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On This Day, Dec. 1: Thailand crowns first new monarch in seven decades

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On December 1, 2016, Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, pictured in May 2016, was formally proclaimed King Maha X of Thailand, the country’s first new monarch in seven decades. File Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/European Pressphoto Agency

Dec. 1 (UPI) — On this date in history:

In 1891, the game of basketball was invented when James Naismith, a physical education teacher at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Mass., put peach baskets at the opposite ends of a gym and gave students soccer balls to toss into them.

In 1903, the world’s first drive-in gasoline station opened for business in Pittsburgh.

In 1943, ending a “Big Three” meeting in Tehran, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Russian Premier Josef Stalin pledged a concerted effort to defeat Nazi Germany.

In 1950, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, in a cable to…

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