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 336^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 30 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 18, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,733,011,200 seconds 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 ‘trihectatriacontahexagon’ 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 59 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 4,363 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

December 1 Historical Events

• 1640 –
  End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 60 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the House of Habsburg (also called the Philippine Dynasty).
• 1834 –
  Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
• 1918 –
  The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
• 1941 –
  World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
• 1955 –
  American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city’s racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• 1959 –
  Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
• 1964 –
  Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
• 1974 –
  Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
• 1988 –
  Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• 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?

• 1716 –
  Etienne-Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791)
• 1766 –
  Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (d. 1826)
• 1884 –
  Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (d. 1976)
• 1925 –
  Martin Rodbell, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
• 1948 –
  Tom Wright, English bishop and theologian
• 1954 –
  Annette Haven, American pornographic actress
• 1955 –
  Mark Thompson, American disc jockey and actor
• 1970 –
  Sarah Silverman, American actress and comedian
• 1973 –
  Jon Theodore, American musician
• 1977 –
  Jared Fogle, American spokesperson

Who died on December 1?

• 1455 –
  Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian artist and metal smith (b. 1378)
• 1581 –
  Alexander Briant, English saint (b. 1556)
• 1707 –
  Jeremiah Clarke, English composer (b. 1674)
• 1755 –
  Maurice Greene, English composer (b. 1696)
• 1830 –
  Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
• 1934 –
  Sergey Kirov, Russian revolutionary (b. 1886)
• 1968 –
  Darío Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer (b. 1921)
• 1984 –
  Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (b. 1911)
• 1996 –
  Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1928)
• 1997 –
  Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (b. 1908)