Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on the Bus…..
December 1, 1955…..
Rosa Parks had initially seated herself in the black section of the bus. However, when the whites-only section became filled, the bus driver declared the section she was sitting in was now whites-only and asked her and several other blacks to move. The other blacks moved, but Parks refused prompting her arrest. Her arrest led to a year-long city bus boycott which then led to ruling that bus segregation was unconstitutional. While some claim she wouldn’t give up her seat because she was tired, Parks said, “I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day … No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
Major Nelson Marries Jeannie…..
December 2, 1969…..
Major Nelson and Jeannie get married, on the TV show I Dream of Jeannie. Only one problem, NASA wants photos of the wedding, but genies don’t photograph.
However, the writers seem to have forgotten that she was shown photographed in other episodes, including an episode where she was shown photographed in a newspaper and one where she was filmed for a car commercial.
Bhopal Gas Leak…..
December 3, 1984…..
A gas leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India kills 3,787 people, with 558,125 injuries. In 1989, Union Carbide is ordered, by the Indian Supreme Court, to pay $470,000,000 in restitution.