Today is Monday, Dec. 1, the 335th day of 2025. There are 30 days left in the year.

On Dec. 1, 1991, Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union.

In 1824, the presidential election was turned over to the U.S. House of Representatives after none of the candidates (John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay) won more than 50% of the electoral vote. Despite Jackson winning the most electoral votes, Adams would ultimately win the presidency.

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In 1955, Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The incident sparked a yearlong boycott of the city’s buses and helped fuel the U.S. civil rights movement.

In 1965, the first “Freedo

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