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• ...that the schooners San Antonio (pictured), San Bernard and San Jacinto of the Second Texas Navy were originally built in 1836 as Baltimore Clippers and fitted out for use in the slave trade in Havana?
• ...that when American football center Rod Payne broke his right wrist during a Michigan Wolverines football game, he started snapping the ball with his left hand?

• ...that Ricord's Iguana (Cyclura ricordi) of Hispaniola is the only known species of rock iguana to coexist with the Rhinoceros Iguana (Cyclura cornuta)?

• ...that Simonsbath on Exmoor is the largest parish in Somerset covering 56 square miles (145.0 km²) but only has 75 houses?

• ...that after the American defeat at the Battle of Canyon Creek the soldiers of Samuel D. Sturgis were forced to slaughter and eat their tired horses?

• ...that Rev. Robert Shields maintained a diary chronicling every five minutes of his life for 25 years from 1972 until 1997, and only slept two hours at a time so he could record his dreams?

• ...that HMS Drake was so ill-prepared for action against John Paul Jones's Ranger that musket balls had to be passed round in a hat during the North Channel naval duel, 24 April 1778?
  

• A hostage crisis at Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire, USA ends peacefully.
• Protesters in Sudan demand the execution of a British school teacher for insulting Muhammad after the naming of the class teddy bear after the Islamic prophet.
• The wreckage of an Atlasjet plane carrying 56 passengers is found near Isparta in central Turkey, with no survivors.
• Amidst the country's state of emergency, Pervez Musharraf (pictured) is sworn in as President of Pakistan for a second term, this time as a civilian.
• Mutinying soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes, who had barricaded themselves in a luxury hotel, surrender as the Armed Forces of the Philippines begin an assault.

December 1: Union Day in Romania (1918), World AIDS Day (awareness ribbon pictured).

• 1640 – John IV was declared King of Portugal, resulting in the Portuguese Restoration War with Spain.
• 1824 – As dictated by the Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the House of Representatives selected John Quincy Adams as the winner of the U.S. presidential election after none of the candidates received a majority of the total electoral college votes.
• 1955 – African-American Civil Rights Movement: Seamstress Rosa Parks was arrested for violating the racial segregation laws of Montgomery, Alabama, after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, precipitating the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• 1959 – Twelve countries signed the Antarctic Treaty, the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War, banning military activity in Antarctica and setting the continent aside as a scientific preserve.
• 1990 – Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France met 40 metres (131 ft) beneath the English Channel seabed.

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