Major Events
- 1913 Ford Motor Company institutes world's 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford
- 1934 Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov is assassinated, Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38
- 1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama
- 1988 Benazir Bhutto named Prime Minister of Pakistan, the 1st female leader of a Muslim country
- 1990 British and French workers meet in the middle of the Channel Tunnel under the English Channel
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Dec 1 in Film & TV
- 1953 Hugh Hefner publishes 1st edition of Playboy magazine, featuring Marilyn Monroe as the magazine's 1st centerfold
- 2003 "The Return of the King", 3rd and final film in the Lord of the Rings series, directed by Peter Jackson and starring Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen premieres in Wellington, New Zealand
Dec 1 in Music
- 1822 Franz Liszt, aged 11, debuts as a pianist in Vienna
Dec 1 in Sport
- 1973 Jack Nicklaus finishes at 13-under-par 275 to win the Walt Disney World Open by 1 stroke from Mason Rudolph; becomes the first player to reach $2 million in PGA Tour career earnings
Did You Know?
The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation
Tipu Sultan
Madame Tussaud
Georgy Zhukov
Pablo Escobar
Sebastián Piñera
Mary Martin
Richard Pryor
Bette Midler
Sarah Silverman
Janelle Monáe
Zoë Kravitz
Tyler Joseph
Walter Alston
Lee Trevino
Fun Fact About December 1
Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as "rotten punks"
Famous Weddings
- 1917 American silent film actress Myrtle Gonzalez (27) weds American film actor/director Allen Watt (33) in Los Angeles, California
- 1927 Chinese political and military leader Chiang Kai-shek (40) weds Soong Mei-ling (28) in Shanghai
- 1973 NFL running back Gale Sayers (30) weds second wife, American philanthropist Ardythe Bullard, until his death in 2020
Famous Divorces
- 1994 Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere announce they are separating
- 2008 "CSI" actress Marg Helgenberger (50) divorces actor Alan Rosenberg (58) due to irreconcilable differences after 19 years of marriage
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Henry I of England
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Alexander I
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Sandra Day O'ConnorArticles, Photos and Quiz
Fish Dish Finishes Off a King
Doctors warned King Henry I against eating lampreys. But he enjoyed the slippery fish and happily devoured a plateful of them leading to his death on this day.
December 1, 1135
How the First Sherlock Holmes Story was Sold for a Song
How did an English publisher most famous for giving the world Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management come to publish the first Sherlock Holmes story?
December 1, 1887
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The wedding in Jodhpur, India
December 1, 2018
COVID-19 Pandemic
Burial of a coronavirus victim in Iran during the COVID-19 pandemic
December 1, 2019
