December 1st, 1955, What’s considered the birth of the modern Civil Rights Movement takes place in Montgomery, Alabama.
“I would just like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and have the same rights and privileges as anybody else.”
Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, is arrested after she refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus. Her arrest sparks a successful year-long boycott of the buses by blacks, led by Martin Luther King, Jr.

1934, In what’s then the Soviet Union, communist official Sergey Kirov is assassinated in Leningrad, what’s now St. Petersburg, Russia. Kirov was an associate and potential rival of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who conducts a massive purge following the murder.

1999, in Seattle,1963, Beatlemania arrives in America as the Fab Four‘s first single “I want to hold your hand” is released in the U.S.. 

And 1935, Actor and director, Woody Allen, whose films include “Annie Hall” and “Hannah and Her Sisters”, is born in New York City.

Today in history, December 1st, Ed Donahue, the Associated Press.

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