Today In History
Today is Tuesday, Dec. 1, the 336th day of 2020. There are 30 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
› 1955: Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus; the incident sparked a year-long boycott of the buses by Blacks.
ON THIS DATE
› 1824: The presidential election was turned over to the U.S. House of Representatives when a deadlock developed between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay. (Adams ended up the winner.)
› 1965: An airlift of refugees from Cuba to the United States began in which thousands of Cubans were allowed to leave their homeland.
› 1989: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev met with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.
› 1990: British and French workers digging the Channel Tunnel between their countries finally met after knocking out a passage in a service tunnel.
› 1991: Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Actor-director Woody Allen is 85. World Golf Hall of Famer Lee Trevino is 81. Singer Dianne Lennon (The Lennon Sisters) is 81. Country musician Casey Van Beek (The Tractors) is 78. Actor-singer Bette Midler is 75. Singer Gilbert O’Sullivan is 74. Former child actor Keith Thibodeaux (TV: “I Love Lucy”) is 70. Actor Treat Williams is 69. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., is 68. Country singer Kim Richey is 64. Actor Charlene Tilton is 62. Actor-model Carol Alt is 60. Actor Jeremy Northam is 59. Actor Katherine LaNasa is 54. Producer-director Andrew Adamson is 54. Actor Nestor Carbonell is 53. Actor Golden Brooks is 50. Actor-comedian Sarah Silverman is 50. Rock/Christian music singer-songwriter Mat Kearney is 42. Actor Riz Ahmed (Film: “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”) is 38. Actor Charles Michael Davis is 36. Actor Ilfenesh Hadera is 35. R&B singer-actor Janelle Monae is 35. Actor Ashley Monique Clark is 32. Pop-rock-rap singer Tyler Joseph (Twenty One Pilots) is 32. Actor Zoe Kravitz is 32. Pop singer Nico Sereba (Nico & Vinz) is 30. Actor Jackson Nicoll is 17.