On the 1st of December…1644: Portugal regains its independence from Spain after 60 years of occupation.
1787: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been appointed imperial composer in place of the late Christoph Willibald Gluck.
1818: Theodoros Kolokotronis is initiated into the Friendly Society.
1822: Franz Liszt made his debut as a pianist at the age of just 11. The newspaper "Algemeine Zeitung" calls him "… .little Hercules,… who fell from the clouds".
1834: Otto and the government settle in Athens, the new capital of the newly formed Greek state.
1886: Rex Stout, American author of detective novels, was born.
1908: George Kazasoglou was born, a Greek composer of musical music.
1923: Maurice De Bever was born, a Belgian cartoonist, collaborator of Rene Gossini and creator of the adventures of the cowboy Lucy Luke.
1934: Sergei Kirov, a Russian revolutionary, has died. (murdered)
1973: David Ben Gurion, the founder of the state of Israel and the country's first prime minister from 1948 to 1953, has died.
1990: Sergio Corbuci, an Italian director known for his "western spaghetti", died.
Source: sansimera.gr