December 1
1824 - The presidential election between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford and Henry Clay was turned over to the House of Representatives after none of the candidates received an electoral vote majority. (John Quincy Adams was ultimately selected by the House to serve as the next president of the United States; to date, this is the only presidential election in U.S. history to be determined by the House.)
1862 - President Abraham Lincoln sent his Second Annual Message to Congress, which was read aloud by the Secretary of the Senate. In it, Lincoln called for the abolition of slavery, saying that "in giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free."
1887 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" appeared for the first time in print in the story "A Study in Scarlet."
1913 - The first automobile service station opened, in Pittsburgh.
1934 - Sergei M. Kirov, the head of the Communist Party in Leningrad, was assassinated as Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a massive purge that would claim tens of millions of lives.
1941 - Japan’s Emperor Hirohito approved waging war against the United States, Britain and the Netherlands after his government rejected U.S. demands contained in the Hull Note.
1942 - During World War II, nationwide gasoline rationing went into effect in the United States; the goal was not so much to save on gas, but to conserve rubber that was desperately needed for the war effort by reducing the use of tires.
1955 - Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her front-section bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama; this event marked the birth of the Civil Rights movement.
1959 - Twelve nations, including the United States, signed a treaty setting aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve free from military activity.
1963 - The Beatles' first single, "I Want to Hold Your Hand," was released in the United States.
1965 - An airlift of refugees from Cuba to the United States began in which thousands of Cubans were allowed to leave their homeland.
1969 - The United States held its first draft lottery since World War II.
1973 - David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, died in Tel Aviv at age 87.
1974 - TWA Flight 514, a Washington-bound Boeing 727, crashed in Virginia after being diverted from National Airport to Dulles International Airport; all 92 people on board were killed. Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, a Boeing 727, crashed near Stony Point, New York, with the loss of its three crew members (the plane had been chartered to pick up the Baltimore Colts football team in Buffalo, New York).
1990 - British and French workers digging the Channel Tunnel between their countries finally met after knocking out a passage in a service tunnel.
1991 - Ukrainians overwhelmingly voted for independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 - "Long Island Lolita" Amy Fisher was sentenced to prison for shooting and seriously wounding Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her lover, Joey Buttafuoco. (Fisher served seven years.)
1997 - Representatives from more than 150 countries gathered at a global warming summit in Kyoto, Japan and over the course of ten days forged an agreement to control the emission of greenhouse gases. (President George W. Bush pulled the U.S. out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001.)
1998 - Exxon and Mobil agreed to merge, creating the world's largest corporation.
2000 - Vicente Fox was sworn in as president of Mexico, ending 71 years of ruling-party domination.
2004 - Tom Brokaw signed off for the final time as anchor of the "NBC Nightly News".
2009 - President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 more U.S. troops into the war in Afghanistan but promised to begin withdrawal in 18 months.
2016 - During the first stop of a “Thank you” tour, President-elect Donald Trump made a surprise announcement from the stage in Cincinnati, saying he had decided to offer the post of defense secretary to retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis.
2020 - Disputing President Donald Trump’s persistent, baseless claims, Attorney General William Barr told The Associated Press that the U.S. Justice Department had uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the 2020 election. Trump filed a lawsuit in Wisconsin seeking to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots in a longshot attempt to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the battleground state. Republicans attempting to undo Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up their lawsuit, three days after it was thrown out by Pennsylvania’s highest court.
Birthdays
26 - Corinna Kopf (model)
29 - Javier Baez (baseball player)
31 - Chanel Iman (model)
33 - Zoe Kravitz (singer)
33 - Ashley Monique Clark (actress)
35 - DeSean Jackson (football player)
36 - Janelle Monae (singer)
37 - Charles Michael Davis (actor)
39 - Riz Ahmed (actor)
43 - Dianna Williams (reality star)
44 - Nate Torrence (actor)
46 - Sarah Masen (singer)
46 - David Hornsby (actor)
49 - Ron Melendez (actor)
51 - Sarah Silverman (actress/comedian)
51 - Golden Brooks (actress)
54 - Nestor Carbonell (actor)
55 - Katherine LaNasa (actress)
60 - Jeremy Northam (actor)
61 - Carol Alt (actress/model)
63 - Charlene Tilton (actress)
65 - Kim Richey (country singer)
70 - Treat Williams (actor)
71 - Keith Thibodeaux (actor)
76 - Bette Midler (actress/singer)
82 - Dianne Lennon (singer)
82 - Lee Trevino (golfer)
86 - Woody Allen (actor/director)
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Today in Sports History - December 1
1924 - The Boston Bruins and the Montreal Maroons played the first NHL game to be played in the United States. The game was played at Boston Arena.
1928 - National League President John Heydler first to propose a baseball rule change calling for a 10th man, or 'designated hitter', to bat in place of the pitcher; ironically, the NL voted in favor of proposal, but the American League turned it down.
