Today is Sunday, Dec. 1, the 335th day of
2013. There are 30 days left in the year.

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black
seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a
white man on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus.
Mrs. Parks was arrested, sparking a year-
long boycott of the buses by blacks.
On this date:
In 1824, the presidential election was
turned over to the U.S. House of
Representatives when a deadlock
developed between John Quincy Adams,
Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford and
Henry Clay. (Adams ended up the winner.)
In 1860, the Charles Dickens novel "Great
Expectations" was first published in weekly
serial form.
In 1913, the first drive-in automobile
service station, built by Gulf Refining
Company, opened in Pittsburgh.
In 1941, Japan's Emperor Hirohito
approved waging war against the United
States, Britain and the Netherlands.
In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
and Soviet leader Josef Stalin concluded
their Tehran conference.
In 1958, the Rodgers and Hammerstein
musical "Flower Drum Song" opened on
Broadway.
In 1969, the U.S. government held its first
draft lottery since World War II.
In 1973, David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first
prime minister, died in Tel Aviv at age 87.
In 1989, in an extraordinary encounter,
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev met
with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.
In 1992, in Mineola, N.Y., Amy Fisher was
sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison for
shooting and seriously wounding Mary Jo
Buttafuoco. (Fisher served seven years.)
In 2000, Vicente (vih-SEN'-tay) Fox was
sworn in as president of Mexico, ending 71
years of ruling-party domination.
Ten years ago: India and Pakistan agreed to
restore airline overflight and landing rights
by Jan. 1st, 2004. Boeing Company
chairman and chief executive Phil Condit
resigned unexpectedly. U.S. Representative
Bill Janklow went on trial in Flandreau, S.D.,
charged with manslaughter in the death of
a motorcylist who'd collided with his
automobile. (Janklow was convicted and
served 100 days in jail.)