THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Today is Thursday, Dec. 1, the 336th day of 2016. There are 30 days left in the year. IN THE NATION
1955: Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus. The incident sparked a year-long boycott of the buses by blacks. IN THE WORLD 1990: British and French workers digging the Channel Tunnel between their countries finally met after knocking out a passage in a service tunnel.