1936 - Larry Kelley of Yale won the Heisman Trophy.
1951 - Princeton running back Dick Kazmaier wins the Heisman Trophy.
1954 - The New Yoork Yankees and Baltimore Orioles complete largest trade in MLB history as 17 players, including Don Larsen, Gene Woodling, Bob Turley change teams; first phase of transaction began November 18 and concludes today after the MLB draft.
1956 - Led by future basketball Hall of Famers Bill Russell and K.C. Jones, the United States wins its fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal with an 89-55 win over the Soviet Union at the Games held in Melbourne, Australia.
1959 - LSU running back Billy Cannon wins the Heisman Trophy.
1964 - The Houston Colt .45s changed their name to the Houston Astros.
1967 - Seattle was awarded an American League baseball franchise (the Pilots).
1967 - Wilt Chamberlain set an NBA record when he missed 22 free throws in a game; Chamberlain still score 52 points in the game, leading the Philadelphia 76ers to a 133-109 win over Seattle.
1980 - South Carolina running back George Rogers wins the Heisman Trophy.
1981 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar passes Oscar Robertson (26,710) to become the NBA's second all-time leading scorer behind Wilt Chamberlain.
1984 - Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie won the Heisman Trophy.
1990 - BYU quarterback Ty Detmer wins the Heisman Trophy.
1991 - Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino sets an NFL record with his eighth 3,000-yard passing season of his career.
1996 - Wayne Gretzky of the New York Rangers becomes the first player in NHL history to record 3,000 points.
1997 - Golden State Warriors guard Latrell Sprewell assaults head coach P.J. Carlesimo and is suspended for 10 games as a result.
2003 - Bidding began on the baseball that was deflected by a fan in the stands during a Chicago Cubs game. The ball was sold on December 18, 2003, for $106,600 at auction. The foul ball appeared to be headed for the glove of left fielder Moises Alou in Game 6 of the National League Championship series. The Florida Marlins ended up winning the game 8-3. The Cubs then lost Game 7.
2012 - Wisconsin defeats #14 Nebraska 70-31 in the Big Ten Championship Game in Indianapolis.
2015 - In the largest deal ever for a MLB pitcher, Boston Red Sox land one of the biggest catches of the off-season, signing free agent David Price for 7 years and $217 million.
2015 - After finishing the season with the largest payroll in MLB history at $298.3 million, the Los Angeles Dodgers are assigned the largest luxury tax bill ever at $43.7 million.
1824 - The presidential election between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford and Henry Clay was turned over to the House of Representatives after none of the candidates received an electoral vote majority. (John Quincy Adams was ultimately selected by the House to serve as the next president of the United States; to date, this is the only presidential election in U.S. history to be determined by the House.)
1862 - President Abraham Lincoln sent his Second Annual Message to Congress, which was read aloud by the Secretary of the Senate. In it, Lincoln called for the abolition of slavery, saying that "in giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free."
1887 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" appeared for the first time in print in the story "A Study in Scarlet."
1913 - The first automobile service station opened, in Pittsburgh.
1934 - Sergei M. Kirov, the head of the Communist Party in Leningrad, was assassinated as Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a massive purge that would claim tens of millions of lives.
1941 - Japan’s Emperor Hirohito approved waging war against the United States, Britain and the Netherlands after his government rejected U.S. demands contained in the Hull Note.
1942 - During World War II, nationwide gasoline rationing went into effect in the United States; the goal was not so much to save on gas, but to conserve rubber that was desperately needed for the war effort by reducing the use of tires.
1955 - Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her front-section bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama; this event marked the birth of the Civil Rights movement.
1959 - Twelve nations, including the United States, signed a treaty setting aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve free from military activity.
1963 - The Beatles' first single, "I Want to Hold Your Hand," was released in the United States.
1965 - An airlift of refugees from Cuba to the United States began in which thousands of Cubans were allowed to leave their homeland.
1969 - The United States held its first draft lottery since World War II.
1973 - David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, died in Tel Aviv at age 87.
1974 - TWA Flight 514, a Washington-bound Boeing 727, crashed in Virginia after being diverted from National Airport to Dulles International Airport; all 92 people on board were killed. Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, a Boeing 727, crashed near Stony Point, New York, with the loss of its three crew members (the plane had been chartered to pick up the Baltimore Colts football team in Buffalo, New York).
1990 - British and French workers digging the Channel Tunnel between their countries finally met after knocking out a passage in a service tunnel.
1991 - Ukrainians overwhelmingly voted for independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 - "Long Island Lolita" Amy Fisher was sentenced to prison for shooting and seriously wounding Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her lover, Joey Buttafuoco. (Fisher served seven years.)
1997 - Representatives from more than 150 countries gathered at a global warming summit in Kyoto, Japan and over the course of ten days forged an agreement to control the emission of greenhouse gases. (President George W. Bush pulled the U.S. out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001.)
