12-01-2006, 05:54 AM
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December 1st
1083 ~ Birthday of Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian.
1640 ~ Portugal regained its independence from Spain.
1824 ~ U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the House of Representatives was given the task to decide the winner, as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment.
1835 ~ Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales.
1918 ~ Founding of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia).
1935 ~ Birthday of Woody Allen, Film Director & Actor &Comedian.
1955 ~ Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white man and was arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws.
1959 ~ The Antarctic Treaty signed, which set aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and banned military activity.
1990 ~ English and French Channel Tunnel workers met beneath the English Channel.
1991 ~ Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
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