1982
-
Alfredo Pacheco
,
El Salvadorean
footballer
(d.
2015
)
- 1985
?
Emiliano Viviano
, Italian
footballer
- 1985
-
John Coughlin
, American figure skater
- 1985
-
Chanel Preston
, American pornographic actress
- 1986
-
DeSean Jackson
,
American football
player
- 1988
?
Jay Simpson
, English
footballer
- 1988
?
Zoe Kravitz
, American actress
- 1989
-
Barry Bannan
, Scottish
footballer
- 1990
-
Chanel Iman
, American model
- 1991
-
Sun Yang
, Chinese swimmer
- 1991
-
Dion Waiters
, American
basketball
player
- 1992
-
Masahudu Alhassan
,
Ghanaian
footballer
- 1992
-
Marco van Ginkel
, Dutch
footballer
- 1995
-
Eva Boto
,
Slovenian
singer
- 2001
?
Aiko, Princess Toshi
of
Japan
- 2001
-
Savannah McReynolds
, American actress
- 2001
-
Alice Robinson
, New Zealand alpine ski racer
- 660
-
Saint Eligius
(b. c.
588
)
- 1135
?
Henry I
,
King
of
England
(b.
1068
)
- 1241
?
Isabella of England
, 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
sculptor
(b.
1378
)
- 1521
?
Pope Leo X
(b.
1475
)
- 1530
-
Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy
(b.
1480
)
- 1580
-
Giovanni Morone
, Italian
cardinal
(b.
1509
)
- 1581
-
Alexander Briant
, English
priest
, martyr and
saint
(b.
1556
)
- 1581
-
Edmund Campion
, English priest, martyr and saint (b.
1540
)
- 1581
-
Ralph Sherwin
, English priest, martyr and saint (b.
1550
)
- 1602
-
Kobayakawa Hideaki
, Japanese warlord (b.
1582
)
- 1633
-
Isabella Clara Eugenia
, Spanish consort of
Albert VII, Archduke of Austria
(b.
1566
)
- 1640
-
Miguel de Vasconcelos
, Portuguese politician (b.
1590
)
- 1660
-
Pierre d'Hozier
, French
genealogist
(b.
1592
)
- 1750
-
Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr
, German
mathematician
,
astronomer
and
cartographer
(b.
1671
)
- 1755
-
Maurice Greene
, English
composer
(b.
1696
)
- 1825
? Tsar
Alexander I of Russia
(b.
1777
)
- 1830
?
Pope Pius VIII
(b.
1761
)
- 1864
-
William L. Dayton
, American politician (b.
1807
)
- 1866
?
George Everest
, Welsh surveyor (b.
1790
)
- 1884
-
William Swainson
, English-New Zealand
lawyer
and
politician
(b.
1809
)
- 1886
?
Emil Hartwich
, German lawyer (b.
1843
)
- 1913
-
Juhan Liiv
,
Estonian
poet
and
writer
(b.
1864
)
- 1914
-
Alfred Thayer Mahan
, American
captain
and
historian
(b.
1840
)
- 1916
-
Charles de Foucauld
, French priest (b.
1858
)
- 1917
-
John January
, American
soccer
player (b.
1882
)
- 1934
?
Sergey Kirov
, Soviet politician (b.
1886
)
- 1941
-
Alva B. Adams
, American politician (b.
1875
)
- 1943
-
Damrong Rajanubhab
, Thai
historian
(b.
1862
)
- 1947
?
Aleister Crowley
,
English
occultist
and
writer
(b.
1875
)
- 1947
?
G.H. Hardy
, English
mathematician
(b.
1877
)
- 1954
-
Fred Rose
, American
pianist
,
songwriter
and publisher (b.
1898
)
- 1964
-
J. B. S. Haldane
, English-Indian geneticist (b.
1892
)
- 1964
-
Charilaos Vasilakos
, Greek runner (b.
1877
)
- 1968
-
Nicolae Bretan
,
Romanian
opera
singer
,
composer
and
conductor
(b.
1887
)
- 1969
-
Magic Sam
, American
guitarist
and
singer
(b.
1937
)
- 1972
?
