December 1

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 800 &ndash; Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
* 1420 &ndash; Henry V of England enters Paris.
* 1640 &ndash; Portugal regains its independence from Spain.
* 1821 &ndash; The first constitution of Costa Rica is issued.
* 1822 &ndash; Emperor Pedro I of Brazil is crowned.
* 1824 &ndash; The United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner of the US Presidential Election after no candidate got an overall majority of Electoral College votes.
* 1828 &ndash; Argentine general Juan Lavalle carries out a coup against Governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution.
* 1835 &ndash; Hans Christian Andersen publishes his first book of fairy tales.
* 1864 &ndash; Great Fire of Brisbane.
* 1865 &ndash; Shaw University, the first historically black university in the Southern United States, is founded in North Carolina.
* 1885 &ndash; The fizzy drink Dr Pepper is first served at a drug store in Waco, Texas.

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1913 &ndash; Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
* 1913 &ndash; Crete is annexed by Greece.
* 1913 &ndash; The Buenos Aires Metro opens to the public.
* 1918 &ndash; Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
* 1918 &ndash; The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
* 1918 &ndash; Transylvania unites with the Kingdom of Romania.
* 1919 &ndash; Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor officially takes her seat in the House of Commons as the UK's first female Member of Parliament.
* 1923 &ndash; The dam of the Gleno Reservoir near Bergamo, Italy, bursts, killing around 600 people.
* 1934 &ndash; In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolaev at Communist Headquarters in Leningrad.
* 1941 &ndash; World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to begin war against the United States.
* 1941 &ndash; World War II: New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia signs the Administration Order No. 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
* 1948 &ndash; Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, South Australia, involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a rare book. The case remains unsolved.

### 1951 &ndash; 2000 
* 1953 &ndash; Hugh Hefner publishes the first edition of Playboy magazine.
* 1955 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
* 1958 &ndash; The *Our Lady of the Angels* school fire in Chicago kills 92 children and 3 nuns.
* 1959 &ndash; Cold War: Antarctic Treaty signed, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent.
* 1960 &ndash; Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested in Hamburg after being accused of attempted arson.
* 1961 &ndash; The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern–day Western New Guinea.
* 1963 &ndash; Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India.
* 1964 &ndash; Malta, Malawi and Zambia join the UN.
* 1965 &ndash; India's Border Security Force is founded.
* 1966 &ndash; Kurt Georg Kiesinger succeeds Ludwig Erhard as Chancellor of West Germany.
* 1969 &ndash; Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
* 1971 &ndash; Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
* 1971 &ndash; The Indian Army occupies part of Kashmir.
* 1973 &ndash; Papua New Guinea gains self–government from Australia.
* 1974 &ndash; TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport near Washington, DC, killing all 92 people on board.
* 1974 &ndash; Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of JFK International Airport outside New York City, killing all 3 crew members. There were no passengers on board at the time.
* 1976 &ndash; Angola joins the UN.
* 1981 &ndash; Inex–Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD–80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.
* 1986 &ndash; The Musee d'Orsay art museum in Paris opens.
* 1988 &ndash; Benazir Bhutto becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan.
* 1989 &ndash; A right–wing rebel group attempts to remove then–President of the Philippines Corazon Aquino from power in a failed coup attempt.
* 1990 &ndash; Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 meters beneath the seabed.
* 1991 &ndash; Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
* 2000 &ndash; Vicente Fox becomes President of Mexico.

