A bit of December 1st history…
1824 - US House of Representatives begins to decide outcome of election deadlock between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson - Adams wins
1913 - Ford Motor Company institutes world’s 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford
1943 - At the end of the Tehran Conference, the Big Three (Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt) agree that the invasion of Normandy should take place in May 1944
1953 - Hugh Hefner publishes 1st edition of Playboy magazine, featuring Marilyn Monroe as the magazines centerfold
1955 - Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Alabama (pictured)
1998 - Exxon announces a $73.7 billion USD deal to buy Mobil, creating Exxon-Mobil, the worlds largest company
2016 - UN admits its peacekeepers were responsible for the cholera epidemic in Haiti in 2010 that killed 30,000
2019 - Earliest traceable patient, a 55 year old man, develops symptoms of a novel coronavirus, Covid-19, in Wuhan, China
On December 1, 2023 at 01:01AM, some big things happened. Click the date to read more.