Almanac of Absurdities for 12/1

On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man while riding on a Mobile Alabama City Bus. She’s arrested, but that’s not the end. In 1960, musicians Pete Best and Paul McCartney are deported from Hamburg Germany after setting fire to a condom in the ladies room of a Reeperbahn theatre. Birthdays: Richard Pryor, Bette Midler, and Billy Paul who did “Me and Mrs. Jones”