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Wikipedia. : Selected anniversaries/December. 1828 – Returning to Buenos Aires with troops who fought in the Cisplatine War, Juan Lavalle (pictured) deposed provincial governor Manuel Dorrego, reigniting the Argentine Civil Wars. 1918 – With the signing of the Act of Union, Denmark recognized the Kingdom of Iceland as a fully sovereign ...
1577 – Francis Walsingham (pictured), Elizabeth I of England 's principal secretary and spymaster, was knighted. 1822 – Pedro I was crowned the first emperor of Brazil, seven weeks after his reign began on his 24th birthday. 1934 – Soviet politician Sergei Kirov was assassinated at the Smolny Institute in Leningrad.
December 1 is the 335th day of the year (336th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 30 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]
December 2: 1885 – Birth of George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1950) 1931 – Birth of Nigel Calder, British science writer. 1942 - Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. December 3:
Spouse (s) Raymond Parks. (m. 1932; died 1977) Signature. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the ...
2016 (Thursday) 2015 (Wednesday) January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 358 days remain until the end of the year (359 in leap years ).
1995 was designated as: United Nations Year for Tolerance. World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War. This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government no longer providing public funding, marking the beginning of the Information Age.
Zach Gilford in “Friday Night Lights” NBC. When Taylor Kitsch, who played football bad boy Tim Riggins on the show, was asked about a potential FNL reboot, he firmly stated there’s no more ...