What are the important events that happened on December 1? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

December 1: Facts & Myths About This Day

December 1 is the 335^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 30 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 18, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,409,120 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatriacontapentagon’ day.

Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 78 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,728 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

December 1 Historical Events

• 1824 –
  United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• 1826 –
  French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.
• 1865 –
  Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
• 1913 –
  The Buenos Aires Subway, the first underground railway system in the southern hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
• 1918 –
  The Kingdom of Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
• 1918 –
  Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union.
• 1948 –
  Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, Australia; involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a very rare book, the case remains unsolved and is “one of Australia’s most profound mysteries”.
• 1958 –
  The Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
• 1981 –
  A Yugoslavian Inex Adria Aviopromet DC-9 crashes in Corsica killing all 180 people on board.
• 2001 –
  Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA’s purchase by American Airlines.

Who were born on December 1?

• 1081 –
  Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
• 1716 –
  Etienne-Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791)
• 1912 –
  Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (d. 1986)
• 1931 –
  Jim Nesbitt, singer (d. 2007)
• 1944 –
  Pierre Arditi, French film and stage actor
• 1967 –
  Nestor Carbonell, American actor
• 1970 –
  Jonathan Coulton, American musician
• 1970 –
  Jouko Ahola, Finnish strongman
• 1974 –
  Isaiah “Ikey” Owens, American keyboardist (The Mars Volta)
• 1985 –
  Janelle Monáe, American musician

Who died on December 1?

• 1135 –
  Henry I of England
• 1707 –
  Jeremiah Clarke, English composer (b. 1674)
• 1830 –
  Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
• 1947 –
  G. H. Hardy, English mathematician (b. 1877)
• 1954 –
  Fred Rose, American songwriter and music publishing executive (b. 1897)
• 2004 –
  Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
• 2006 –
  Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist (b. 1937)
• 2006 –
  Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
• 2008 –
  Paul Benedict, American actor (b. 1938)
• 2009 –
  Gustavo Adolfo Palma, Guatemalan singer (b. 1920)