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Person born on December 01
1699 - Rafiudrajat - Tenth Mughal Emperor.
1878 - George Sidney Arundel - was an Englishman who dedicated his life for the country of India.
1885 - Kaka Kalelkar - India's famous Gandhian freedom fighter, educationist, journalist and author.
1886 - Raja Mahendra Pratap - India's true patriot, revolutionary, journalist and social reformer.
1903 - Anant Singh - was one of the famous revolutionaries of India.
1924 - Major Shaitan Singh - Indian soldier was awarded the Param Vir Chakra.
1931 - Gurukumar Balachandra Parulkar - famous Indian physician.
1954 - Medha Patkar - Famous social worker.
1954 - Rakesh Bedi - Famous Indian character actor.
Died on 01 December
1974 - Sucheta Kriplani - Indian woman freedom fighter and Indian politician.
1985 - Dada Dharmadhikari - Famous freedom fighter, writer and Gandhian thinker.
1990 - Vijayalakshmi Pandit - sister of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and female freedom fighter.
2015 - Jim Loskatoff - American basketball player.
2019 - Senior journalist Bhaskar Menon died of a heart attack.
2020 - Abhay Ganpatrai Bhardwaj - was an Indian 'Lawyer' politician and Member of Rajya Sabha.
Important Occasions and Celebrations of December 01
- Rosa Parks Day.
- world AIDS Day.
- National Pie Day.
- Antarctica Day.
- Nagaland Foundation Day.
- Raja Mahendra Pratap Jayanti.
- National Package Protection Day.
- Sri Kaka Kalelkar Jayanti.
- (outside) the day with the arts day.
- National Eat a Red Apple Day.
- Bifocals on Monitor Liberation Day.
- World AIDS Awareness Day (WHO).
- Border Security Force (BSF) Raising Day (1965).
- Indian Navy Week (from 01 to 07 December).
- Major Shri Shaitan Singh (Labh Param Vir Chakra) Jayanti.
Important Events of December 01
1640 - Portugal becomes independent from Spain after 60 years of slavery.
1933 - Air service started between Kolkata and Dhaka.
1959 - Twelve nations sign a treaty for the peaceful scientific use of Antarctica.
1959 - The first color photo of Earth was taken from outer space.
1963 - Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India.
1965 - Establishment of Border Security Force.
1974 – A Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville, Virginia, killing 92.
1976 - Angola becomes a member of the United Nations.
1976 - General Ziaur Rahman declared himself President of Bangladesh.
1987 - Dr. Najibullah elected president under the new constitution of Afghanistan.
1988 - End of Emergency in Pakistan and President Ghulam Ishaq Khan appoints Benazir Bhutto as Prime Minister.
1988 - Cyclone kills 596 people in Bangladesh, leaving five lakh people homeless.
1991 - AIDS Awareness Day started.
1992 - Establishment of diplomatic relations between South Korea and South Africa.
1997 - Chechnya is declared a prohibited area for foreign nationals.
2000 - The United Nations Security Council endorses an arms embargo on the Taliban.
2001 – Anti-Taliban tribesmen capture Kandahar Air Port in Afghanistan.
2002 - Australia won the Ashes Test series over England for the eighth time in a row.
2006 - Nepal accepts the new national anthem, which does not even contain the name of the king.
2007 - Elang Jie Lin of China is crowned Miss World at the Miss World pageant held in Sanya, China.
2008 - Shivchandra Jha, former Speaker of the Bihar Legislative Assembly, passed away.
2008 - Indian billiards player Pankaj Advani won the 75th national billiards and snooker senior title.
2019 - India becomes the first country in the world to completely digitize the entire process of Haj pilgrimage.
2019 - Nine people, including two children, died in a plane crash in America.
2019 – Evacuation of thousands of people begins due to strong storm - Kammuri in the Philippines.
2020 - The Indian Navy successfully test-fired the anti-ship version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
2020 - Department of Science and Technology (DST) in association with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) organized Curtain Razor to announce the 26th edition of Technology Summit 2020.
2020 – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and India signed a $132.8 million loan to strengthen Meghalaya's electricity distribution sector.
