1 December

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 1 December:

1. Madame Marie Tussaud, Swiss-born French waxworks modeller was born on this date in 1761. She was imprisoned for being a royalist during the French Revolution and sentenced to execution by guillotine. However, her talents in wax meant she was more useful alive, to make death masks of the victims of the guillotine, including Marie Antoinette, Marat, and Robespierre. In 1800, separated from her husband, she toured Britain with her waxworks, eventually setting up a permanent exhibition in London.
2. In 1135, Henry I, King of England, died "of a surfeit of lampreys".
3. In 1918, Iceland declared its independence from Denmark. Iceland had been a part of Denmark since the 14th century.
4. It was on this date in 1955 that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her act of civil defiance triggered a year-long boycott of city buses by African Americans, and began the historic career of Martin Luther King Jr.
5. The Great Train Robbery, the world's first western movie, was released on this date in 1903.
6. In 1953, the first issue of Hugh Heffner's Playboy magazine was published, featuring Marilyn Monroe as the centre spread.
7. In 1990, British and French workers digging the Channel Tunnel between their countries finally met after knocking out a passage in a service tunnel large enough to walk through and shake hands.
8. In 2000 in Paignton, Anthony Newton pushed a Twiglet into an off licence cashier's ribs as if it was a gun, and stole £500. He later confessed to police, and got 4 years in jail.
9. 1929 The game of Bingo was invented by Edwin S Lowe on this date in 1929. Bingo can be traced back to a game called Lotto, played in Italy in 1530. The name bingo comes from a corruption of "Beano", the name of a form of bingo played in the United States in the 1920s, so called because beans were used to cover the numbers.
10. In 1986, the world's most expensive hotel suite (to date) was first offered to visitors at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. The eight-room accommodation included four fireplaces, three bedrooms and a library with a secret passage for $20,000 a night.

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