FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS

The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955—the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for her refusal to surrender her seat to a white person—to December 20, 1956, when the federal ruling Browder v. Gayle took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws that segregated buses were unconstitutional.

TODAY’S ALMANAC

Question of the Day

Can you recommend any home remedies for arthritis?If you’re troubled by arthritis pain, try adding apple cider vinegar or fresh gingerroot to your bathwater. Drinking ginger tea (up to a teaspoon of ground ginger in a cup of boiling water) also helps.

Advice of the Day

To fight insomnia, simmer warm milk with chopped garlic. Strain the garlic, then drink the warm milk.

Home Hint of the Day

To clean burned food from the bottom of an aluminum pot or pan, wet the burned food, cover with baking soda, and set aside for a couple of hours. Then scrape, wash, and rinse the pan.

Word of the Day

Lenticular CloudLenticular clouds are only seen around mountains. These strange clouds are easy to spot, because they look like flying saucers or a stack of pancakes. Their most interesting characteristic is that they don’t move. Winds blow right through them, while other clouds are swept away.

Puzzle of the Day

What do men never wish to be in and yet labor hard to possess?Bonds

Born

• Martin Van Buren(8th U.S. president. He was the first president to be a U.S. citizen at birth)– 1782
• George Armstrong Custer(U.S. Calvary officer)– 1839
• Walt Disney(animator & theme park developer)– 1901
• Strom Thurmond(politician)– 1902
• Joan Didion(author)– 1934
• Little Richard(musician)– 1935
• Jim Plunkett(football player)– 1947
• Clyde Vernon Cessna(aircraft manufacturer)– 1979
• Frankie Muniz(actor)– 1985

Died

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart(composer)– 1791
• Claude Monet(painter)– 1926
• Shoeless Joe Jackson(baseball player)– 1951
• Don Meredith(football player & broadcaster)– 2010
• Pusuke(world’s oldest living dog until time of death)– 2011
• Nelson Mandela(political activist)– 2013

Events

• Canada’s first electric car debuted, in Toronto, Ontario– 1893
• American League for Physical Culture formed– 1929
• First large hydroponicum established, in Montebello, California– 1935
• Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott to protest racial segregation on city buses– 1955
• The Rolling Stones celebrated the release of Beggars Banquet with a custard pie fight at London’s Kensington Gore Hotel– 1968
• The last new episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus was broadcast on the BBC– 1974
• The first six astronauts were chosen for the Canadian Space Program– 1983
• Electric eels lit a Christmas tree at the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy, Utah– 2012

Weather

• Deadly tornado struck Vicksburg, Mississippi– 1953
• Boston, Massachusetts, received 18 inches of snow– 1981
• Newport, Rhode Island, received 24 inches of snow– 1981

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