December 1 - Happy Birthday!

Famous people with your birthday
* Bette Midler, American actress
* Lee Trevino, American golfer

* Lou Rawls, American singer
* Marie Tussaud, French creator of wax sculptures
* Richard Pryor, American actor, comedian
* Sarah Silverman, American actress and comedian
* Woody Allen, American film director, actor, and comedian

This day in history
* 1835 - Hans Christian Andersen publishes his first book of fairy tales.
* 1860 - Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in his magazine All the Year Round.
* 1913 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
* 1919 - Lady Astor becomes first female member of the British Parliament to take her seat (she had been elected to that position on November 28).
* 1952 - The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation.
* 1955 - In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
* 1958 - Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
* 1969 - Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
* 1973 - Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia.
* 1982 - At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
* 1982 - Michael Jackson releases his sixth solo album Thriller, which became the biggest selling album of all time.
Holidays and interesting facts
* World AIDS Day

Make the day meaningful (Brought to you by So what can I do?)
* Stop AIDS.