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December 1 is the 335th day of the year (336th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 30 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 800 – A ...
Date. 1 December. Frequency. Annual. First time. 1988 ; 36 years ago(1988) World AIDS Day, designated on 1 December every year since 1988, [ 1 ] is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease. The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ...
Date. February 4 (Missouri), the 1st Monday after February 4 (California and Michigan), or December 1 (Ohio and Oregon) Frequency. Annual. Rosa Parks Day is a holiday in honor of the civil rights leader Rosa Parks, celebrated in the U.S. state of Missouri on her birthday, February 4, in Michigan and California on the first Monday after her ...
Great Union Day (Romanian: Ziua Marii Uniri, also called Unification Day[1] or National Day) is a national holiday in Romania, celebrated on 1 December, marking the unification of Transylvania, Bassarabia, and Bukovina with the Romanian Kingdom in 1918, something that is known as the Great Union. [2] This holiday was declared after the Romanian ...
1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina. 1885 – First serving of the soft drink Dr Pepper at a drug store in Waco, Texas. 1913 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line. 1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of ...
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December 1, 1969: Congressman Pirnie drawing the first number. The first draft lottery in the United States since 1942 (and the first in peacetime) was held, and September 14 was the first of the 366 days of the year selected, with Congressman Alexander Pirnie of New York making the first selection. [1]
School fire. Cause. Not officially determined. Deaths. 95. On Monday, December 1, 1958, a fire broke out at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois, shortly before classes were to be dismissed for the day. The fire originated in the basement near the foot of a stairway. The elementary school was operated by the Archdiocese of Chicago ...