What Happened on December 5
Historical Events
- 771 Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman
- 1349 500 Jews of Nuremberg massacred during Black Death riots
- 1456 Earthquake strikes Naples; about 35,000 die
- 1848 US President James K. Polk triggers gold rush of 1849 by confirming a gold discovery in California
- 1933 Prohibition ends in the US when 21st Amendment to the US Constitution ratified, 18th Amendment repealed (5:32 PM EST)
- 1969 Four-node ARPANET network is established
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Dec 5 in Film & TV
- 2001 "Ocean's Eleven" directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Julia Roberts premieres in Westwood, California
Dec 5 in Music
- 1973 Paul McCartney & Wings release album "Band on the Run" in the US
Dec 5 in Sport
- 2017 Russia is banned from the next Winter Olympics in South Korea over state-sponsored doping
Did You Know?
Did You Know?English pirate Blackbeard ransacks the merchant sloop "Margaret" and keeps her captain, Henry Bostock prisoner for 8 hours before releasing him. Bostock later provides 1st record of Blackbeard's appearance, and the source for his name
On December 5, 1717
Julius II
Martin Van Buren
George Armstrong Custer
Walt Disney
Bhumibol Adulyadej
Little RichardWould You Believe?
Flight 19 the "Lost Squadron" of 5 torpedo bombers and 14 airmen is lost east of Florida in the supposed Bermuda Triangle
On December 5, 1945
Famous Weddings
- 1926 Gangster Carlo Gambino (24) weds his first cousin Catherine Castellano
- 1932 "East of Eden" director Elia Kazan (23) weds playwright Molly Day Thatcher (25)
- 1943 Singer and actress Dinah Shore (27) weds actor George Montgomery (27)
More Weddings & Divorces
Phillis Wheatley
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Alexandre Dumas
Claude Monet
Robert Watson-Watt
Nelson MandelaArticles, Photos and Quiz
Mozart, the Incomparable Musical Genius
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a musical genius who composed over 600 works in his short lifetime, died mysteriously on this day and was buried unceremoniously.
December 5, 1791Weekly Quiz for December 2 - 8
What did FDR call Pearl Harbor in a speech to Congress a day after the attack? What was patented in the US in 1909 sparking the birth of the plastics industry?
