December 1: Stalin's Great Purge, Rosa Parks Arrested and the 1st Sherlock Holmes Story

On This Day in History December 1, 2020 Historical Events 1913  Ford Motor Company institutes world's 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford 1934  Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov is assassinated and Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38 1955  Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama 1988  Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan) More Historical Events Famous Birthdays Bette Midler 75th Birthday Georgy Zhukov (1896 - 1974) Pablo Escobar (1949 - 1993) Richard Pryor (1940 - 2005) More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths David Ben-Gurion (1886 - 1973) Leo X (1475 - 1521) More Famous Deaths December 1: How the First Sherlock Holmes Story was Sold for a Song How did an English publisher most famous for giving the world Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management come to publish the first Sherlock Holmes story? Read the Article You Might Like Take Our Weekly Quiz You received this email because you opted in at our website, OnThisDay.com Update Your Preferences | Unsubscribe © 2020 OnThisDay.com 2 Acacia Place, Tauranga 3110, New Zealand