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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. Pre-1600. 800 – A ...
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.
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 ...
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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:
December 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of Reconciliation, formerly celebrated as Day of the Vow by the Afrikaners (South Africa) Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Kazakhstan from the Soviet Union in 1991. [ 51] National Day, celebrates the withdrawal of United Kingdom from Bahrain, making Bahrain an independent emirate in 1971.
The original Famous Birthdays website was created by Edward Morykwas, a Michigan schoolteacher, in 1996. [4] [5] [6]The site was updated to its current format in November 7, 2012, by Evan Britton, [7] who has since described the website as "Wikipedia for Generation Z".
Our guide features the best gifts to make people with December birthdays feel special and celebrated, separate from the month's holidays. 14 gifts to make December birthdays feel special Skip to ...