Today in History: December 1, Rosa Parks refuses to give up bus seat

Today is Sunday, Dec. 1, the 336th time of 2024. There are 30 days near successful the year.

Today successful history:

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested aft refusing to springiness up her spot to a achromatic antheral connected a Montgomery, Alabama, metropolis bus; the incidental sparked a yearlong boycott of the buses and helped substance the U.S. civilian rights movement.

Also connected this date:

In 1824, the statesmanlike predetermination was turned implicit to the U.S. House of Representatives aft nary of the candidates (John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay) won much than 50% of the electoral vote. Despite Jackson winning the astir electoral votes, Adams would yet triumph the presidency.

In 1965, the archetypal “Freedom Flight” from Cuba to the United States landed successful Miami. Over the ensuing 8 years, the twice-daily flights allowed much than 250,000 Cuban refugees to migrate to the United States done a associated U.S.-Cuban agreement.

In 1969, the U.S. authorities held its archetypal draught lottery for subject work since World War II.

In 1991, Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly for independency from the Soviet Union.

In 2009, President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 much U.S. troops into the warfare successful Afghanistan but promised during a code to cadets astatine the U.S. Military Academy astatine West Point to statesman withdrawals successful 18 months.

In 2017, retired wide Michael Flynn, who served arsenic President Donald Trump’s archetypal nationalist information adviser, pleaded blameworthy to lying to the FBI astir reaching retired to the Russians connected Trump’s behalf. (Trump would aboriginal pardon Flynn.)

Today’s Birthdays:

• World Golf Hall of Famer Lee Trevino is 85.
• Rock instrumentalist John Densmore (The Doors) is 80.
• Actor-singer Bette Midler is 79.
• Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., is 72.
• Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., is 66.
• Model-actor Carol Alt is 64.
• Actor Jeremy Northam is 63.
• Baseball Hall of Famer Larry Walker is 58.
• Actor Néstor Carbonell is 57.
• Actor-comedian Sarah Silverman is 54.
• Actor Riz Ahmed is 42.
• Singer-actor Janelle Monáe is 39.
• Actor Sarah Snook is 37.
• Actor Zoe Kravitz is 36.