Antonio Segni
,
Prime Minister of Italy
(b.
1891
)
- 1973
?
David Ben-Gurion
,
Prime Minister of Israel
(b.
1886
)
- 1975
-
Anna Roosevelt Halsted
, American writer (b.
1906
)
- 1981
-
Russ Manning
, American
comic
book
artist
(b.
1929
)
- 1987
?
James Baldwin
, American
writer
(b.
1924
)
- 1987
-
Punch Imlach
, Canadian
ice hockey
player, coach and manager (b.
1918
)
- 1990
-
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
, Indian
politician
and
diplomat
(b.
1900
)
- 1991
?
George J. Stigler
, American economist (b.
1911
)
- 1993
-
Ray Gillen
, American
singer-songwriter
(b.
1959
)
- 1995
-
Maxwell R. Thurman
, American general (b.
1931
)
- 1997
?
Stephane Grappelli
, French
violinist
(b.
1908
)
- 1997
-
Endicott Peabody
, 62nd
Governor of Massachusetts
(b.
1920
)
- 1998
?
Bertil Nordahl
, Swedish
footballer
(b.
1917
)
- 2001
-
Roger Leach
, British actor (b.
1948
)
- 2004
?
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
(b.
1911
)
- 2005
-
Jack Colvin
, American actor (b.
1934
)
- 2006
?
Claude Jade
, French actress (b.
1948
)
- 2007
-
Ken McGregor
, Australian
tennis
player (b.
1929
)
- 2008
?
Mikel Laboa
, Basque
singer
and
songwriter
(b.
1934
)
- 2010
?
Adriaan Blaauw
, Dutch
astronomer
(b.
1914
)
- 2011
?
Christa Wolf
, German writer (b.
1929
)
- 2012
-
Mitchell Cole
, English
footballer
(b.
1985
)
- 2012
-
Phil Taylor
, English
footballer
(b.
1917
)
- 2012
-
Jovan Belcher
,
American football
player (b.
1987
)
- 2013
-
Heinrich Boere
, German
Nazi
war criminal
(b.
1922
)
- 2013
-
Lino Grech
, Maltese actor (b.
1930
)
- 2013
-
Edward Heffron
, American
World War II
veteran (b.
1923
)
- 2014
-
Sita Murt
, Spanish
fashion
designer
and
businesswoman
(b.
1946
)
- 2014
-
Mario Abramovich
, Argentine
violinist
and
composer
(b.
1926
)
- 2014
-
Roberto Sagastume Pinto
,
Guatemalan
politician (b.
1944
)
- 2015
-
Joseph Engelberger
, American
engineer
(b.
1925
)
- 2015
-
Robert E. Glennen
, American academic (b.
1933
)
- 2015
-
Jim Loscutoff
, American
basketball
player (b.
1930
)
- 2017
-
Adarsh Sein Anand
, former
Chief Justice of India
(b.
1936
)
- 2017
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Philipp Graf Lerchenfeld
, German politician (b.
1952
)
- 2017
-
Fredy Schmidtke
, German cyclist (b.
1961
)
- 2017
-
Arif Dirlik
, Turkish-born American
historian
(b.
1940
)
- 2017
-
Les Whitten
, American investigative reporter (b.
1928
)
- 2018
-
Ken Berry
, American actor (b.
1933
)
- 2018
-
Ennio Fantastichini
, Italian actor (b.
1955
)
- 2018
-
Anwar Hossain
, Bangladeshi photographer and cinematographer (b.
1948
)
- 2018
-
Scott Stearney
, American Vice Admiral (b.
1960
)
- 2018
-
Stefanie Tucking
, German television presenter (b.
1962
)
- 2018
-
Shoucheng Zhang
, Chinese-American physicist (b.
1963
)
- 2019
-
Henri Biancheri
, French footballer (b.
1932
)
- 2019
-
Shelley Morrison
, American actress (b.
1936
)
- 2019
-
Lil Bub
, American-bred celebrity cat (b.
2011
)
- 2019
-
Paul Sirba
, American Roman Catholic prelate (b.
1960
)
- 2019
-
Pat Sullivan
, American football player (b.
1950
)