What are the important events that happened on December 1? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

December 1: Facts & Myths About This Day

December 1 is the 336^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 30 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 18, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,733,011,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatriacontahexagon’ day.

Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 59 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,363 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

December 1 Historical Events

• 1822 –
  Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
• 1826 –
  French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.
• 1834 –
  Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
• 1913 –
  The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
• 1941 –
  Pacific War: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gave the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
• 1958 –
  The Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
• 1958 –
  The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago, Illinois, kills 92 children and three nuns.
• 1969 –
  The first legislation to limit aircraft noise levels at airports is introduced in U.S. Federal Air Regulation, Part 36.
• 1975 –
  Lambda Theta Phi - The first Latino fraternity is established in New Jersey.
• 1989 –
  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.

Who were born on December 1?

• 1896 –
  Georgy Zhukov, Russian general & Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1974)
• 1925 –
  Martin Rodbell, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
• 1933 –
  Lou Rawls, American singer (d. 2006)
• 1949 –
  Jan Brett, American author illustrator
• 1951 –
  Obba Babatundé, American actor
• 1955 –
  Verónica Forqué, Spanish actress
• 1961 –
  Jeremy Northam, English actor
• 1962 –
  Joe Quesada, American comic book writer
• 1963 –
  Nathalie Lambert, Canadian short track speed skater
• 1982 –
  Christos Kalantzis, Greek footballer

Who died on December 1?

• 1640 –
  Miguel de Vasconcelos, last Secretary of State of the Kingdom of Portugal, during the Iberian Union (b. c. 1590)
• 1709 –
  Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian preacher (b. 1644)
• 1729 –
  Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (b. 1665)
• 1767 –
  Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (b. 1710)
• 1825 –
  Tsar Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)
• 1830 –
  Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
• 1866 –
  George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest (b. 1790)
• 1954 –
  Fred Rose, American songwriter and music publishing executive (b. 1897)
• 2002 –
  Dave McNally, American baseball player (b. 1942)
• 2005 –
  Mary Hayley Bell, English dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills (b. 1911)