Daily Calendar for December 1st, 2020

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

Every Year

• World AIDS Day

• Month of December

1830s

• 1831: New York's Erie Canal closed due to weather.

1840s

• Born 1846: William Henry Holmes (archaeologist)

1880s

• Born 1886: Rex Stout (novelist)

1900s

• 1909: The Christmas Club savings account began

1910s

• 1913: First drive-in gasoline service station opened, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• 1919: Lt. Harry Colebourn officially donated Winnie (the bear Christopher Robin Milne named his bear after) to the London Zoo

1920s

• 1921: First flight of helium-filled blimp (C-7), between Virginia and D.C.

• Born 1929: David Fitzgerald Doyle (actor)

1930s

• Born 1935: Woody Allen (actor & producer)

• Born 1939: Lee Trevino (golfer)

1940s

• Born 1940: Richard Pryor (comedian & actor)

• 1940: Dupree Gardens opened, Land O' Lakes, Florida

• 1942: Nationwide gasoline rationing went into effect in the United States

• Born 1945: Bette Midler (singer & actress)

1950s

• 1955: Rosa Parks, a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger

• 1959: The Antarctic Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., guaranteeing peaceful international use of the continent

• 1959: First 12 nations signed the Antarctic Treaty

1970s

• Died 1973: David Ben-Gurion (1st Prime Minister of Israel)

• Born 1977: Brad Delson (guitarist of Linkin Park)

1980s

• Died 1987: James Baldwin (author)

2000s

• Born 2001: Princess Aiko (first child of Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako)

• Died 2002: Capt. Edward L. Beach (author of Run Silent, Run Deep)

• Died 2002: Eugene "Bob" Gregoire (first design chief of Ford, creator of the Lincoln Continental)

• 2004: News anchor, Tom Brokaw, signed off after 23 years of bringing news to viewers

• 2009: Astronaut Bob Thirsk returned to Earth after 6 months on the International Space Station