Search examples: Microsoft | 2015 | 2014/10 | 4.12 | 04/20 | 05/26/1980 | Galileo Galilei

Events on the 5th of December in history

Events
Date Text
05 Dec 2063 Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations.
0
05 Dec 0633 Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
0
05 Dec 1082 Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
0
05 Dec 1349 500 Jews of Nuremberg massacre during Black Death riots
0
05 Dec 1408 Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
0
05 Dec 1448 Bishop Jona of Moscow chosen as metropolitan of Kiev / Intoxication
0
05 Dec 1456 Earthquake strikes Naples; about 35,000 die
0
05 Dec 1484 Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes affectibus, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany.
0
05 Dec 1492 Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
0
05 Dec 1496 Jews are expelled from Portugal by order of King Manuel I
0
05 Dec 1496 King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree of expulsion of "heretics" from the country.
0
05 Dec 1757 Battle at Leuthen: Prussian army beats Austrians
0
05 Dec 1757 Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen – Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
0
05 Dec 1766 In London, James Christie holds his first sale.
0
05 Dec 1775 At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
0
05 Dec 1776 1st US fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa (William & Mary College), forms
0
05 Dec 1792 George Washington re-elected US President
0
05 Dec 1798 Government troops occupy Hasselt
0
05 Dec 1804 Thomas Jefferson re-elected US President / George Clinton vice-pres
0
05 Dec 1815 Foundation of Maceió, Brazil.
0
05 Dec 1831 Former President John Q Adams takes his seat as member of House of Reps
0
05 Dec 1831 Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
0
05 Dec 1832 Andrew Jackson re-elected President of US
0
05 Dec 1837 Uprising under William Lyon Mackenzie in Canada
0
05 Dec 1846 C F Schoenbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive
0
05 Dec 1847 Jefferson Davis is elected to the U.S. senate.
0
05 Dec 1848 California Gold Rush: In a message to the United States Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
0
05 Dec 1854 Aaron Allen of Boston patents folding theater chair
0
05 Dec 1861 Gatling gun patented
0
05 Dec 1862 Battle of Coffeeville, Mississippi
0
05 Dec 1865 Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
0
05 Dec 1868 1st American bicycle college opens (NY)
0
05 Dec 1876 Daniel Stillson (Mass) patents 1st practical pipe wrench
0
05 Dec 1876 Fire at Brooklyn Theater kills 295, trampled or burned to death
0
05 Dec 1876 The Brooklyn Theater Fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn, New York.
0
05 Dec 1879 1st automatic telephone switching system patented
0
05 Dec 1881 47th Congress (1881-83) convenes
0
05 Dec 1893 1st electric car (built in Toronto) could go 15 miles between charges
0
05 Dec 1905 Henry Campbell-Bannermam (Lib) becomes Prime Minister of England
0
05 Dec 1908 1st football uniform numerals used (University of Pittsburgh)
0
05 Dec 1914 6th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats University of Toronto, 14-2
0
05 Dec 1916 British premier H. H. Asquith resigns from his post.
0
05 Dec 1918 Oil refinery on Curacao opens
0
05 Dec 1920 Pro football playoff game Akron and Buffalo 0-0 tie, title undecided
0
05 Dec 1920 Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
0
05 Dec 1924 Hamilton Tiger Red Green scores 5 goals to beat Toronto Maple Leafs 10-5
0
05 Dec 1925 13th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Senators defeats Win Tammany Tigers, 24-1
0
05 Dec 1928 England defeats Australia by record 675 runs at Brisbane
0
05 Dec 1928 MW Miklas elected President of Austria
0
05 Dec 1929 1st US nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, NYC)
0
05 Dec 1931 CFL Grey Cup: Mtl AAA beats Regina, 22-0 at Montreal
0
05 Dec 1931 Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed by an order of Joseph Stalin.
0
05 Dec 1932 German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa
0
05 Dec 1932 German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
0
05 Dec 1933 21st Am ratified, 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed (5:32pm EST)
0
05 Dec 1933 Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment. (This overturned the 18th Amendment which had made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States.)
