Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 1
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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.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Images
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English Channel -
Juan Lavalle -
John IV of Portugal -
Pedro I of Brazil, later also Pedro IV of Portugal -
Sergey Kirov
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The Red Ribbon, a symbol of the fight against AIDS -
2004 Gävle goat -
Flag of Ukraine -
Ford assembly line in 1913
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1640 – John IV was declared King of Portugal, resulting in the Portuguese Restoration War with Spain. | refimprove section |
| 1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the United States, was founded in Raleigh, North Carolina. | refimprove section |
| 1934 – Soviet politician Sergey Kirov was assassinated at the Smolny Institute in Leningrad. | outdated, refimprove section |
| 1941 – The Civil Air Patrol, the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force, was founded. | refimprove section |
| 1958 – The colony of Ubangi-Shari became an autonomous territory within the French Community and took the name Central African Republic. | refimprove section |
| 1958 – A fire in the Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago killed 92 students and three nuns. | refimprove |
| 1989 – Led by the Reform the Armed Forces Movement, members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines began a coup attempt against President Corazon Aquino. | needs more footnotes |
| 1990 – Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France met 40 metres (131 ft) beneath the English Channel seabed. | section too technical |
Eligible
- 1822 – Pedro I was formally crowned the first Emperor of Brazil, seven weeks after his reign began on his 24th birthday, 12 October.
- 1913 – The Buenos Aires Underground in Argentina, the first underground railway system in Latin America and in the Southern Hemisphere, began operations.
- 1913 – Ford Motor Company began operating the world's first moving assembly line for the mass production of automobiles.
- 1948 – In "one of Australia's most profound mysteries", the body of an unidentified man was found on Somerton beach in Adelaide, a case which remains unsolved today.
- 1955 – In a key event in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 1959 – Twelve countries signed the Antarctic Treaty, the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War, banning military activity in the Antarctic and setting the continent aside as a scientific preserve.
- 1966 – The first Gävle goat, a Swedish Yule Goat tradition, was constructed in Gävle and then burned to the ground that same night.
- 2009 – The Treaty of Lisbon, which amends the two treaties which comprise the constitutional basis of the European Union, came into effect.
Notes
- Decline and fall of Pedro II of Brazil appears on November 15 and Legacy of Pedro II of Brazil appears on December 5, so Pedro I should not appear in the same year
December 1: World AIDS Day; Great Union Day in Romania (1918)
- 1577 – Queen Elizabeth I of England's principal secretary and spymaster Francis Walsingham was knighted.
- 1828 – Juan Lavalle, returning to Buenos Aires with troops that fought in the Cisplatine War, deposed the provincial governor Manuel Dorrego, reigniting the Argentine Civil Wars.
- 1918 – With the signing of the Act of Union, Denmark recognized the Kingdom of Iceland as a fully sovereign state in personal union with Denmark through a common monarch.
- 1966 – The Pit (pictured), one of US college basketball's premier arenas, opened on the campus of the University of New Mexico.
- 1966 – The first Gävle goat, a Swedish Yule Goat tradition, was constructed in Gävle and then burned to the ground that same night.
- 1991 – Over 92% of Ukrainian voters approved their country's independence as declared by the Ukrainian parliament on 24 August.