### From 2001 
* 2006 &ndash; Felipe Calderon becomes President of Mexico.
* 2006 &ndash; A typhoon causes landslides on the Mayon Volcano in the Philippines, burying about 1,000 people.
* 2009 &ndash; The European Union's Lisbon Treaty takes effect.
* 2012 &ndash; Enrique Peña Nieto becomes President of Mexico.
* 2013 &ndash; A train derails in the Bronx, New York City, on the banks of the Hudson River, killing four people and injuring around 60.
* 2014 &ndash; The Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab rounds up and kills 36 Non–Muslims in northeastern Kenya.
* 2016 &ndash; Vajiralongkorn officially becomes King of Thailand.
* 2017 &ndash; Japanese Emperor Akihito's abdication date is set for April 30, 2019.
* 2017 &ndash; The groups are drawn for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
* 2018 &ndash; Andrés Manuel López Obrador becomes President of Mexico.
* 2019 &ndash; Ursula von der Leyen takes office as the first female President of the European Commission.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
* 1081 &ndash; Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
* 1083 &ndash; Anna Komnene, Byzantine princess and scholar (d. 1153)
* 1438 &ndash; Peter II, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1503)
* 1443 &ndash; Magdalena of France, French princess (d. 1495)
* 1521 &ndash; Takeda Shingen, Japanese daimyo (d. 1573)
* 1580 &ndash; Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637)
* 1690 &ndash; Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician (d. 1764)
* 1709 &ndash; Franz Xaver Richter, Austrian–Moravian singer, violinist, composer and conductor (d. 1789)
* 1716 &ndash; Etienne Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791)
* 1743 &ndash; Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (d. 1817)
* 1761 &ndash; Marie Tussaud, French creator of waxworks (d. 1850)
* 1766 &ndash; Nikolay Karamzin, Russian writer (d. 1826)
* 1785 &ndash; Victor de Broglie, French politician and diplomat (d. 1850)
* 1792 &ndash; Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1856)
* 1823 &ndash; Karl Schenk, Swiss politician (d. 1895)
* 1840 &ndash; Marie Bracquemond, French painter (d. 1916)
* 1844 &ndash; Alexandra of Denmark, queen consort of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1925)
* 1847 &ndash; Julia Ann Moore, American poet (d. 1920)
* 1855 &ndash; John Evans, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (d. 1943)
* 1864 &ndash; Carsten Borchgrevink, Norwegian polar explorer (d. 1934)
* 1867 &ndash; Ignacy Moscicki, Polish scientist and politician (d. 1946)
* 1869 &ndash; Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (d. 1923)
* 1873 &ndash; Valery Bryusov, Russian poet (d. 1924)
* 1873 &ndash; Viktor Chernov, Russian politician (d. 1952)
* 1884 &ndash; Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (d. 1976)
* 1886 &ndash; Rex Stout, American writer (d. 1975)
* 1895 &ndash; Henry Williamson, English writer (d. 1977)
* 1896 &ndash; Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1974)
* 1898 &ndash; Stuart Garson, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Manitoba (d. 1977)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1901 &ndash; Ilona Feher, Hungarian violinist (d. 1988)
* 1901 &ndash; Jane Gray, Scottish–Australian supercentenarian (d. 2014)
* 1905 &ndash; Clarence Zener, American physicist (d. 1993)
* 1910 &ndash; Alicia Markova, British ballet dancer (d. 2004)
* 1911 &ndash; Franz Binder, Austrian footballer (d. 1989)
* 1911 &ndash; Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (d. 1984)
* 1911 &ndash; Calvin Griffith, Canadian–American businessman (d. 1999)
* 1912 &ndash; Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (d. 1986)
* 1913 &ndash; Mary Martin, American actress (d. 1990)
* 1916 &ndash; Wan Li, Chinese politician (d. 2015)
* 1922 &ndash; Vsevolod Bobrov, Soviet ice hockey player (d. 1979)
* 1923 &ndash; Morris, Belgian cartoonist (d. 2001)
* 1923 &ndash; Stansfield Turner, American admiral (d. 2018)
* 1925 &ndash; Martin Rodbell, American scientist (d. 1998)
* 1926 &ndash; Keith Michell, Australian actor (d. 2015)
* 1928 &ndash; Emily McLaughlin, American actress (d. 1991)
* 1928 &ndash; Malachi Throne, American actor (d. 2013)
* 1929 &ndash; Alfred Moisiu, former President of Albania
* 1929 &ndash; Karl Otto Pöhl, German economist (d. 2014)
* 1929 &ndash; David Doyle, American actor (d. 1997)
* 1930 &ndash; Marie Bashir, 37th Governor of New South Wales
* 1930 &ndash; Matt Monro, English singer (d. 1985)
* 1931 &ndash; Jimmy Lyons, American saxophonist (d. 1986)
* 1931 &ndash; George Maxwell Richards, President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2018)
* 1933 &ndash; Fujiko Fujio, Japanese writer and illustrator (d. 1996)
* 1933 &ndash; Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (d. 2006)
* 1933 &ndash; Violette Verdy, French ballerina (d. 2016)
* 1933 &ndash; James Wolfensohn, 9th President of the World Bank
* 1934 &ndash; Billy Paul, American singer (d. 2016)
* 1936 &ndash; María Romilda Servini, Argentine lawyer and judge
* 1936 &ndash; Igor Rodionov, Russian general and politician (d. 2014)
* 1937 &ndash; Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former President of Latvia
* 1938 &ndash; Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani politician, Governor of Sindh (d. 2017)
* 1939 &ndash; Lee Trevino, American golf player
* 1940 &ndash; Richard Pryor, American actor and comedian (d. 2005)
* 1942 &ndash; Mohamed Kamel Amr, Egyptian diplomat
* 1943 &ndash; Finn E. Kydland, Norwegian economist
* 1943 &ndash; Kenny Moore, American runner and journalist
* 1944 &ndash; Pierre Arditi, French actor
* 1944 &ndash; A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician (d. 2017)
* 1944 &ndash; Michael Hagee, American general
* 1944 &ndash; Tahar Ben Jelloun, Moroccan–French poet
* 1944 &ndash; Daniel Pennac, French writer
* 1944 &ndash; John Densmore, American musician
* 1945 &ndash; Bette Midler, American singer and actress
* 1946 &ndash; Gilbert O'Sullivan, Irish singer
* 1947 &ndash; Alain Bashung, French singer (d. 2009)
* 1948 &ndash; Luciano Re Cecconi, Italian footballer (d. 1977)
* 1948 &ndash; Neil Warnock, English footballer and manager
* 1948 &ndash; Themba Dlamini, Prime Minister of Swaziland
* 1948 &ndash; Sarfraz Nawaz, Pakistani cricketer
* 1949 &ndash; Pablo Escobar, Colombian druglord (d. 1993)
* 1949 &ndash; Sebastian Pinera, President of Chile; 2010 – 2014, and since 2018
* 1950 &ndash; Ueli Maurer, Swiss politician
* 1950 &ndash; Seiichi Sakiya, Japanese footballer
* 1950 &ndash; Keith Thibodeaux, American actor and drummer

