Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 1
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December 1: Union Day in Romania (1918), World AIDS Day (awareness ribbon pictured)
- 1640 - John IV was declared King of Portugal, resulting in the Portuguese Restoration War with Spain.
- 1822 - Pedro I was crowned the first Emperor of Brazil.
- 1941 - Civil Air Patrol was founded.
- 1955 - Rosa Parks was arrested for violating racial segregation laws in Montgomery, Alabama after refusing to give her seat on a bus to a white man, precipitating the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 1958 - The colony of Ubangi-Shari became an autonomous territory within the French Community and took the name Central African Republic.
- 1990 - Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France met 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed.
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