- 2005 – Poll ranks Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif) as the fifth most unpopular governor. [Pensito Review]
- 1986 – Lt. Colonel Oliver North pleads the 5th Amendment before a Senate panel investigating the Iran-Contra arms sale. [Xoom.it]
- 1976 – In Florida, Willard Allen was released from a mental hospital 26 years after he was ordered by a judge to be held there for having sex with another man. His doctors had been recommending his release for almost 20 years. [365Gay]
- 1899 – Birth of Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society [Xoom.it]
- 1824 – The election to succeed Pres. James Monroe was thrown to the House of Representatives on December 1, 1824. Per instruction in the 12th Amendment, when none of the four leading candidates received over 50 percent of the vote the House took a vote. John Quincy Adams, whose father was president after Washington, eventually defeated Gen. Andrew Jackson, Sec. of War John C. Calhoun, and Sec. of the Treasury William H. Crawford. [History Channel]
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