1998 - Exxon and Mobil agreed to merge, creating the world's largest corporation.
2000 - Vicente Fox was sworn in as president of Mexico, ending 71 years of ruling-party domination.
2004 - Tom Brokaw signed off for the final time as anchor of the "NBC Nightly News".
2009 - President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 more U.S. troops into the war in Afghanistan but promised to begin withdrawal in 18 months.
2016 - During the first stop of a “Thank you” tour, President-elect Donald Trump made a surprise announcement from the stage in Cincinnati, saying he had decided to offer the post of defense secretary to retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis.
2020 - Disputing President Donald Trump’s persistent, baseless claims, Attorney General William Barr told The Associated Press that the U.S. Justice Department had uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the 2020 election. Trump filed a lawsuit in Wisconsin seeking to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots in a longshot attempt to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the battleground state. Republicans attempting to undo Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up their lawsuit, three days after it was thrown out by Pennsylvania’s highest court.
Birthdays
26 - Corinna Kopf (model)
29 - Javier Baez (baseball player)
31 - Chanel Iman (model)
33 - Zoe Kravitz (singer)
33 - Ashley Monique Clark (actress)
35 - DeSean Jackson (football player)
36 - Janelle Monae (singer)
37 - Charles Michael Davis (actor)
39 - Riz Ahmed (actor)
43 - Dianna Williams (reality star)
44 - Nate Torrence (actor)
46 - Sarah Masen (singer)
46 - David Hornsby (actor)
49 - Ron Melendez (actor)
51 - Sarah Silverman (actress/comedian)
51 - Golden Brooks (actress)
54 - Nestor Carbonell (actor)
55 - Katherine LaNasa (actress)
60 - Jeremy Northam (actor)
61 - Carol Alt (actress/model)
63 - Charlene Tilton (actress)
65 - Kim Richey (country singer)
70 - Treat Williams (actor)
71 - Keith Thibodeaux (actor)
76 - Bette Midler (actress/singer)
82 - Dianne Lennon (singer)
82 - Lee Trevino (golfer)
86 - Woody Allen (actor/director)
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Today in Sports History - December 1
1924 - The Boston Bruins and the Montreal Maroons played the first NHL game to be played in the United States. The game was played at Boston Arena.
1928 - National League President John Heydler first to propose a baseball rule change calling for a 10th man, or 'designated hitter', to bat in place of the pitcher; ironically, the NL voted in favor of proposal, but the American League turned it down.
1936 - Larry Kelley of Yale won the Heisman Trophy.
1951 - Princeton running back Dick Kazmaier wins the Heisman Trophy.
1954 - The New Yoork Yankees and Baltimore Orioles complete largest trade in MLB history as 17 players, including Don Larsen, Gene Woodling, Bob Turley change teams; first phase of transaction began November 18 and concludes today after the MLB draft.
1956 - Led by future basketball Hall of Famers Bill Russell and K.C. Jones, the United States wins its fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal with an 89-55 win over the Soviet Union at the Games held in Melbourne, Australia.
1959 - LSU running back Billy Cannon wins the Heisman Trophy.
1964 - The Houston Colt .45s changed their name to the Houston Astros.
1967 - Seattle was awarded an American League baseball franchise (the Pilots).
1967 - Wilt Chamberlain set an NBA record when he missed 22 free throws in a game; Chamberlain still score 52 points in the game, leading the Philadelphia 76ers to a 133-109 win over Seattle.
1980 - South Carolina running back George Rogers wins the Heisman Trophy.
1981 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar passes Oscar Robertson (26,710) to become the NBA's second all-time leading scorer behind Wilt Chamberlain.
1984 - Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie won the Heisman Trophy.
1990 - BYU quarterback Ty Detmer wins the Heisman Trophy.
1991 - Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino sets an NFL record with his eighth 3,000-yard passing season of his career.
1996 - Wayne Gretzky of the New York Rangers becomes the first player in NHL history to record 3,000 points.
1997 - Golden State Warriors guard Latrell Sprewell assaults head coach P.J. Carlesimo and is suspended for 10 games as a result.
2003 - Bidding began on the baseball that was deflected by a fan in the stands during a Chicago Cubs game. The ball was sold on December 18, 2003, for $106,600 at auction. The foul ball appeared to be headed for the glove of left fielder Moises Alou in Game 6 of the National League Championship series. The Florida Marlins ended up winning the game 8-3. The Cubs then lost Game 7.
2012 - Wisconsin defeats #14 Nebraska 70-31 in the Big Ten Championship Game in Indianapolis.
2015 - In the largest deal ever for a MLB pitcher, Boston Red Sox land one of the biggest catches of the off-season, signing free agent David Price for 7 years and $217 million.
2015 - After finishing the season with the largest payroll in MLB history at $298.3 million, the Los Angeles Dodgers are assigned the largest luxury tax bill ever at $43.7 million.
