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1 - 24 of 24 Interesting & Fun 5th of December Facts: |
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| 1492 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola. |
| 1560 - Francis II of France dies and is succeeded by Charles IX of France. |
| 1776 - At the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, the Phi Beta Kappa is founded as the first scholastic fraternity in the United States. |
| 1830 - World premiere of Hector Berlioz's most famous work Symphonie Phantastique in Paris. |
| 1831 - Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives. |
| 1848 - California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California. |
| 1892 - Sir John Thompson becomes the fourth Prime Minister of Canada. |
| 1926 - Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin is premiered. |
| 1932 - German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa. |
| 1934 - Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city. |
| 1936 - The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR. |
| 1941 - In Battle of Moscow Zhukov launched a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre. |
| 1945 - Flight 19, a squadron of five U.S. Navy TBF Avenger bombers on a training flight out of Fort Lauderdale, is lost in the Bermuda Triangle. |
| 1952 - The Abbott and Costello Show, starring comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, debuts on American television. |
| 1955 - The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO. |
| 1955 - Martin Luther King, Jr. leads the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 12/5/1955-12/21/1956. |
| 1958 - The Preston bypass, the UK's first stretch of motorway opens to traffic for the first time, now part of the M6 and M55 motorways. |
| 1974 - Party Political Broadcast, the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, is broadcast on BBC 2. |
| 1976 - United Nations General Assembly adopts Pakistan resolution on security of non-Nuclear States. |
| 1977 - Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen. The move is in retaliation to the Declaration of Tripoli against Egypt. |
| 1978 - The Soviet Union signs a 'friendship treaty' with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. |
| 2001 - World Record set for longest recorded kiss in New York. |
| 2005 - The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
| 2005 - The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there. |
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