On this day in History - Dec. 01

• 1135 - Henrique I de Inglaterra, died
• 1521 - Pope Leo X died, [born in Florence 1475]
• 1640 - Restauração da Independencia de Portugal em relação a Espanha; João, Duque de Bragança torna-se rei como João IV de Portugal . ( Portugal regains its independence from Spain and John IV of Portugal becomes king).
• 1822 -Pedro I é coroado imperador do Brasil (Peter I is crowned as Emperor of Brazil)
• 1824- The presidential election between John Q. Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford, and Henry Clay was turned over to the House of Representatives due to the lack of an electoral-vote majority.
• 1825 - Czar Alexander I Russia died (n. 1777)
• 1887 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes appeared for the first time in print in the story "A Study in Scarlet."
• 1912 - Minoru Yamasaki, born , american architect (d. 1990)
• 1918 - Iceland becomes a self-governing kingdom, yet remains united with Denmark.
• 1928 - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer died (b. 1888)
• 1934 - Benny Goodman debuts on radioJazz clarinet pioneer Benny Goodman debuts as a regular on radio variety show Let's Dance. Goodman, who was white, became one of the first bandleaders to use both black and white musicians.
• 1934, Sergei M. Kirov, a member of Politburo, was assassinated in Leningrad, by Leonid Nikolayev resulting in a massive purge. (It is widely thought that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered this murder).
• 1935 - Woody Allen born , american film director, actor, comedian
• 1943 - President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin concluded their Tehran conference.
• 1945 - Bette Midler, born, Actress-singer
• 1948 - George Foster, born , baseball star
• 1954 - Ernest Hemingway is Literature Nobel Prize
• 1955 - Rosa Parks ignites bus boycott. In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city's racial segregation laws. The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., followed Park's historic act of civil disobedience. Read the case in historychannel
• 1958 - Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
• 1959- Twelve nations, including the United States, signed in Washington DC a treaty setting aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve free from military activity.
• 1973 - David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, died in Tel Aviv at age 87.
• 1974 - A Boeing 727 carrying TWA Flight 514 crashes 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Dulles International Airport during bad weather, killing all 92 people on-board.
• 1974 - Costinha, born, portuguese football player of FC Porto
• 1981 - A Yugoslavian DC-9 crashes into a mountain while approaching Ajaccio Airport in Corsica killing 178.
• 1986 -The President of the Republic, François Mitterrand, inaugurated the new Musée d'Orsay in Paris and it opened to the public on December 9th.
• 1990 - Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 meters beneath the English Channel seabed, establishing the first ground connection between the island of Great Britain and the mainland of Europe since the last ice age.
• 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 Bush pulled the U.S. out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001.
• Dia Mundial de Luta Contra a Sida (World AIDS Day)