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This is a list of selected December 1 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
1640John IV was declared King of Portugal, resulting in the Portuguese Restoration War with Spain. refimprove section
1913 – The Buenos Aires Metro in Argentina, the first underground railway system in Latin America and in the Southern Hemisphere, began operations. refimprove section
1934 – Soviet politician Sergey Kirov was assassinated at the Smolny Institute in Leningrad. refimprove sections, outdated
1941 – The Civil Air Patrol, the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force, was founded. outdated
1958 – The colony of Ubangi-Shari became an autonomous territory within the French Community and took the name Central African Republic. unreferenced sections
1958 – A fire in the Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago killed 92 students and three nuns. tagged with {{refimprove}}
1990Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France met 40 metres (131 ft) beneath the English Channel seabed. unbalanced

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Notes

December 1: World AIDS Day; Great Union Day in Romania (1918)

2004 Gävle goat

  • 1966 – The first Gävle goat (example pictured), a Swedish Yule Goat tradition, was constructed in Gävle and then burned to the ground that same night.
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