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December 1December 1, 1640- A nationalist revolution in Portugal led to independence from Spain as the Spanish garrisons were driven out of Portugal. December 1,1822- Dom Pedro, founder of the Brazilian Empire, was crowned as the first emperor of Brazil. December 1, 1918- Iceland was granted independence by the Danish parliament. December 1, 1919- Lady Nancy Astor became the first woman in the British House of Commons. December 1, 1925- The Locarno Treaties were signed by France, Belgium and Germany, as a preventative measure to avoid another war, in the aftermath of world War I. Terms of the Locarno Pact were guaranteed by Britain and Italy. December 1, 1941- The American Civil Air Patrol (CAP), a U.S. Air Force auxiliary, was founded as Director of Civilian Defense, former New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, signed the formal order. The cap currently provides aerospace education, a CAP cadet program, and emergency services such as locating missing aircraft. December 1, 1942- The Beveridge Report was published in Britain envisioning the welfare state including insurance for the entire population. December 1, 1955- The birth of the modern American civil rights movement occurred as Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white man and move to the back section of a municipal bus. Her arrest resulted in a year-long boycott of the city bus system by African Americans and led to legal actions ending racial segregation on municipal buses throughout the South. December 1, 1988- Benazir Bhutto was nominated to become prime minister of Pakistan, the first woman to govern a Muslim nation.December 1, 1989- Mikhail Gorbachev became the first Soviet Russian leader to visit the Vatican and meet the Pope, thus ending 72 years of strict atheist policy in Communist Russia.December 1, 1990- England was connected to mainland Europe for the first time since the Ice Age as engineers digging a railway tunnel under the English Channel broke through the last rock layer.December 1, 1994- The head of the U.N. Commission on Rwanda estimated 500,000 deaths had resulted fromgenocide.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 04:51:39 +0000

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