December 1 ⇒Back
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1859 - ◆Saigo Takamori marries Aikana.
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1919 - ◆"Military Engineering School" is opened (Chiba Prefecture).
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1969 - ◆The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II (Vietnam War).
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1969 - ◆The first legislation to limit aircraft noise levels at airports is introduced (US).
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1969 - ◆The first automatic teller machine in Japan is installed in the Sumitomo Bank.
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1969 - ◆Doraemon manga first appears in children's monthly magazines (Japan).
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The Doraemon manga appeared on the same day with the first installation of the automatic teller machine. It is highly probable that the Japanese banking industry took advantage of the manga for its campaign on the promotion of the computer banking. In fact the Doraemon character was used by some major banks for their image characters.
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1984 - ★The Controlled Impact Demonstration is carried out.
It was a joint project between NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) aimed at acquiring data, as well as demonstrating and testing new technologies, with the intent of improving occupant crash survivability, by crashing a Boeing 720 aircraft.
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2001 - ▲(birth) "Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan".
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2005 - ▲The U.S. Navy reveals its plan to deploy supercarrier George Washington to Japan.
George Washington will replace USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) as the forward-deployed carrier at Yokosuka Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan, becoming the first nuclear-powered surface warship permanently stationed outside the continental U.S.
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2005 - ▲A seven-year-old girl is kidnapped and found dead the next day in Nikko, Japan.
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2009 - ◆The Treaty of Lisbon comes into effect.
The treaty amends the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, which together comprise the constitutional basis of European Union.
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2018 - ★(death) "Senior Bush", "US President". (timeline)
(US time November 30, 2018: Japan time December 1, 2018)
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December 31, 1929 - ◆The flag of India is hoisted by Congress President Jawaharlal Nehru on the banks of the Ravi river in Lahore, modern-day Pakistan.
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December 26, 1935 - ▲Saito Makoto becomes Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (Japan).
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December 26, 1935 - ▲(birth) Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo.
He is a dictator for 38 years, the longest-period dictator in Africa.
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January 8, 1989 - ★Beginning of Japanese Heisei period.
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January 20, 1996 - ▲Yasser Arafat is re-elected president of the Palestinian Authority.
The day is December 1, 1995 in the Japanese calendar and is the kanreki 60th birthday of Togo's President Gnassingbe Eyadema (December 1, 1935 in the Japanese calendar).
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