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
- 1420 –Henry V of England enters Paris.
- 1834 –Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
- 1862 –In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
- 1913 –Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
- 1913 –The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
- 1918 –The Kingdom of 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.
- 1925 –World War I aftermath: The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements.
- 1934 –In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolayev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad.
- 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.
- 1959 –Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
- 1963 –Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India.
- 1966 –The first Gävle goat, an annual Swedish Yule Goat tradition, is first erected in Gävle.
- 1969 –Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
- 1981 –A Yugoslavian Inex Adria Aviopromet DC-9 crashes in Corsica killing all 180 people on board.
- 1989 –Cold War: East Germany’s parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the communist party the leading role in the state.
- 1990 –Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.
- 1991 –Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
- 2001 –Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA’s purchase by American Airlines.
- 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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