December 1: In 1824 neither candidate for U.S. President received enough electoral votes to win and the House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner; in 1865 the first historically African American university in the southern states is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina, Shaw University; in 1885 Dr. Pepper is served for the first time at a drug store in Waco, Texas; in 1913 Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line; in 1919 Lady Astor, elected just a few days prior, takes her seat in Britains House of Commons; in 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the citys racial segregation laws; in 1958 a fire at the Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago kills 92 students and teachers; in 1988 Benazir Bhutto becomes the first female prime minister of Pakistan (and the first and only female head of state in a Muslim country). Birthdays: Madame Marie Tussaud (1761); baseball manager Walter Alston (1911); actress/singer Mary Martin (1913); actor Malachi Throne (1923); singer Lou Rawls (1933); actor/director Woody Allen (1935); comedian/actor Richard Pryor (1940); Doors drummer John Densmore (1944); Blue Öyster Cult singer Eric Bloom (1944); singer/actress Bette Midler (1945); jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius (1951); actress Charlene Tilton (1958); model/actress Carol Alt (1960); murder victim Matthew Shepard (1976). Music: In 1957 Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Sam Cooke, and The Rays all make their national television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show; in 1971 John Lennon releases Happy Xmas (War is Over); in 1958 The Teddy Bears To Know Him Is To Love Him hits #1 and in 1973 The Carpenters Top of the World hits #1.
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