December 1<\/p>\n
1640 \u2013 Portugal acclaims Jo\u00e3o IV as King of Portugal ending the personal union of Portugal and Spain by King Philip III of Spain.<\/p>\n
1821 \u2013 Jos\u00e9 N\u00fa\u00f1ez de C\u00e1ceres wins the independence of the Dominican Republic from Spain and names the new territory the Republic of Spanish Haiti.<\/p>\n
1822 \u2013 Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.<\/p>\n
1824 \u2013 In the U.S. presidential election, since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes, the House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the 12th Amendment to the Constitution in the race between Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and William Crawford. (John Quincy Adams is elected)<\/p>\n
1862 \u2013 In his State of the Union Address, President Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered 10 weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.<\/p>\n
1878 \u2013 President Rutherford B. Hayes gets the first telephone installed in the White House<\/p>\n
1913 \u2013 Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.<\/p>\n
1924 \u2013 The National Hockey League’s first United States based franchise, the Boston Bruins, plays their first game in league play at home<\/p>\n
1941 \u2013 At an imperial conference, Emperor Hirohito gives the final approval to initiate “War against the United States, United Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.”<\/p>\n
1955 \u2013 In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat and is arrested for violating the city’s racial segregation laws.<\/p>\n
1958 \u2013 A fire at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago kills 92 children and 3 nuns.<\/p>\n
1959 \u2013 The U.S. and 11 other countries that were active in Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year of 1957\u201358 sign the Antarctic Treaty,<\/em> which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.<\/p>\n 1964 \u2013 President Johnson and his top ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 During the Vietnam War, the first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.<\/p>\n 1974 \u2013 TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 passengers and crew aboard, and Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport killing the 3 crew on the jet chartered to pick up the Baltimore Colts football team in Buffalo, New York<\/p>\n 1984 \u2013 NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration<\/em>, where a remote controlled Boeing 720 airliner is deliberately crashed at Rogers Dry Lake in California’s Mojave Desert, in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013 East Germany’s parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in state government.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 At the Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky, teenager Michael Carneal opens fire on a group of praying students, killing 3 and wounding 5 before surrendering to the school’s principal.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 The first known case of COVID-19 is seen in China.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 The Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico collapses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 1 1640 \u2013 Portugal acclaims Jo\u00e3o IV as King of Portugal ending the personal union of Portugal and Spain by King Philip III of Spain. 1821 \u2013 Jos\u00e9 N\u00fa\u00f1ez de C\u00e1ceres wins the independence of the Dominican Republic from Spain and names the new territory the Republic of Spanish Haiti. 1822 \u2013 Peter I … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62276"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98150,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62276\/revisions\/98150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}