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Jaco Pastorius, American musician (d. 1987)
* 1951 &ndash; Treat Williams, American actor
* 1952 &ndash; Stephen Poliakoff, British playwright and television dramatist
* 1952 &ndash; Ellen McLain, American opera singer and voice actress
* 1952 &ndash; Pegi Young, American singer, songwriter, environmentalist, educator and philanthropist (d. 2019)
* 1954 &ndash; Viv Albertine, Australian–British singer and songwriter
* 1954 &ndash; Medha Patkar, Indian activist
* 1954 &ndash; François Van der Elst, Belgian footballer (d. 2017)
* 1956 &ndash; Julee Cruise, American singer-songwriter and actress
* 1956 &ndash; Billy Stark, Scottish footballer
* 1957 &ndash; Chris Poland, American guitarist
* 1957 &ndash; Deep Roy, Kenyan actor
* 1958 &ndash; Javier Aguirre, Mexican footballer and manager
* 1958 &ndash; Candace Bushnell, American author, journalist and television producer
* 1958 &ndash; Lisa Fischer, American singer-songwriter
* 1958 &ndash; Charlene Tilton, American actress
* 1959 &ndash; Billy Childish, English singer and musician
* 1960 &ndash; Carol Alt, American supermodel
* 1961 &ndash; Jeremy Northam, British actor
* 1961 &ndash; Armin Meiwes, German cannibal and murderer
* 1962 &ndash; Pamela McGee, American basketball player and coach
* 1963 &ndash; Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lankan cricketer and politician
* 1964 &ndash; Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer
* 1965 &ndash; Peter Greste, Australian journalist
* 1966 &ndash; Andrew Adamson, New Zealand movie director
* 1966 &ndash; Katherine LaNasa, American actress
* 1966 &ndash; Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player
* 1967 &ndash; Nestor Carbonell, American actor, director and screenwriter
* 1968 &ndash; Justin Chadwick, English actor and director
* 1968 &ndash; Anders Holmertz, Swedish swimmer
* 1968 &ndash; Stephan Beckenbauer, German footballer (d. 2015)
* 1970 &ndash; Sarah Silverman, American comedienne
* 1971 &ndash; Emily Mortimer, English actress
* 1971 &ndash; Mika Pohjola, Finnish jazz pianist and composer
* 1971 &ndash; Melanie Peres, German–Israeli model, actress and singer
* 1974 &ndash; Costinha, Portuguese footballer
* 1974 &ndash; Simon Donnelly, Scottish footballer and manager
* 1974 &ndash; Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, American keyboardist and producer (d. 2014)

