SomeFacts | December 1

On this day - December 1

800 — A council is convened in the Vatican, at which Charlemagne is ...

1420 — Henry V of England enters Paris alongside his father-in-law ...

1577 — Courtiers Christopher Hatton and Thomas Heneage are knighted ...

1640 — End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of ...

1662 — Diarist John Evelyn records skating on the frozen lake in St ...

1768 — The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøya in Norway.

1821 — José Núñez de Cáceres wins the independence of the Dominican ...

1822 — Pedro I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.

1824 — United States presidential election: Since no candidate ...

1828 — Argentine general Juan Lavalle makes a coup against governor ...

1834 — Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the ...

1862 — American Civil War: In his second State of the Union Address, ...

1865 — Shaw University, the first historically black university in ...

1878 — President Rutherford B. Hayes gets the first telephone ...

1900 — Nicaragua sells canal rights to U.S. for $5 million. The canal ...

1913 — Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First ...

1913 — The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system ...

1918 — The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the ...

1918 — Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the ...

1918 — Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation ...

1919 — Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament (MP) ...

1924 — A Soviet-backed communist 1924 Estonian coup d'état ...

1924 — The National Hockey League's first United States–based ...

1934 — Sergei Kirov is assassinated, paving way for the repressive ...

1939 — The Soviet Union establishes the Finnish Democratic Republic ...

1939 — World War II: A day after the beginning of the Winter War in ...

1941 — World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and ...

1941 — World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives his tacit ...

1952 — The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine ...

1955 — American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, ...

1958 — The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 ...

1958 — The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the ...

1959 — Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, ...

1960 — Patrice Lumumba is arrested by Mobutu Sese Seko's men on ...

1963 — Nagaland, became the 16th state of India.

1964 — Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his ...

1969 — Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is ...

1971 — Purge of Croatian Spring leaders starts in Yugoslavia at the ...

1971 — Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on ...

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

1974 — Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, ...

1974 — TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles ...

1981 — Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, ...

1984 — NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an ...

1988 — Benazir Bhutto, is named as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, ...

1988 — World AIDS Day is proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states.

1989 — Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the ...

1989 — Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform ...

1990 — Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and ...

1991 — Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum ...

1997 — Fourteen-year-old Michael Carneal opens fire at a group of ...

1997 — In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacks the CPI (ML) ...

2000 — Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, ...

2001 — The United Russia political party was founded.

2005 — As a result of the merger of the Perm Oblast and the ...

2006 — The law on same-sex marriage comes into force in South Africa, ...

2009 — The Treaty of Lisbon entered into force in the European Union.

2011 — The Alma-Ata Metro was opened.

2018 — The Oulu Police informed the public about the first offence of ...

2019 — The outbreak of coronavirus infection begins in Wuhan.

2019 — Arsenal Women 11–1 Bristol City Women breaks the record for ...

2020 — The Arecibo Telescope collapses.