This Day in History
01 Dec 1626
Pasha Muhammad ibn Farukh tyrannical gov of Jerusalem driven out
01 Dec 1640
Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule
01 Dec 1641
Massachusetts becomes the first colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
01 Dec 1653
An athlete from Croydon is reported to have run 20 miles from St Albans to London in less than 90 minutes
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Sergey Kirov murdered
Sergey Kirov a leader of the Russian Revolution and a high-ranking member of the Politburo is shot to death at his Leningrad office by Communist Party member ...
Rosa Parks ignites bus boycott
In Montgomery Alabama Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man a violation of the citys racial segregatio...
Presidential election goes to the House
As no presidential candidate had received a majority of the total electoral votes in the election of 1824 Congress decides to turn over the presidential electi...
Chunnel makes breakthrough
Shortly after 11 a.m. on December 1 1990 132 feet below the English Channel workers drill an opening the size of a car through a wall of rock. This was no or...
Stettinius succeeds Hull as secretary of state
On this day in 1944 Edward R. Stettinius Jr. becomes Franklin Roosevelts last secretary of state by filling the Cabinet spot left empty by the Cordell ...
New state declared in the Balkans
Three weeks after the armistice and on the same day that Allied troops cross into Germany for the first time a new state is proclaimed in Belgrade Serbia.As ...
Situation in Cambodia worsens
In Cambodia communist fighters renew their assaults on government positions forcing the retreat of Cambodian government forces from Kompong Thmar and nearby B...
Johnson Administration makes plans to bomb North Vietnam
In two crucial meetings (on this day and two days later) at the White House President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers agree after some debate...
Lee Trevino is born
Golfing legend Lee Trevino is born on this day in 1939 in Dallas Texas. Growing up in a poor Mexican-American family Trevino and his two sisters were raised ...
Congress decides outcome of presidential election
On this day in 1824 Congress acts to decide a presidential election for the first time in history giving the presidency to John Quincy Adams. A clause in the ...
Elfego Baca battles Anglo cowboys
Elfego Baca legendary defender of southwestern Hispanos manages to hold off a gang of 80 cowboys who are determined to kill him.The trouble began the previous...
Bette Midler is born in Honolulu, Hawaii
By the time she appeared as the final guest of Johnny Carsons 30-year career on The Tonight Show and brought tears to the unflappable hosts eyes...
Due date for Victor Hugo
According to an agreement with his publisher French novelist Victor Hugo is due to turn in a draft of his book Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame...
Trailblazing comic Richard Pryor born
On this day in 1940 the influential comedian and actor Richard Pryor who rose to fame in Hollywood in the 1970s and appeared in such hit films as Silver Strea...
Students die in Chicago school fire
A fire at a grade school in Chicago kills 90 students on this day in 1958.The Our Lady of Angels School was operated by the Sisters of Charity in Chicago. In 19...
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