Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 1

December 1: Union Day in Romania (1918), World AIDS Day (awareness ribbon pictured)

• 1640 - John IV was declared King of Portugal, resulting in a war with Spain.

• 1822 - Pedro I was crowned the first Emperor of Brazil.

• 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.

Recent days: November 30 – November 29 – November 28

More anniversaries:

• November 30
• December 1
• December 2