Daily Calendar for Sunday, December 1, 2024

Advent Sunday

“Advent Sunday is a liturgical period preceding Christmas, beginning in Western churches on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and observed by many as a season of prayer, fasting, and penitence. Advent Sunday is also called the First Sunday of Advent by Western Christian Churches. It is the first day of the liturgical year and the start of the season of Advent.”

Month of December

December comes from the Latin word decem, meaning “ten,” because it was the tenth month of the early Roman calendar. Read more about everything happening in December.

Born

William Henry Holmes (archaeologist) – 1846
Rex Stout (novelist) – 1886
David Fitzgerald Doyle (actor) – 1929
Lee Trevino (golfer) – 1939
Richard Pryor (comedian & actor) – 1940
Stephen Benton (American scientist) – 1941
Bette Midler (singer & actress) – 1945
Brad Delson (guitarist of Linkin Park) – 1977
Princess Aiko (first child of Japan’s Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako) – 2001

Died

David Ben-Gurion (1st Prime Minister of Israel) – 1973
James Baldwin (author) – 1987
Eugene Bob Gregoire (first design chief of Ford, creator of the Lincoln Continental) – 2002
Capt. Edward L. Beach (author of Run Silent, Run Deep ) – 2002
Sandra Day O'Connor (first female U.S. Supreme Court justice) – 2023

Events

New York’s Erie Canal closed due to weather. – 1831
The Christmas Club savings account began – 1909
First drive-in gasoline service station opened, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – 1913
Lt. Harry Colebourn officially donated Winnie (the bear Christopher Robin Milne named his bear after) to the London Zoo – 1919
First flight of helium-filled blimp (C-7), between Virginia and D.C. – 1921
Dupree Gardens opened, Land O’ Lakes, Florida – 1940
Nationwide gasoline rationing went into effect in the United States – 1942
Rosa Parks, a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger – 1955
First 12 nations signed the Antarctic Treaty – 1959
The Antarctic Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., guaranteeing peaceful international use of the continent – 1959
News anchor, Tom Brokaw, signed off after 23 years of bringing news to viewers – 2004
Astronaut Bob Thirsk returned to Earth after 6 months on the International Space Station – 2009

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The Erie Canal was closed due to weather – 1831
The temperature at Kipp, Montana, rose 80 degrees over the course of the day – 1896
-25.6 degrees F, Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta – 1990

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