December 1 birthdays & history

Famous people born on December 1

• 1896Georgy Zhukov, Russian general and politician, 2nd Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union
• 1792Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and geometer
• 1945Bette Midler, American singer-songwriter, actress and producer
• 1964Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer
• 1988Zoë Kravitz, American actress, singer, and model
• 1761Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor, founded Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
• 1940Richard Pryor, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1958Javier Aguirre, Mexican footballer and manager
• 1970Sarah Silverman, American comedian, actress, and singer
• 1985Janelle Monáe, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

What happened on December 1

• 1821José Núñez de Cáceres wins the independence of the Dominican Republic from Spain and names the new territory the Republic of Spanish Haiti.
• 1822Pedro I was crowned the first emperor of Brazil, seven weeks after his reign began on his 24th birthday.
• 1824United States presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• 1865Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
• 1878President Rutherford B. Hayes gets the first telephone installed in the White House.
• 1900Nicaragua sells canal rights to U.S. for $5 million. The canal agreement fails in March 1901. Great Britain rejects the amended treaty.
• 1918With the signing of the Act of Union, Denmark recognized the Kingdom of Iceland as a fully sovereign state in personal union through a common monarch.
• 1953American men's magazine Playboy was founded in Chicago by Hugh Hefner and his associates.
• 1958The musical Flower Drum Song by Rodgers and Hammerstein premiered on Broadway.
• 1966The Pit, one of U.S. college basketball's premier arenas, opened on the campus of the University of New Mexico.
• 1991A referendum held to ratify the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine passed with more than 92 percent of the vote.
• 2019Vivianne Miedema scored six goals and had four assists for Arsenal W.F.C. in their 11–1 victory over Bristol City W.F.C., which broke the record for the most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match.

Also observed on December 1

• Damrong Rajanubhab Day (Thailand)
• First President Day (Kazakhstan)
• Freedom and Democracy Day (Chad)
• Great Union Day, celebrates the union of Transylvania with Romania in 1918 (Romania)
• National Day (Myanmar)
• Republic Day (Central African Republic)