TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Dec. 1, 1991

Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union.

ON THIS DATE 1952

The New York Daily News ran a front-page story on Christine Jorgensen’s sex-reassignment surgery with the headline, “Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty”.

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.

1969

The U.S. government held its first draft lottery since World War II.