WHAT HAPPENED ON 1. DECEMBER
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Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport. (1. December 1974)

Angola joins the United Nations. (1. December 1976)

Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board. (1. December 1981)

NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes. (1. December 1984)

Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan. (1. December 1988)

1989 Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état. (1. December 1989)

Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state. (1. December 1989)

Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed. (1. December 1990)

Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union. (1. December 1991)

In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacked the CPI(ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people. (1. December 1997)

Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA's purchase by American Airlines. (1. December 2001)

The Treaty of Lisbon, which amends the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, which together comprise the constitutional basis of European Union, comes into effect. (1. December 2009)

China launches Yutu or Jade Rabbit, its first lunar rover, as part of the Chang'e 3 lunar exploration mission. (1. December 2013)

At least four are dead and 63 are injured following a Metro-North Railroad train derailment near Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, New York City. (1. December 2013)