Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 1

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 * 1577 – Francis Walsingham (pictured), Elizabeth I of England's principal secretary and spymaster, was knighted.
 * 1822 – Pedro I was crowned the first emperor of Brazil, seven weeks after his reign began on his 24th birthday.
 * 1934 – Soviet politician Sergei Kirov was assassinated at the Smolny Institute in Leningrad.
 * 1941 – The Civil Air Patrol, the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force, was founded.
 * 1948 – In "one of Australia's most profound mysteries", the body of an unidentified man was found on Somerton beach in Adelaide, a case which remains unsolved.
 * 1953 – American men's magazine Playboy was founded in Chicago by Hugh Hefner and his associates.
 * 1955 – In a key event in the civil rights movement, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott.
 * 1958 – The musical Flower Drum Song by Rodgers and Hammerstein premiered on Broadway.
 * 1959 – Twelve countries signed the Antarctic Treaty, the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War, banning military activity in the Antarctic and setting the continent aside as a scientific preserve.
 * 1966 – The Pit, one of U.S. college basketball's premier arenas, opened on the campus of the University of New Mexico.
 * 1966 – The first Gävle goat, a Swedish Yule goat tradition, was constructed in Gävle and then burned to the ground on New Year's Eve.
 * 1991 – A referendum held to ratify the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine passed with more than 92 percent of the vote.
 * 2019 – Vivianne Miedema scored six goals and had four assists for Arsenal W.F.C. in their 11–1 victory over Bristol City W.F.C. that broke the record for the most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match.
 * Born/died: | Muhammad III of Alamut |d|1255| Giovanni Morone |d|1580| Florence Petty |b|1870| Archie MacLaren |b|1871|  Jeni Bojilova-Pateva |b|1878| William Swainson |d|1884| Jack Crawford |b|1886|  Candace Bushnell |b|1958| Jo Walton |b|1964|J. B. S. Haldane |d|1964 | Anna Roosevelt Halsted |d|1975|