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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 ...
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 ...
December is the twelfth and final month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. December’s name derives from the Latin word decem (meaning ten) because it was originally the tenth month of the year in the calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC, which began in March.
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 ...
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]
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December 1, 2003 (Monday) The firefight in which more than 50 Iraqis are reported killed is now thought to have been an attempted currency heist. [1] One GI is killed Monday in fighting west of Baghdad. [2] US Health Secretary Tommy Thompson warns that the world is losing the war against AIDS. Thompson said, "We need America, the European Union ...