December 1 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN — International AIDS Day.
🌏 International Neurologists Day.
🌏 Antarctica Day.
🌏 World Skating Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
Uzbekistan – Karakalpak Language Day.
Turkmenistan – Good Neighborhood Day.
Iceland – Self-Government Day.
Kazakhstan – First President’s Day.
Russia – Sinop Battle Day.
Russia – Hockey Day.
Latvia – Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide against the Latvian People by the Totalitarian Communist Regime.
Panama – Teachers’ Day.
Belarus – Lawyers’ Day.
Japan – Cinematography Day.
Ukraine – Prosecutors’ Day.
UAE – Remembrance Day.
Costa Rica – Military Coup Day.
Chad – Freedom and Democracy Day.
Romania – Great Unification Day.
Portugal – Restoration of Independence.
Central African Republic – Republic Day.
Thailand – Damrong Rajanuhab Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1640 – The Iberian Union was abolished in Lisbon.
– 1828 – The Decembrist Revolution began in Argentina.
– 1879 – A train was blown up near Moscow.
– 1887 – The first book about Sherlock Holmes was published.
The first subway in Latin America was launched in Buenos Aires.
– 1918 – The Kingdom of Iceland gained independence from Denmark.
– 1918 – The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was proclaimed.
– 1924 – The revolution began in Estonia.
– 1929 – Uzbekistan switched from the Arabic script to the Latin alphabet.
– 1925 – Saodat magazine begins publication.
– 1933 – Zangiota district is established.
– 1934 – The Great Terror begins after the assassination of Kirov.
– 1941 – World War II: The Emperor of Japan declares war on the United States.
– 1943 – World War II: The Tehran Conference ends.
– 1945 – The World Democratic Federation of Women is established.
– 1958 – The Central African Republic gains the right to self-government.
– 1958 – 92 students die in a school fire in Chicago.
– 1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested.
– 1971 – An-24 plane crashes in Saratov, killing 57 people.
– 1973 – Papua New Guinea gains self-rule from Australia.
– 1974 – A Boeing 727 crashes at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, killing 92 people.
– 1981 – A passenger plane crashes in Corsica, killing 180 people.
– 1989 – A failed military coup attempt in the Philippines.
– 1989 – The East German parliament abolishes the Communist Party’s leadership role.
– 1990 – A 40-meter-deep underwater tunnel connecting France and England opens.
– 1991 – A referendum is held in Ukraine on secession from the Soviet Union.
– 1991 – Ukraine holds its first presidential election.
– 1991 – The first presidential elections were held in Kazakhstan.
– 1999 – The official opening ceremony of the production complex of the Uzbek-South Korean textile joint venture “Kabul-Uzbek” was held in Tashkent.
– 2006 – The XV Asian Games began in Doha, the capital of Qatar.
– 2011 – The Alma-Ata metro was launched.
– 2019 – The beginning of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan.