5 event in Today's Date in History (1st December )

1. 1862 - Lincoln’s State of the Union address.
2. 1925 - After a seven-year occupation, 7,000 British troops evacuate Cologne, Germany.
3. 1955 - Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, defying the South's segregationist laws.
4. 1973 - Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2M in a year.
5. 1982 - Michael Jackson releases his album "Thriller".