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Laura Ling, American journalist
* 1976 &ndash; Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (d. 1998)
* 1977 &ndash; Brad Delson, American guitarist and producer
* 1977 &ndash; Akiva Schaffer, American actor, rapper, director, producer and screenwriter
* 1979 &ndash; Shinji Murai, Japanese footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Park Hyo-shin, South Korean singer–songwriter
* 1982 &ndash; Alfredo Pacheco, El Salvadorean footballer (d. 2015)
* 1985 &ndash; Emiliano Viviano, Italian footballer
* 1985 &ndash; John Coughlin, American figure skater
* 1985 &ndash; Chanel Preston, American pornographic actress
* 1986 &ndash; DeSean Jackson, American football player
* 1988 &ndash; Jay Simpson, English footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Zoe Kravitz, American actress
* 1989 &ndash; Barry Bannan, Scottish footballer
* 1990 &ndash; Chanel Iman, American model
* 1991 &ndash; Sun Yang, Chinese swimmer
* 1991 &ndash; Dion Waiters, American basketball player
* 1992 &ndash; Masahudu Alhassan, Ghanaian footballer
* 1992 &ndash; Marco van Ginkel, Dutch footballer
* 1995 &ndash; Eva Boto, Slovenian singer
* 2001 &ndash; Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan
* 2001 &ndash; Savannah McReynolds, American actress
* 2001 &ndash; Alice Robinson, New Zealand alpine ski racer

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 660 &ndash; Saint Eligius (b. c. 588)
* 1135 &ndash; Henry I, King of England (b. 1068)
* 1241 &ndash; Isabella of England, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1214)
* 1377 &ndash; King Magnus II of Sweden (b. 1316)
* 1433 &ndash; Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (b. 1377)
* 1455 &ndash; Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor (b. 1378)
* 1521 &ndash; Pope Leo X (b. 1475)
* 1530 &ndash; Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy (b. 1480)
* 1580 &ndash; Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)
* 1581 &ndash; Alexander Briant, English priest, martyr and saint (b. 1556)
* 1581 &ndash; Edmund Campion, English priest, martyr and saint (b. 1540)
* 1581 &ndash; Ralph Sherwin, English priest, martyr and saint (b. 1550)
* 1602 &ndash; Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese warlord (b. 1582)
* 1633 &ndash; Isabella Clara Eugenia, Spanish consort of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (b. 1566)
* 1640 &ndash; Miguel de Vasconcelos, Portuguese politician (b. 1590)
* 1660 &ndash; Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist (b. 1592)
* 1750 &ndash; Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer (b. 1671)
* 1755 &ndash; Maurice Greene, English composer (b. 1696)
* 1825 &ndash; Tsar Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)
* 1830 &ndash; Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
* 1864 &ndash; William L. Dayton, American politician (b. 1807)
* 1866 &ndash; George Everest, Welsh surveyor (b. 1790)
* 1884 &ndash; William Swainson, English–New Zealand lawyer and politician (b. 1809)
* 1886 &ndash; Emil Hartwich, German lawyer (b. 1843)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1913 &ndash; Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and writer (b. 1864)
* 1914 &ndash; Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (b. 1840)
* 1916 &ndash; Charles de Foucauld, French priest (b. 1858)
* 1917 &ndash; John January, American soccer player (b. 1882)
* 1934 &ndash; Sergey Kirov, Soviet politician (b. 1886)
* 1941 &ndash; Alva B. Adams, American politician (b. 1875)
* 1943 &ndash; Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian (b. 1862)
* 1947 &ndash; Aleister Crowley, English occultist and writer (b. 1875)
* 1947 &ndash; G.H. Hardy, English mathematician (b. 1877)
* 1954 &ndash; Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter and publisher (b. 1898)
* 1964 &ndash; J. B. S. Haldane, English–Indian geneticist (b. 1892)
* 1964 &ndash; Charilaos Vasilakos, Greek runner (b. 1877)
* 1968 &ndash; Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer, composer and conductor (b. 1887)
* 1969 &ndash; Magic Sam, American guitarist and singer (b. 1937)
* 1972 &ndash; Antonio Segni, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1891)
* 1973 &ndash; David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
* 1975 &ndash; Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American writer (b. 1906)
* 1981 &ndash; Russ Manning, American comic book artist (b. 1929)
* 1987 &ndash; James Baldwin, American writer (b. 1924)
* 1987 &ndash; Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager (b. 1918)
* 1990 &ndash; Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian politician and diplomat (b. 1900)
* 1991 &ndash; George J. Stigler, American economist (b. 1911)
* 1993 &ndash; Ray Gillen, American singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
* 1995 &ndash; Maxwell R. Thurman, American general (b. 1931)
* 1997 &ndash; Stephane Grappelli, French violinist (b. 1908)
* 1997 &ndash; Endicott Peabody, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1920)
* 1998 &ndash; Bertil Nordahl, Swedish footballer (b. 1917)

