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 336th 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, 28,883,520 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 ‘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.
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December 1 Historical Events
- 800 –Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
- 1918 –The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
- 1958 –The Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
- 1971 –Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
- 1973 –Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia.
- 1981 –A Yugoslavian Inex Adria Aviopromet DC-9 crashes in Corsica killing all 180 people on board.
- 1984 –NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner was deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of airplane crashes.
- 1989 –Cold War: East Germany’s parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the communist party the leading role in the state.
- 1991 –Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
- 2009 –The Treaty of Lisbon, which amends the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, which together comprise the constitutional basis of European Union, comes into effect.
Who were born on December 1?
- 1792 –Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1856)
- 1917 –Marty Marion, American baseball player and manager (d.2011)
- 1922 –Vsevolod Bobrov, Soviet ice hockey player (d. 1979)
- 1934 –Billy Paul, American singer
- 1937 –Chuck Low, American actor
- 1944 –Pierre Arditi, French film and stage actor
- 1948 –Tom Wright, English bishop and theologian
- 1955 –Verónica Forqué, Spanish actress
- 1963 –Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1971 –Peter Van de Veire, Belgian radio-presenter
Who died on December 1?
- 1581 –Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (b. 1540)
- 1707 –Jeremiah Clarke, English composer (b. 1674)
- 1709 –Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian preacher (b. 1644)
- 1755 –Maurice Greene, English composer (b. 1696)
- 1866 –George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest (b. 1790)
- 1916 –Charles de Foucauld, French religious figure (b. 1858)
- 1991 –George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1911)
- 1997 –Michel Bélanger, French Canadian businessman and banker (b. 1929)
- 2004 –Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
- 2009 –Gustavo Adolfo Palma, Guatemalan singer (b. 1920)
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