On December 2, 2001, the Enron Corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a New York court, sparking one of the
largest corporate scandals in U.S. history.

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
(February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005)

(FOX NEWS) – Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American
seamstress and local activist, refused to give up her seat
to a White passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, public
bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.

"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in," Parks said of
her decision to challenge local authority.

Black bus riders were required to sit in the back of the bus,
and to also give up those seats to White riders if the front
seats were filled, under local Montgomery ordinance.

Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala. after her arrest for civil disobedience.

A fire at Our Lady of Angels grade school in Chicago killed
87 children and three nuns on December 1, 1958; five more
children later died as a result of their injuries.

The Our Lady of Angels School was operated by the Sisters
of Charity in Chicago.

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Natalie Wood (July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981)

Natalie was a actress who began her career in film
as a child and successfully transitioned to young
adult roles.

As a teenager, she was nominated for an Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in
Rebel Without a Cause (1955), followed by a part
in John Ford‘s The Searchers (1956).

At the age of only 43, Wood drowned in the Pacific
Ocean near Santa Catalina Island during a break
from production of her would-be comeback film
Brainstorm (1983).

Natalie Wood in WEST SIDE STORY (1961)

On November 29, 1942, coffee joined the list of items rationed
in the United States. Despite record coffee production in Latin
American countries, the growing demand for the bean from
both military and civilian sources, and the demands placed
on shipping, which was needed for other purposes, required
the limiting of its availability.

Scarcity or shortages were rarely the reason for rationing
during the war. Rationing was generally employed for two
reasons: (1) to guarantee a fair distribution of resources
and foodstuffs to all citizens; and (2) to give priority to
military use for certain raw materials, given the present
emergency.