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Juan Lavalle
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Juan Lavalle
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John IV of Portugal
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Pedro I of Brazil, later also Pedro IV of Portugal
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The Red Ribbon, a symbol of the fight against AIDS
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2004 Gävle goat
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Flag of Ukraine
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The Pit
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Ford assembly line in 1913
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Midpoint of the Channel Tunnel in 2018
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Francis Walsingham
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1640 – John IV was declared King of Portugal, resulting in the Portuguese Restoration War with Spain. | refimprove |
| 1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the United States, was founded in Raleigh, North Carolina. | refimprove section |
| 1913 – The Buenos Aires Underground in Argentina, the first underground railway system in Latin America and in the Southern Hemisphere, began operations. | unreferenced table |
| 1913 – Ford Motor Company began operating the world's first moving assembly line for the mass production of automobiles. | lots of PN tags |
| 1937 – Hassan Modarres, a Shi'a cleric and notable supporter of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, was poisoned and then suffocated while praying in prison. | date/fact not referenced in article |
| 1958 – The colony of Ubangi-Shari became an autonomous territory within the French Community and took the name Central African Republic. | date/fact not in article |
| 1958 – A fire in the Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago killed ninety-two students and three nuns. | refimprove |
| 1989 – Led by the Reform the Armed Forces Movement, members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines began a coup attempt against President Corazon Aquino. | needs more footnotes |
| 1990 – Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France met Template:Convert beneath the English Channel seabed. | Too much uncited, yellow "too technical" banner |
| 2009 – The Treaty of Lisbon, which amended the two treaties that comprise the constitutional basis of the European Union, came into effect. | refimprove section |
| Zhu De |b|1886| | unref'd section |
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- 1828 – Returning to Buenos Aires with troops who fought in the Cisplatine War, Juan Lavalle (pictured) deposed provincial governor Manuel Dorrego, reigniting the Argentine Civil Wars.
- 1918 – With the signing of the Act of Union, Denmark recognized the Kingdom of Iceland as a fully sovereign state in personal union through a common monarch.
- 1923 – The Gleno Dam in the Italian province of Bergamo failed due to poor workmanship, flooding the downstream valley and killing at least 356 people.
- 1934 – Soviet politician Sergei Kirov was assassinated at the Smolny Institute in Leningrad.
- 1941 – The Civil Air Patrol, the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force, was founded.
- 1948 – In "one of Australia's most profound mysteries", the body of an unidentified man was found on Somerton beach in Adelaide, a case which remains unsolved.
- 1953 – American men's magazine Playboy was founded in Chicago by Hugh Hefner and his associates.
- 1958 – The musical Flower Drum Song by Rodgers and Hammerstein premiered on Broadway.
- 1959 – Twelve countries signed the Antarctic Treaty, the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War, banning military activity in the Antarctic and setting the continent aside as a scientific preserve.
- 1966 – The Pit, one of U.S. college basketball's premier arenas, opened on the campus of the University of New Mexico.
- 1966 – The first Gävle goat, a Swedish Yule goat tradition, was constructed in Gävle and then burned to the ground on New Year's Eve.
- 1971 – A period of political and economic reforms in the Socialist Republic of Croatia came to an end as the League of Communists of Yugoslavia decided to purge the state's reformist leadership.
- 1988 – Five armed men hijacked a bus carrying schoolchildren and a teacher in Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz, Russia), and were later given an [[Ilyushin Il-76|Ilyushin Template:Nowrap]] aircraft and ransom for the release of the hostages.
- 1991 – A referendum held to ratify the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine passed with more than 92 percent of the vote.
- Born/died: | Muhammad III of Alamut |d|1255| Giovanni Morone |d|1580| Florence Petty |b|1870| Archie MacLaren |b|1871| Jeni Bojilova-Pateva |b|1878| William Swainson |d|1884| Jack Crawford |b|1886| Ardina Moore |b|1930| Shi Yousan |bd|1891; 1940| Ueli Maurer |b|1950| Candace Bushnell |b|1958| Jo Walton |b|1964|J. B. S. Haldane |d|1964| Jason Palmer |b|1971| Anna Roosevelt Halsted |d|1975| Riz Ahmed |b|1982|
Notes
- Decline and fall of Pedro II of Brazil appears on November 15, Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil appears on November 29, and Legacy of Pedro II of Brazil appears on December 5, so Pedro I should not appear in the same year
- Channel Tunnel should not also appear on 6 May 1994 (tunnel opening), 1 June 1994 (freight service), 14 November 1994 (passenger service)
December 1: Great Union Day in Romania; Rosa Parks Day in some states and cities in the United States; World AIDS Day (2024)
- 1577 – Francis Walsingham (pictured), Elizabeth I of England's principal secretary and spymaster, was knighted.
- 1822 – Pedro I was crowned the first emperor of Brazil, seven weeks after his reign began on his 24th birthday.
- 1955 – In a key event in the civil rights movement, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott.
- 1974 – Two Boeing 727s, Trans World Airlines Flight 514 and Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, both crashed in the eastern United States in unrelated circumstances, killing a total of 95 on board both aircraft.
- 2019 – Vivianne Miedema scored six goals and had four assists for Arsenal W.F.C. in their 11–1 victory over Bristol City W.F.C. that broke the record for the most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match.