◆ On this day

December 1

5 sourced moments from December 1 in history: Portugal Broke Free of Spain in a Single Morning (1640); The First Moving Assembly Line Began Producing Ford Cars (1913); Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery (1955), plus 2 more.

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5 things happened on December 1

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1990 Technology · Engineering

The two ends of the Channel Tunnel were connected beneath the sea

Two tunneling crews, one digging from England and one from France, met under the seabed and reconnected an island to a continent.

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1959 Geography · Borders & Maps

Twelve nations signed the Antarctic Treaty

At the height of the Cold War, twelve rival countries agreed to keep a whole continent for science and peace.

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1955 Society & Economy · Politics & Law

Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery

One seamstress, one seat, and a refusal that set a 381-day boycott and the civil rights movement in motion.

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1913 Technology · Transportation

The First Moving Assembly Line Began Producing Ford Cars

On December 1, 1913, Ford set a chassis in motion past stationary workers and quietly compressed twelve hours of labour into ninety-odd minutes.

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1640 History · Modern

Portugal Broke Free of Spain in a Single Morning

On a December dawn in Lisbon, forty conspirators stormed the royal palace and ended sixty years of Spanish rule.

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