December 1 in history
Events on December 1
Notable events that happened on December 1 in past years.
- 2020
The Arecibo Telescope collapses.
Wikipedia article: Arecibo Telescope - 2011
The Alma-Ata Metro was opened.
Wikipedia article: Almaty Metro - 2000
Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.
Wikipedia article: Vicente Fox - 1990
Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet beneath the seabed.
Wikipedia article: Channel Tunnel - 1984
NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.
Wikipedia article: NASA - 1973
Papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia.
Wikipedia article: Papua New Guinea - 1963
Nagaland, became the 16th state of India.
Wikipedia article: Nagaland - 1958
The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.
Wikipedia article: Our Lady of the Angels School fire - 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.
Wikipedia article: Fiorello La Guardia - 1924
A Soviet-backed communist 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt fails in Estonia.
Wikipedia article: 1924 Estonian coup attempt - 1918
The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
Wikipedia article: Kingdom of Yugoslavia - 1878
President Rutherford B. Hayes gets the first telephone installed in the White House.
Wikipedia article: Rutherford B. Hayes - 1828
Argentine general Juan Lavalle makes a coup against governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution.
Wikipedia article: Juan Lavalle - 1662
Diarist John Evelyn records skating on the frozen lake in St James's Park, London, watched by Charles II and Queen Catherine.
- 800
A council is convened in the Vatican, at which Charlemagne is to judge the accusations against Pope Leo III.
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