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December 1st, 1955: What's considered the birth of the modern civil rights movement takes place in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Rosa Parks - a Black seamstress - is arrested, after she refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus.

Her arrest sparks a successful, yearlong boycott of the buses by Blacks - led by Martin Luther King, Jr.

1934: In what's then the Soviet Union, communist official Sergei Kirov is assassinated in Leningrad - what's now St. Petersburg, Russia. Kirov was an associate - and potential rival - of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who conducts a massive purge following the murder.

1963:

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Beatlemania arrives in America, as the Fab Four's first single - I Want to Hold Your Hand - is released in the U.S.

And, 1935:

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Actor and director Woody Allen - whose films include Annie Hall, and Hannah and Her Sisters - is born in New York City.

Today in History, December 1st --- ___ ___, The Associated Press.