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1913 : Installation of the first assembly line at a Ford plant


On 1 December 1913, Henry Ford installed the first assembly line in one of his Ford T plant. The goal was to increase the speed of construction of a vehicle in order to lower the price for the consumer and therefore sell more. The assembly of a car took 12 hours before the installation of the assembly line and only 30 minutes afterwards.

1934 : Beginning of a 4-year Stalinist purge


On 1 December 1934, Stalin organised the murder of his main opponent in the Soviet Communist Party Politburo, Sergei Kirov. During the four years that followed, millions of people were murdered, imprisoned or deported for the most trivial reasons.

1955 : Rosa Parks launches bus boycott


On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks, an American civil rights activist, refused to give up her seat for a white man in a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, as required by the segregation laws of the city. She was arrested and then, at the instigation of Martin Luther King, a boycott of the city busses by black population (70% of users) was organised that lasted a year, until the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court States, on november 13th, 1956, which stated that the segregation laws of the city were anti-constitutional.

1958 : Fire in a school in Chicago


On 1 December 1958, a fire broke out in the basement of a Catholic school in Chicago. Protective measures against fire were virtually nonexistent, no alarm sounded and no effective evacuation was organized, as the fire spread quickly. 92 students and three nuns were killed.

1959 : The Antarctic becomes a demilitarized zone


On 1 December 1959, nations with interests in Antarctica signed a treaty banning the testing of weapons and any military activity on the continent. This policy of demilitarization of Antarctica is still in force today.

2009 : Entry into force of Lisbon Treaty


On December 1st, 2009, the Treaty of Lisbon amending the European institutions, entered into force after being ratified by all members of the European Union. The treaty changed the rules of representation by country, increasing the area of the decisions taken by qualified majority rather than unanimity, tranformed the Central Bank into a European institution and changed the functioning of the judiciary.

Actualidad del día : 01 Diciembre

World AIDS Day
December 1st is World AIDS Day. This day was established at the initiative of the World Health Organization in 1988. The theme for 2011 is: Target Zero, no new infection, no deaths due to virus and no discrimination. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS provides objectives for four years.

Cita del día : 01 Diciembre

Woody Allen
I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Cumpleaños : 01 Diciembre

Marie Tussaud, Creadora francesa de esculturas de cera (1761)
Rex Stout, Escritor americano (1886)
Georgy Zhukov, General ruso (1896)
Morris, Dibujante belgo (1923)
Martin Rodbell, Bioquímico americano, Premio Nobel de Medicina (1925)
Woody Allen, Director de cine y actor estadounidense (1935)
Pierre Arditi, Actor francés (1944)
John Densmore, Músico estadounidense (The Doors) (1944)
Tahar Ben Jelloun, Escritor marroquí (1944)
Bette Midler, Cantante y actriz estadounidense (1945)
Alain Bashung, Cantante francés (1947)
Pablo Escobar, Narcotraficante colombiano (1949)
Sebastián Piñera, Presidente de Chile (1949)
Treat Williams, Actor americano (1951)
Antoine de Caunes, Presentador de televisión, actor y director de cine francés (1953)
Cyrielle Clair, Actriz francesa (1955)
Claire Chazal, Periodista francesa (1956)
Charlene Tilton, Actriz americana (1958)
Loïck Peyron, Navegante francés (1959)
Jeremy Northam, Actor inglés (1961)
Sylvie Daigle, Patinadora canadiense (1962)
Edouard Baer, Actor y director de cine francés (1966)
Emily Mortimer, Actriz inglesa (1971)
Costinha, Futbolista portugués (1974)
Matt Fraction, Dibujante estadounidense (1975)
Brad Delson, Músico estadounidense (Linkin Park) (1977)
Christos Melissis, Futbolista griego (1982)
Emiliano Viviano, Futbolista italiano (1985)
Janelle Monáe, Cantante americana (1985)

Nos han dejado un 01 Diciembre

Go-Komatsu, Emperador de Japón (1433)
Maurice Greene, Compositor inglés (1755)
Sergey Kirov, Político sovietico (1934)
G. H. Hardy, Matemático inglés (1947)
Darío Moreno, Cantante turco (1968)
David Ben-Gurion, Político israelí (1973)
James Baldwin, Escritor americano (1987)
Stéphane Grappelli, Violinista francés (1997)
Claude Jade, Actriz francesa (2006)
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