What day is December 1? Historical events that took place on December 1
This Day in History December 1st. The most notable events that took place on December 1st range from historical, political to cultural and social events.
Domestic events taking place on December 1
December 1, 1902;Nguyen Thai Hoc's birthday. Nguyen Thai Hoc was a Vietnamese revolutionary who advocated using force to overthrow the French colonial government.
December 1, 1920:Date of birth of General Le Duc Anh, birth name Le Van Giac, alias Nguyen Phu Hoa, Sau Nam, is the fourth President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for the term 1992 - 1997. Before that, he was the Minister of National Defense of Vietnam, holding the rank of General.
December 1, 1958:President Ho Chi Minh attended the signing ceremony of the Joint Statement between Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, on behalf of the Government Delegation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and Prime Minister Kim Il Sung, on behalf of the Government Delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
December 1, 1958:The US-Diem regime poisoned more than 6,000 patriotic prisoners in Phu Loi prison, killing 1,000 people. A mass movement to fight against the enemy's terror and massacre broke out throughout Saigon and the South, especially among workers and laborers, lasting until March 1959.
International events taking place on December 1
December 1, 1783:The French physicist Jacques Charles discovered all the rules of modern ballooning. The balloon he invented, filled with hydrogen, rose into the sky from the garden of Tuyilery.
December 1, 1866:The death of George Everest. He was a British surveyor, director of the Survey of India, who made a highly accurate map of this vast country. In 1841, he determined the coordinates and height of the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest.
December 1, 1886:A group of workers in Woolwich founded Dial Square football club, the forerunner of Arsenal football club.
December 1, 1923:Morris’s birthday. Morris’s real name is Maurice de Bevere. He is a famous cartoonist, known as the author of Lucky Luke – the story of a cowboy who “shoots faster than his shadow”.
December 1, 1925:Martin Rodbell's birthday. Martin Rodbell was an American chemist and endocrinologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the G protein.
December 1, 1933:Date of birth of Fujiko F. Fujio. Japanese manga artist, extremely famous for his work Doraemon, a manga series loved by many generations of young readers.
December 1, 1959:The Antarctic Treaty was signed. The Antarctic Treaty was established to preserve the Antarctic continent and all its territories and seas below 60 degrees south latitude for peaceful purposes, especially scientific research.
December 1, 1988:The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that December 1 of each year is World HIV/AIDS Day, to promote the cooperation of all humanity in preventing and fighting this epidemic.
