Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 1
This is a list of selected December 1 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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December 1: Hanukkah begins at sunset (Judaism, 2010); Great Union Day in Romania (1918); World AIDS Day
- 1833 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom abolished slavery throughout most of the British Empire, with the exceptions of Ceylon, Saint Helena, and the territories owned by the East India Company.
- 1913 – The Buenos Aires Metro in Argentina, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, began operations.
- 1934 – Soviet politician Sergey Kirov (pictured) was assassinated at the Smolny Institute in Leningrad.
- 1955 – African-American Civil Rights Movement: Seamstress Rosa Parks was arrested for violating the racial segregation laws of Montgomery, Alabama, after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, precipitating the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 1990 – Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France met 40 metres (131 ft) beneath the English Channel seabed.