0
05 Dec 1934 Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
0
05 Dec 1935 1st coml hydroponics operation established (Montebello, California)
0
05 Dec 1935 National Council of Negro Women forms by Mary McLeod Bethune (NYC)
0
05 Dec 1936 24th CFL Grey Cup: Sarnia Imperials defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-20
0
05 Dec 1936 Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR and Kirghiz SSR becomes constituent Republics of Soviet Union
0
05 Dec 1936 The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
0
05 Dec 1941 Football Writers Association of America organized
0
05 Dec 1941 Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out Nazi army
0
05 Dec 1941 Sister Elizabeth Kenny new treatment for infantile paralysis approved
0
05 Dec 1941 US aircraft carrier Lexington / 5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor
0
05 Dec 1941 World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.
0
05 Dec 1941 World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
0
05 Dec 1942 CFL Grey Cup: Tor beats Win RCAF, 8 -5 at Toronto
0
05 Dec 1942 Seyss-Inquart orders students in Nazi-Germany to go work
0
05 Dec 1942 West Indies chocolate / coffee drop above Netherland
0
05 Dec 1943 NFL Philadelphia Eagle-Pitts Steeler merger disolves
0
05 Dec 1943 World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
0
05 Dec 1944 German troops rob all the silver coin in Utrecht
0
05 Dec 1945 "Lost Squadron" crashes east of Florida (Bermuda Triangle)
0
05 Dec 1945 Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl
0
05 Dec 1945 Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
0
05 Dec 1946 President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order #9808
0
05 Dec 1947 Joe Louis beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
0
05 Dec 1948 New York Giant Charley Conerly sets NFL record of 36 pass completions
0
05 Dec 1949 Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for heavyweight boxing title
0
05 Dec 1950 Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
0
05 Dec 1950 Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India
0
05 Dec 1951 "Dragnet" premieres
0
05 Dec 1952 Great Smog: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow.
0
05 Dec 1954 KTEW (now KJRH) TV channel 2 in Tulsa, OK (NBC) begins broadcasting
0
05 Dec 1955 AFL and CIO merge, with George Meany as President
0
05 Dec 1955 Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama by Rosa Parks
0
05 Dec 1955 The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO.
0
05 Dec 1955 E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
0
05 Dec 1957 New York City is 1st city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)
0
05 Dec 1957 Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
0
05 Dec 1958 Phils drop plans for New York sportcast as Yanks threat to do same in Philadelphia
0
05 Dec 1958 WTOL TV channel 11 in Toledo, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
0
05 Dec 1958 Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
0
05 Dec 1958 The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.)
0
05 Dec 1959 Intikhab Alam bowls Colin McDonald with 1st ball in Tests
0
05 Dec 1960 Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium
0
05 Dec 1964 Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
0
05 Dec 1964 Lloyd J. Old discovered the first linkage between the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and disease—mouse leukemia—opening the way for the recognition of the importance of the MHC in the immune response.
0
05 Dec 1966 "I Do! I Do!" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 561 performances
0
05 Dec 1967 Beatles clothing store "Apple" on 94 Baker Street, London, opens
0
05 Dec 1967 Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg arrested protesting Vietnam war
0
05 Dec 1969 The four node ARPANET network is established.
0
05 Dec 1970 LA Rams Willie Ellison sets NFL record of 247 yards rushing
0
05 Dec 1970 Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy and Bill Masterson trophy stolen from NHL hall of fame
0
05 Dec 1971 KCBJ (now KMIZ) TV channel 17 in Columbia, MO (ABC) 1st broadcast
0
05 Dec 1972 38th Heisman Trophy Award: Johnny Rodgers, Nebraska (FL)
0
05 Dec 1972 Australia Labour party wins parliamentary election
0
05 Dec 1972 Joseph A Walkers "River Niger, " premieres in New York City
0
05 Dec 1973 Dodgers trade Willie Davis to Expos for relief pitcher Mike Marshall
0
05 Dec 1973 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album
0
05 Dec 1974 1st Washington Capitals penalty shot, Tom Williams unsuccessful vs. Buff Sabres
0
05 Dec 1974 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida
0
05 Dec 1974 Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran)
0
05 Dec 1974 Oliver Tilden Triangle in the Bronx named
0
05 Dec 1974 Tom Williams is unsuccessful on Washington Capitals 1st NHL penalty shot
0
05 Dec 1975 "Me & Bessie" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 453 performances
0
05 Dec 1975 NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed
0
05 Dec 1976 Buffalo Bill OJ Simpson rushes 203 yards
0
05 Dec 1977 Egypt breaks dipl relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and S Yemen
0
05 Dec 1977 Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen. The move is in retaliation for the Declaration of Tripoli against Egypt.
