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Today in History ~ December 5
Events1492 - Columbus discovers Hispaniola
1776 - Phi Beta Kappa 1st American scholastic fraternity founded at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
1848 - President James Polk confirmed the discovery of gold in California, leading to the "gold rush" of 1848 and '49.
1876 - Daniel C Stillson patents pipe wrench
1933 - 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed when Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution. [H]
1935 - 1st coml hydroponics operation established Montebello Ca
1945 - Aircraft Squadron , five Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers, disappeared on a routine flight in the area of the Atlantic known as the Bermuda Triangle. [H]
1947 - Joe Wolcott beats Joe Louis
1951 - Dragnet premiers
1955 - The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organization merged after 20 years of rivalry to form the AFL-CIO.
1955 - In one of the early civil rights actions in the South, blacks declared a boycott of city buses in Montgomery, Ala., demanding seating on an equal basis with whites. The boycott, prompted by the Dec. 1, 1955, arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, lasted until Dec. 20, 1956, when a U.S Supreme Court ruling was implemented, integrating the city's public transit system.
1973 - Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album
1974 - Seattle Seahawks formed
1978 - Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
1982 - University Baptist Church Seattle declares sanctuary for refugees
1990 - The State Department said Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had accepted the idea of direct high-level U.S.-Iraqi talks to resolve the Gulf crisis.
1991 - British media magnate Robert Maxwell disappeared while on his yacht off the Canary Islands.
1993 - Rafael Caldera Rodriguez was elected president of Venezuela.
2001 - Factions in war-shaken Afghanistan agreed on an interim government, naming Hamid Karzai, a Pakistan tribal chief, as their new leader.
2002 - Iraq President Saddam Hussein said U.N. inspectors were being given the "chance" to prove that Baghdad had not produced weapons of mass destruction.
2002 - Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., celebrated his 100th birthday on Capitol Hill surrounded by current and former Senate colleagues, Supreme Court justices, family and former staffers. Thurmond, who retired the following year, served the Senate since 1954, making him both the longest-serving and oldest member of Congress. He died on June 27, 2003.
Birthdays Today
1782 - Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the United States
1839 - George Armstrong Custer, of Little Big Horn fame "Aren't those friendly Indians up there on that hill?" Gulp.) [H]
1894 - Phillip K. Wrigley (corporate executive: Wrigley Gum)
1901 - Walter (Walt) Elias Disney (cartoonist, producer: Mickey Mouse, Disneyland, Walt Disney World, feature films, animation)
1901 - Werner Heisenberg, discoverer of uncertainty (Nobel 1932)
1902 - Strom Thurmond, (D/R-Sen-SC) served the Senate from 1954 to 2003, making him both the longest-serving and oldest member of Congress
1903 - Cecil Frank Powell, English physicist discovered pion (Nobel 1950)
1905 - Otto Preminger, movie director producer (Laura Exodus)
1922 - Don Robertson (composer, musician)
1924 - Maggie (Margaret) Hayes (actress)
1926 - Jim Pashal (auto racer)
1932 - Jim Hurtubise (auto racer)
1932 - 'Little' Richard (Pennimann) (singer: Good Golly Miss Molly, Tutti Frutti; preacher)
1934 - Joan Didion (author: Run River)
1934 - Larry Kert (actor, singer, dancer)
1936 - Singer Chad Mitchell
1938 - J.D. (John Delphus) McDuffie (auto racer)
1945 - Pam Higgins (golfer)
1947 - Jim Messina (musician: duo: Loggins and Messina: Your Mama Don't Dance)
1947 - Jim Plunkett (football: Raiders quarterback: Super Bowl: XV, XVIII)
1947 - Jugderdemidyin Gurragcha, 1st Mongolian space traveler (Soyuz 39)
1949 - Fred O'Donnell (hockey)
1949 - Lanny Wadkins (golf: PGA champion [1977])
1950 - Steve Furness (football: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle: Super Bowl: IX, X, XIII, XIV)
1951 - Gordie Browne (football)
1951 - Morgan Brittany,
Famous deaths
1212 - Dirk II van Are Bishop of Utrecht (1197-1212), dies
1244 - Johanna van Constantinople countess of Flanders (1205-44), dies
1355 - Jan III duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies
1560 - Francis II King of France (1559-60), dies at 16
1594 - Gerardus Mercator geographer dies
1784 - Philis Wheatley poet, dies in Boston
1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composer, dies in Vienna Austria, at 35
1859 - Louis Poinsot French instrument maker, dies at 82
1891 - Jklsbfxvpsmgrg Pedro II of Alcantara emperor of Brazil (1831-89), die
1922 - Samuel Muller Fzn historian, dies
1925 - Wilhelmina E Drucker [Lensing], feminist, dies
1951 - "Shoeless" Joe Jackson of baseball's black sox scandal, dies
1964 - Remy Angenot Flemish actor, dies
1966 - Sylveer Maes Belgian bicylist, dies
1974 - Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman tennis player (US Open 1909-11) dies at 87
1983 - Robert Aldrich dir/producer dies at 65
1986 - Carmol Taylor country songwriter, dies at 53 of cancer
1989 - John M Pritchard British conductor, dies
1991 - Aad Mansfield soccer player/trainer (ADO/Feyenoord/FC Utrecht), dies
1991 - Convicted mass murderer Richard Speck died, one day short of his 50th birthday and 25 years after killing eight student nurses in Chicago.
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