Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 1

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December 1: Union Day in Romania (1918), World AIDS Day

1640 - John IV was declared King of Portugal, resulting in a war with Spain.
1822 - Pedro I was crowned the first Emperor of Brazil.
1913 - The world's first moving assembly line was installed in Highland Park, Michigan for the mass production of automobiles.
1958 - The colony of Ubangi-Shari became an autonomous territory within the French Community and took the name Central African Republic.
1990 - Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France met 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed, establishing the first ground connection between the island of Great Britain and the mainland of Europe since the last ice age.