About December 1
December 1, 2024 is the 336th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 30 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 59 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 1
- 800 –Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
- 1826 –French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.
- 1913 –Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
- 1918 –The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
- 1918 –Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union.
- 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).
- 1925 –World War I aftermath: The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements.
- 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.
- 1948 –Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, Australia; involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a very rare book, the case remains unsolved and is “one of Australia’s most profound mysteries”.
- 1952 –The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgenson, the first notable case of sexual reassignment surgery.
- 1958 –The Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
- 1958 –The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago, Illinois, kills 92 children and three nuns.
- 1960 –Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
- 1966 –The first Gävle goat, an annual Swedish Yule Goat tradition, is first erected in Gävle.
- 1971 –The Indian Army recaptures part of Kashmir occupied forcibly by Pakistan.
- 1975 –Lambda Theta Phi - The first Latino fraternity is established in New Jersey.
- 1981 –The AIDS virus is officially recognized.
- 1984 –NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner was deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of airplane crashes.
- 1989 –Cold War: East Germany’s parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the communist party the leading role in the state.
- 2009 –The Treaty of Lisbon, which amends the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, which together comprise the constitutional basis of European Union, comes into effect.
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