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Today in History

December 1st, 1955
What’s considered the birth of the modern Civil Rights Movement takes place in Montgomery, Alabama.
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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 [-----2-----] 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 [-----3-----] of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who conducts a massive purge following the murder.

1963
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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.
have the same rights and privileges as anybody else sparks a successful year-long boycott of the buses an associate and potential rival Beatlemania arrives in America as the Fab Four‘s first single “I want to hold your hand” is released in the U.S.