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Roger Leach, British actor (b. 1948)
* 2004 &ndash; Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
* 2005 &ndash; Jack Colvin, American actor (b. 1934)
* 2006 &ndash; Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
* 2007 &ndash; Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (b. 1929)
* 2008 &ndash; Mikel Laboa, Basque singer and songwriter (b. 1934)
* 2010 &ndash; Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer (b. 1914)
* 2011 &ndash; Christa Wolf, German writer (b. 1929)
* 2012 &ndash; Mitchell Cole, English footballer (b. 1985)
* 2012 &ndash; Phil Taylor, English footballer (b. 1917)
* 2012 &ndash; Jovan Belcher, American football player (b. 1987)
* 2013 &ndash; Heinrich Boere, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1922)
* 2013 &ndash; Lino Grech, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
* 2013 &ndash; Edward Heffron, American World War II veteran (b. 1923)
* 2014 &ndash; Sita Murt, Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman (b. 1946)
* 2014 &ndash; Mario Abramovich, Argentine violinist and composer (b. 1926)
* 2014 &ndash; Roberto Sagastume Pinto, Guatemalan politician (b. 1944)
* 2015 &ndash; Joseph Engelberger, American engineer (b. 1925)
* 2015 &ndash; Robert E. Glennen, American academic (b. 1933)
* 2015 &ndash; Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (b. 1930)
* 2017 &ndash; Adarsh Sein Anand, former Chief Justice of India (b. 1936)
* 2017 &ndash; Philipp Graf Lerchenfeld, German politician (b. 1952)
* 2017 &ndash; Fredy Schmidtke, German cyclist (b. 1961)
* 2017 &ndash; Arif Dirlik, Turkish–born American historian (b. 1940)
* 2017 &ndash; Les Whitten, American investigative reporter (b. 1928)
* 2018 &ndash; Ken Berry, American actor (b. 1933)
* 2018 &ndash; Ennio Fantastichini, Italian actor (b. 1955)
* 2018 &ndash; Anwar Hossain, Bangladeshi photographer and cinematographer (b. 1948)
* 2018 &ndash; Scott Stearney, American Vice Admiral (b. 1960)
* 2018 &ndash; Stefanie Tücking, German television presenter (b. 1962)
* 2018 &ndash; Shoucheng Zhang, Chinese–American physicist (b. 1963)
* 2019 &ndash; Henri Biancheri, French footballer (b. 1932)
* 2019 &ndash; Shelley Morrison, American actress (b. 1936)
* 2019 &ndash; Lil Bub, American–bred celebrity cat (b. 2011)
* 2019 &ndash; Paul Sirba, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1960)
* 2019 &ndash; Pat Sullivan, American football player (b. 1950)

## Holidays and observances 
* World AIDS Day
* Portugal – Restoration of Independence Day
* Costa Rica – Military Abolition Day
* Romania – The National Day of Romania, Union of Transylvania with Romania
* Angola's Pioneers' Day
* Australia – First day of Summer
* Iceland – Self–governance Day
* Teachers' Day (Panama)
* Chad – Freedom and Democracy Day
* Mexico – Traditionally the date the President is sworn into office every six years, last in 2012
* Saint Eligius in Western Christianity