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  • The 1910 Model T Ford

    Model T

    1913 Ford Motor Company institutes the world's first moving assembly line for the Model T Ford
  • 1934 Leningrad mayor Sergei 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 up her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama
  • Tunnel diggers from France and England meet half way. Photo: Rex Features

    Latest Wonder of the World

    1990 British and French workers meet in the middle of the Channel Tunnel, 40 meters under the English Channel, achieving a major engineering feat and fulfilling the long-held dream of linking Britain to Europe
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  • 1903 The first Western film, "The Great Train Robbery," is released, starring Justus D. Barnes and G. M. Anderson
  • 2003 "The Return of the King," the third 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
  • 1822 Franz Liszt, aged 11, debuts as a pianist in Vienna
  • 1973 Jack Nicklaus finishes at 13-under-par 275 to win the Walt Disney World Open by one stroke over Mason Rudolph and becomes the first player to reach $2 million in PGA Tour career earnings

The New York Daily News reports the first successful sex reassignment surgery, headlining "Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty"

December 1, 1952

  • Tipu Sultan

    1751 - 1799

  • Madame Tussaud

    1761 - 1850

  • Georgy Zhukov

    1896 - 1974

  • Pablo Escobar

    1949 - 1993

  • Sebastián Piñera

    1949 - 2024
More Birthdays on December 1

  • Mary Martin

    1913 - 1990

  • Richard Pryor

    1940 - 2005

  • Bette Midler

    80 Years Old

  • Sarah Silverman

    55 Years Old

  • Janelle Monáe

    40 Years Old

  • Zoë Kravitz

    37 Years Old

  • Tyler Joseph

    37 Years Old

  • Walter Alston

    1911 - 1984

  • Lee Trevino

    86 Years Old

Punk rock band the Sex Pistols use profanity on TV, getting them branded as "rotten punks"

December 1, 1976

  • 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
  • 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
More December 1 Weddings

  • Leo X

    1475 - 1521

  • Alexander I

    1777 - 1825

  • David Ben-Gurion

    1886 - 1973

  • James Baldwin

    1924 - 1987

  • Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

    1900 - 1990

  • Sandra Day O'Connor

    1930 - 2023
More December 1 Deaths
  • Burial of Henry I at Reading Abbey painted by Harry Morley. Photo: Reading Museum

    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
  • Beeton's Christmas Annual: A Study in Scarlett

    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
  • The wedding in Jodhpur, India

    Priyanka Chopra & Nick Jonas

    The wedding in Jodhpur, India December 1, 2018
  • Burial of a coronavirus victim in Iran during the COVID-19 pandemic

    COVID-19 Pandemic

    Burial of a coronavirus victim in Iran during the COVID-19 pandemic December 1, 2019
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  • The original Broadway cast of South Pacific – the first million-selling LP

    Goodbye Scratchy 78s, Hello Vinyl

    December 2, 1906
  • The only known photograph of Flannelfoot – a smiling Harry Vickers in military uniform

    Flannelfoot, The False Teeth Filcher

    December 3, 1937
  • Dioscorus, the enraged father, raises his sword to decapitate his daughter Barbara

    The Beheading of Saint Barbara

    December 4, 306 AD
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was among the most prolific, versatile, and popular composers of all time.

    Mozart, the Incomparable Musical Genius

    December 5, 1791
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