SomeFacts | December 5

On this day - December 5

2017 – The International Olympic Committee bans Russia from competing ...

2014 – Exploration Flight Test-1, the first flight test of Orion, is ...

2013 – Militants attack a Defense Ministry compound in Sanaa, Yemen, ...

2007 – Westroads Mall shooting: Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins ...

2006 – Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.

2005 – The 6.8 Mw Lake Tanganyika earthquake shakes the eastern ...

2005 – The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United ...

2001 – Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-108, carrying the ...

1995 – Azerbaijan Airlines Flight A-56 crashes near Nakhchivan ...

1995 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lanka's government announces the ...

1994 – The Budapest Memorandum is signed at the OSCE conference in ...

1991 – Leonid Kravchuk is elected the first president of Ukraine.

1983 – Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.

1977 – Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, ...

1971 – Battle of Gazipur: Pakistani forces are defeated as India ...

1964 – Lloyd J. Old discovers the first linkage between the major ...

1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, ...

1958 – The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens ...

1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United ...

1955 – The Civil Rights Movement: the Montgomery bus boycott begins, ...

1955 – The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of ...

1952 – Beginning of the Great Smog in London. A cold fog combines ...

1945 – Flight 19, a group of TBF Avengers, disappears in the Bermuda ...

1943 – World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's ...

1941 – World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary ...

1941 – World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches ...

1936 – The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz ...

1935 – Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women ...

1934 – Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, ...

1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution ...

1921 – The Football Association bans women's football in England from ...

1919 – Ukrainian War of Independence: The Polonsky conspiracy is ...

1914 – The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition begins in an attempt ...

1895 – New Haven Symphony Orchestra of Connecticut performs its first ...

1865 – Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.

1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message to the United States ...

1847 – Jefferson Davis is elected to the U.S. Senate.

1831 – Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the ...

1776 – Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., ...

1775 – At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport ...

1770 – 29th Regiment of Foot privates Hugh Montgomery and Matthew ...

1766 – In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.

1757 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen: Frederick II of Prussia ...

1649 – The town of Raahe (Swedish: Brahestad) is founded by Count Per ...

1578 – Sir Francis Drake, after sailing through Strait of Magellan, ...

1560 – Ten-year-old Charles IX becomes king of France, with Queen ...

1496 – King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree ordering the ...

1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes affectibus, ...

1456 – The first of two earthquakes measuring Mw 7.2 strikes Italy, ...

1408 – Seeking to resubjugate Muscovy, Emir Edigu of the Golden Horde ...

1082 – Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated, most ...

1033 – The Jordan Rift Valley earthquake destroys multiple cities ...

633 – Fourth Council of Toledo opens, presided over by Isidore of ...

63 BC – Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations.