DECEMBER 1
1891:James Naismith creates the game of basketball by hanging up two
half-bushel peach baskets in the gym of the International YMCA Training
School in Springfield, Mass. Naismith also outlines 13 rules for his new
game, which are still in use today.
1955: Rosa Parks,
a 42-year-old African American seamstress, refuses to give up her seat
to a white man on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala., and is promptly
arrested. Parks' act of defiance inspires a boycott of the bus system,
and, a year later, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide against racial
segregation laws for buses.
1999: An international team of researchers announce that, for the first time, the DNA sequence of an entire human chromosome has been sequenced. Chromosome 22, the second-smallest human chromosome, consists of 33.5 million base pairs of DNA.
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