December 1: This Day in History
Featured Fact, 1955:
Rosa Parks defies Alabama law by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. She is arrested -- sparking the black community's year-long boycott of the Montgomery buses.
Also Today:
1887: The presidential election between John Q. Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford and Henry Clay is turned over to the House of Representative due to the lack of an electoral-vote majority.
1887: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes appears for the first time in print in "A Study in Scarlet."
1989: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev visits the Vatican in Rome and meets with Pope John Paul II. He is the first Soviet leader to ever meet with a pope, and the conference signals the symbolic end of 72 years of the Soviet government's official commitment to atheism.
