December 5 in History
What happened on December 5 in history?
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on december 5 in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened on december 5 in history.
?>2007
A gunman armed with a semi-automatic rifle kills 8 people at Westroads Mall, Omaha, Neb., before taking his own life.
2006
Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
1983
Military Junta dissolves in Argentina.
1978
The Soviet Union signs a 20-year friendship pact with Afghanistan.
1966
Comedian and political activist Dick Gregory heads for Hanoi, North Vietnam, despite federal warnings against it.
1955
A bus boycott begins under the leadership of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Montgomery, Alabama.
1953
Italy and Yugoslavia agree to pull troops out of the disputed Trieste border.
1950
Pyongyang in Korea falls to the invading Chinese army.
1945
Four TBM Avenger bombers disappear approximately 100 miles off the coast of Florida.
1937
The Lindberghs arrive in New York on a holiday visit after a two-year voluntary exile.
1936
The New Constitution in the Soviet Union promises universal suffrage, but the Communist Party remains the only legal political party.
1934
Italian and Ethiopian troops clash at the Ualual on disputed the Somali-Ethiopian border.
1933
The 21st Amendment ends Prohibition in the United States, which had begun 13 years earlier.
1921
The British empire reaches an accord with the Irish revolutionary group the Sinn Fein; Ireland is to become a free state.
1916
David Lloyd George replaces Herbert Asquith as the British prime minister.
1912
Italy, Austria and Germany renew the Triple Alliance for six years.
1909
George Taylor makes the first manned glider flight in Australia in a glider that he designed himself.
1904
The Japanese destroy a Russian fleet at Port Arthur in Korea.
1864
Confederate General John Bell Hood sends Nathan Bedford Forrest’s cavalry and a division of infantry toward Murfreesboro, Tenn.
1862
Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s cavalry receives a setback in an engagement on the Mississippi Central Railroad at Coffeeville, Mississippi.
1861
In the U.S. Congress, petitions and bills calling for the abolition of slavery are introduced.
1791
Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna.
1776
Phi Beta Kappa is organized as the first American college Greek letter-fraternity, at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.
1484
Pope Innocent VIII issues a bill deploring the spread of witchcraft and heresy in Germany.