Today is Monday, Dec. 1, the 335th day of 2025. There are 30 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Dec. 1, 1991, Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly to end Soviet rule and declare independence.
Also on this date:
In 1824, the presidential election was thrown to the U.S. House of Representatives after none of the candidates — John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay — won a majority of the electoral vote. Although Jackson had the most electoral votes, Adams ultimately became president.
In 1955, Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, after she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus. Her arrest sparked a yearlong bus boycott and helped fuel the U.S. civil rights movement.
In 1965, the first “Freedom Flight” from Cuba landed in Miami. Over the next eight years, twice-daily flights carried more than 250,000 Cuban refugees to the United States under a joint U.S.-Cuban agreement.
In 1969, the U.S. held its first draft lottery for military service since World War II.
In 2009, President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 more U.S. troops into Afghanistan but told cadets at West Point he planned to begin withdrawals in 18 months.
In 2017, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who briefly served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about contacts with Russia. (He was later pardoned by Trump.)
In 2020, the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, which had played a key role in astronomical discoveries for more than half a century, collapsed.
In 2023, Israel’s war with Hamas, which began in October, erupted again minutes after a weeklong truce expired as Israeli airstrikes struck houses and buildings in the Gaza Strip.
Today’s Birthdays: World Golf Hall of Famer Lee Trevino is 86; rock musician John Densmore (The Doors) is 81; actor-singer Bette Midler is 80; model-actor Carol Alt is 65; actor Jeremy Northam is 64; Baseball Hall of Famer Larry Walker is 59; actor Néstor Carbonell is 58; actor-comedian Sarah Silverman is 55; actor Riz Ahmed is 43; singer-actor Janelle Monáe is 40; actor Sarah Snook is 38; actor Zoe Kravitz is 37.