0
05 Dec 1978 EG decides establishes EMS, European Monetary System
0
05 Dec 1978 Free agent Pete Rose signs 4-year, $32 million contract with Phillies
0
05 Dec 1978 Phillies Pete Rose becomes highest paid baseball player
0
05 Dec 1978 Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
0
05 Dec 1978 The Soviet Union signs a "friendship treaty" with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
0
05 Dec 1979 Ireland Premier Jack Lynch resigns
0
05 Dec 1981 47th Heisman Trophy Award: Marcus Allen, Southern California (RB)
0
05 Dec 1981 56th Australian Women Tennis: Navratilova beats Chris Evert (67 64 75)
0
05 Dec 1982 Herschel Walker of Georgia wins Heisman Trophy
0
05 Dec 1982 Mel Gray ends NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions
0
05 Dec 1982 Seattle Univ Baptist Church declares sanctuary for Central American refugees
0
05 Dec 1983 12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut
0
05 Dec 1983 LA Dodger pitcher Steve Howe is suspended for 1 year for cocaine use
0
05 Dec 1983 Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
0
05 Dec 1984 French colonies killed 10 Kanaken in New Caledonia
0
05 Dec 1984 Yankees trade catcher Rick Cerone to Braves for pitcher Brian Fisher
0
05 Dec 1985 Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 1,500 level for 1st time
0
05 Dec 1987 53rd Heisman Trophy Award: Tim Brown, Notre Dame (WR)
0
05 Dec 1988 NC federal grand jury indict PTL founder Jim Bakker on fraud and conspiracy
0
05 Dec 1989 France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 km/h
0
05 Dec 1990 Blue Jays trade F McGriff and T Fernandez to SD for R Alomar and J Carter
0
05 Dec 1990 Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty
0
05 Dec 1990 Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years
0
05 Dec 1991 "Catskills on Broadway" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 452 performances
0
05 Dec 1991 Charles Keating Jr (Lincoln Savings & Loan fraud), found guilty
0
05 Dec 1991 New York Daily News files for protection under chapter 11
0
05 Dec 1993 "Timon of Athens" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 37 performances
0
05 Dec 1993 82nd Davis Cup: Germany beats Australia in Dusseldorf (4-1)
0
05 Dec 1993 Astronauts begin repair of Hubble telescope in space
0
05 Dec 1993 Melissa Mcnamara / Mike Sopringer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
0
05 Dec 1993 Newhart actor William Sanderson (47) weds Sharon Wix (39)
0
05 Dec 1993 Rafael Caldera elected President of Venezuela
0
05 Dec 1993 The mayor of Vienna, Helmut Zilk, is injured by a letter bomb.
0
05 Dec 1995 Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of the Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
0
05 Dec 1996 "Dreams & Nightmares, " opens at Martin Beck Theater, New York City
0
05 Dec 1996 Players union approves new collective bargaining agreement
0
05 Dec 1997 STS 87 (Columbia 24) lands
0
05 Dec 2004 The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
0
05 Dec 2005 The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
0
05 Dec 2006 Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
0
05 Dec 2007 Westroads Mall shooting: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska, mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.
0
05 Dec 2012 At least 8 people are killed and 12 others injured after a 5.6 earthquake strikes Iran's South Khorasan Province.
0
05 Dec 2013 Militants attack a Defense Ministry compound in Sana'a, Yemen, killing at least 56 people and injuring 200 others.
0
05 Dec 2014 The first flight test of NASA's Orion spacecraft launches successfully.
0
4th December 6th December
© 2016 OnThisDay.net All rights reserved.
Loaded in 0.0576s.