WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2021

1640-Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule

1944-Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra premieres

1944-Prokofjev's 8th Piano Sonata premieres

1959-The first color photograph of Earth received from outer space

1964-Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks to J. Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign

1973-Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2 million in a year

1976-Angola admitted to U.N.

1978-President Carter more than doubles national park system size

1984-France conducts nuclear test

1986-Musee d'Orsay opens in Paris

1988-Benazir Bhutto named 1st female PM of a Muslim country (Pakistan)

1989-East Germany drops the communist monopoly from its constitution

1989-USSR President Mikhail S. Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican

1990-Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks

1990-Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia hold their 1st joint meeting

1991-Pediatric AIDS Awareness Week declared in U.S.

1991-Ukranian people vote for independence

1991-U.S. 75th manned space mission, "STS 44" Atlantis 10, lands

1991-Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as President of Kazakhstan

1994-Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere announce their separation

1994-Ernesto Zedillo inaugurated as president of Mexico

1997-Westinghouse formally changes its name to CBS