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From: "Mary" <>
Subject: [FOLKLORE] Today in History - Dec. 1st.
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 08:15:26 -0500


Today is Friday, December first, the 336th day of 2000.
There are 30 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:
On December first, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, refused to
give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus.
Mrs. Parks was arrested, sparking a year-long boycott of the buses by
blacks.

On this date:
In 1913, the first drive-in automobile service station opened, in
Pittsburgh.

In 1919, Lady Astor was sworn in as the first female member of the
British Parliament.

In 1934, Sergei M. Kirov, a collaborator of Josef Stalin, was
assassinated in Leningrad, resulting in a massive purge.

In 1942, nationwide gasoline rationing went into effect in the United
States.

In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
and Soviet leader Josef Stalin concluded their Tehran conference.

In 1956, the Leonard Bernstein musical "Candide," based on Voltaire,
opened on Broadway.

In 1959, representatives of 12 countries, including the United States,
signed a treaty in Washington setting aside Antarctica as a scientific
preserve, free from military activity.

In 1965, an airlift of refugees from Cuba to the United States began
in which thousands of Cubans were allowed to leave their homeland.

In 1969, the US government held its first draft lottery since World
War Two.

In 1973, David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, died in Tel
Aviv at age 87.

Ten years ago: Iraq accepted a US offer to talk about resolving the
Persian Gulf crisis. British and French workers digging the Channel
Tunnel between their countries finally met after knocking out a
passage in a service tunnel large enough to walk through and shake
hands.

Five years ago: Tens of thousands of people in Dublin, Ireland, warmly
welcomed President Clinton to his ancestral homeland. The NATO
alliance chose Spanish Foreign Minister Javier Solana be its new
secretary general.

One year ago: President Clinton addressed a World Trade Organization
conference in Seattle, where he defended his administration's policies
in the face of sometimes violent street demonstrations. An
international team of scientists announced it had mapped virtually an
entire human chromosome. On World AIDS Days, United Nations officials
released a report estimating that eleven million children worldwide
had been orphaned by the pandemic.

Today's Birthdays:
Actor Paul Picerni is 78.
Former CIA director Stansfield Turner is 77.
Actor Robert Symonds is 74.
Singer Billy Paul is 66.
Actor-director Woody Allen is 65. Singer Lou Rawls is 65.
Golfer Lee Trevino is 61.
Singer Dianne Lennon (The Lennon Sisters) is 61.
Comedian-actor Richard Pryor is 60.
Country musician Casey Van Beek (The Tractors) is 58.
Television producer David Salzman ("MADtv") is 57.
Rock singer-musician Eric Bloom (Blue Oyster Cult) is 56.
Rock musician John Densmore (The Doors) is 56.
Actress-singer Bette Midler is 55.
Singer Gilbert O'Sullivan is 54.
Actor Treat Williams is 49.
Country singer Kim Richey is 44.
Actress Charlene Tilton is 42.
Actress-model Carol Alt is 40.
Actor Jeremy Northam is 39.
Actor Nestor Carbonell is 33.
Actor Ron Melendez is 28.
Singer Sarah Masen is 25.
Actress Ashley Monique Clark is 12.



"No man knows his true character until he has run out of gas,
purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent."
-- Marcelene Cox, American writer.


(Copyright 2000 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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