| 1135 |
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Henry I of England dies and the crown is passed to his nephew Stephen of Bloise. |
| 1581 |
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Edmund Champion and other Jesuit martyrs are hanged at Tyburn, England, for sedition, after being tortured. |
| 1861 |
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The U.S. gunboat Penguin seizes the Confederate blockade runner Albion carrying supplies worth almost $100,000. |
| 1862 |
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President Abraham Lincoln gives the State of the Union address to the 37th Congress. |
| 1863 |
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Belle Boyd, a Confederate spy, is released from prison in Washington. |
| 1881 |
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Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan Earp are exonerated in court for their action in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ariz. |
| 1900 |
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Kaiser Wilhelm II refuses to meet with Boer leader Paul Kruger in Berlin. |
| 1905 |
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Twenty officers and 230 guards are arrested in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the revolt at the Winter Palace. |
| 1908 |
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The Italian Parliament debates the future of the Triple Alliance and asks for compensation for Austria’s action in Bosnia-Herzegovina. |
| 1909 |
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President William Howard Taft severs official relations with Nicaragua’s Zelaya government and declares support for the revolutionaries. |
| 1916 |
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King Constantine of Greece refuses to surrender to the Allies. |
| 1918 |
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An American army of occupation enters Germany. |
| 1925 |
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After a seven-year occupation, 7,000 British troops evacuate Cologne, Germany. |
| 1933 |
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Nazi storm troops become an official organ of the Reich. |
| 1934 |
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Josef Stalin’s aide, Sergei Kirov, is assassinated in Leningrad. |
| 1941 |
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Japan’s Tojo rejects U.S. proposals for a Pacific settlement as fantastic and unrealistic. |
| 1941 |
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Great Britain declares a state of emergency in Malaya following reports of Japanese attacks. |
| 1941 |
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The first Civil Air Patrol is organized in the United States. |
| 1942 |
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National gasoline rationing goes into effect in the United States. |
| 1955 |
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Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, defying the South’s segregationist laws. |
| 1969 |
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America’s first draft lottery since 1942 is held. |
| 1986 |
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Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North pleads the 5th Amendment before a Senate panel investigating the Iran-Contra arms sale. |
| Born on December 1 |
| 1761 |
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Madame Tussaud, Swiss-born modeller in wax who founded the world-famous exhibition on London’s Baker Street. |
| 1847 |
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Julia Moore, poet. |
| 1863 |
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Oliver Herford, American humorist and poet. |
| 1886 |
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Rex Stout, writer, creator of detective character Nero Wolfe. |
| 1913 |
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Mary Martin, American actress. |
| 1925 |
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Martin Rodbell, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist. |
| 1935 |
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Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg], American actor, writer and director. |
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