On This Day: 1 December

1 December in Indian history

• 1997In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacks the CPI (ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.India
• 1963Nagaland, became the 16th state of India.India

1 December in world history

• 2019Vivianne Miedema scored six goals and had four assists for Arsenal W.F.C. in their 11–1 victory over Bristol City W.F.C., which broke the record for the most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match.
• 2006The law on same-sex marriage comes into force in South Africa, legalizing same-sex marriage for the first time on the African continent.
• 1989Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état.
• 1974Two Boeing 727s, TWA Flight 514 and Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, crashed in the eastern United States in unrelated circumstances, killing 95 people on board both aircraft.
• 1971A period of political and economic reforms in the Socialist Republic of Croatia came to an end as the League of Communists of Yugoslavia decided to purge the state's reformist leadership.
• 1966The Pit, one of U.S. college basketball's premier arenas, opened on the campus of the University of New Mexico.
• 1964Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
• 1959Twelve countries signed the Antarctic Treaty, the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War, banning military activity in the Antarctic and setting the continent aside as a scientific preserve.
• 1955American 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 that city's bus boycott.
• 1941World 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.
• 1939World War II: A day after the beginning of the Winter War in Finland, the Cajander III Cabinet resigns and is replaced by the Ryti I Cabinet, while the Finnish Parliament move from Helsinki to Kauhajoki to escape the Soviet airstrikes.
• 1918With the signing of the Act of Union, Denmark recognized the Kingdom of Iceland as a fully sovereign state in personal union through a common monarch.
• 1913Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
• 1865Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
• 1828Returning to Buenos Aires with troops who fought in the Cisplatine War, Juan Lavalle deposed provincial governor Manuel Dorrego, reigniting the Argentine Civil Wars.
• 1800French Revolutionary Wars: Austrian forces, led by Archduke John of Austria, defeated two divisions of the French First Republic, led by Paul Grenier, at the Battle of Ampfing.

Born on 1 December

• 1986DeSean Jackson, American football player
• 1980Mohammad Kaif, Indian cricketer and politicianIndia
• 1966Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player and coach
• 1950Manju Bansal, Indian biologist and academicIndia
• 1871Archie MacLaren, English cricketer (died 1944)
• 1844Alexandra of Denmark, Queen Consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Empress Consort of India (died 1925)India

Died on 1 December

• 2022Gaylord Perry, American baseball player and coach (born 1938)
• 2006Claude Jade, French actress (born 1948)
• 1997Endicott Peabody, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (born 1920)
• 1964J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (born 1892)India

Frequently asked questions

What happened on 1 December in history?

2019: Vivianne Miedema scored six goals and had four assists for Arsenal W.F.C. in their 11–1 victory over Bristol City W.F.C., which broke the record for the most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match. 2006: The law on same-sex marriage comes into force in South Africa, legalizing same-sex marriage for the first time on the African continent. 1997: In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacks the CPI (ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people. 1989: Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état.

What happened on 1 December in Indian history?

1997: In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacks the CPI (ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people. 1963: Nagaland, became the 16th state of India.

Which famous people were born on 1 December?

DeSean Jackson, American football player (1986); Mohammad Kaif, Indian cricketer and politician (1980); Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player and coach (1966); Manju Bansal, Indian biologist and academic (1950).

Which day is observed on 1 December?

World AIDS Day; Battle of the Sinop Day (Russia); Damrong Rajanubhab Day (Thailand); First President Day (Kazakhstan); Freedom and Democracy Day (Chad).