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Today in History
December 1

1862-- President Abraham Lincoln gives the State of the Union address to the 37th Congress.

1881-- Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan Earp are exonerated in court for their action in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ariz.

1900-- Kaiser Wilhelm II refuses to meet with Boer leader Paul Kruger in Berlin.

1905-- Twenty officers and 230 guards are arrested in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the revolt at the Winter Palace.

1909-- President William Howard Taft severs official relations with Nicaragua's Zelaya government and declares support for the revolutionaries.

1918-- An American army of occupation enters Germany.(Let the spoils of war begin)

1925-- After a seven-year occupation, 7,000 British troops evacuate Cologne, Germany.

1933-- Nazi storm troops become an official organ of the Reich.


1941-- Japan's Tojo rejects U.S. proposals for a Pacific settlement as fantastic and unrealistic.

1941-- Great Britain declares a state of emergency in Malaya following reports of Japanese attacks.

1941-- The first Civil Air Patrol is organized in the United States.

1942-- National gasoline rationing goes into effect in the United States.

1969-- America's first draft lottery since 1942 is held.

1971-- Indian Army recaptures part of Kashmir, which had been occupied by Pakistan.

1981-- AIDS virus officially recognized.

1986-- Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North pleads the 5th Amendment before a Senate panel investigating the Iran-Contra arms sale.

1989-- East Germany's parliament changes its constitution, abolishing a section that gave the Communist Party the leading role in the state.

1990-- Channel Tunnel sections from France and the UK meet beneath the English Channel.

1991-- Ukraine's voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the USSR.



Born on December 1

1761-- Madame Tussaud, Swiss-born modeller in wax who founded the world-famous exhibition on London's Baker Street.



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