DECEMBER 1
1988:The World Health Organization inaugurates the first World AIDS Day to promote awareness of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and to encourage prevention of the global disease. The initiative, first conceived by WHO public information officers James W. Bunn and Thomas Netter, is among the longest-running public health awareness events in history.
1955: African American seamstress and NAACP activist Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man aboard a city bus in Montgomery, Ala. Although Parks is arrested, her actions spark the year-long Montgomery bus boycott and eventually the 1956 Supreme Court decision that will desegregate public transportation.
1990: Beneath the English Channel, Englishman Graham Fagg and Frenchman Philippe Cozette break through a service tunnel of the Channel Tunnel. The project is completed four years later with British Queen Elizabeth II and French President François Mitterrand participating in the opening ceremonies.
1955: African American seamstress and NAACP activist Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man aboard a city bus in Montgomery, Ala. Although Parks is arrested, her actions spark the year-long Montgomery bus boycott and eventually the 1956 Supreme Court decision that will desegregate public transportation.
1990: Beneath the English Channel, Englishman Graham Fagg and Frenchman Philippe Cozette break through a service tunnel of the Channel Tunnel. The project is completed four years later with British Queen Elizabeth II and French President François Mitterrand participating in the opening ceremonies.
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