In Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was
jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white
man, a violation of the city’s racial segregation laws.

The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young
Baptist minister named Martin Luther King Jr., followed Park’s
historic act of civil disobedience.

“The mother of the civil rights movement,” as Rosa Parks is
known, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1913.

She worked as a seamstress and in 1943 joined the Montgomery
chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People.

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 – April 4)

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks  (1913 –  2005)

On November 30, 1876, Yale defeated Princeton, 2-0, in
Hoboken, New Jersey in the first collegiate football game
played on Thanksgiving. Nearly 1,000 fans attend the
game, played in cold, rainy weather.

The football was oval and made of leather, the New York
Times noted, "similar to those used in Rugby Union rules."

The game resembled rugby more than a present-day football
game.

First Yale team playing under American intercollegiate
football rules. This team beat Harvard in the fall of ’76.”

Mark Twain at 15.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, later known as Mark Twain,
was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835.

Clemens was apprenticed to a printer at age 13 and later
worked for his older brother, who established the Hannibal
Journal. In 1857, the Keokuk Daily Post commissioned him
to write a series of comic travel letters, but after writing five
he decided to become a steamboat captain instead.

Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)

Dick Clark was a television and radio personality and producer
who hosted American Bandstand from 1956 to 1989.

He also hosted five incarnations of the Pyramid game show from
1973 to 1988 and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, which
broadcast New Year’s Eve celebrations in New York City’s Times
Square.

Dick Clark hosting the New Year’s eve special from New
York’s Times Square.