This Day in History
05 Dec 1082
Ramon Berenguer II Count of Barcelona is assassinated
05 Dec 1301
Pope Boniface VIIIs degree Ausculta fili (only nominee)
05 Dec 1349
500 Jews of Nuremberg massacred during Black Death riots
05 Dec 1448
Bishop Jona of Moscow chosen as metropolitan of KievIntoxication
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Aircraft squadron lost in the Bermuda Triangle
At 210 p.m. five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19 take off from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida on a routine three-hour ...
North Vietnam announces it will not be intimidated by U.S. bombing
A North Vietnamese newspaper declares that the country will not be intimidated by U.S. bombing threats. Earlier in the week U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin La...
Army Captain awarded first Medal of Honor for action in Vietnam
The first Medal of Honor awarded to a U.S. serviceman for action in Vietnam is presented to Capt. Roger Donlon of Saugerties New York for his heroic action ea...
Roone Arledge dies
On December 5 2002 the legendary television producer and executive Roone Arledge dies in New York City at the age of 71. Born in Forest Hills Queens Arledg...
Van Buren is born
On this day in 1782 Martin Van Buren Americas 8th president is born in Kinderhook New York to Dutch parents. He left grammar school with his sights...
Rodeo star Bill Pickett born in Texas
On this day the great steer wrestling rodeo star Bill Pickett is born near Austin Texas.The son of black and Indian parents Pickett learned his roping and ri...
O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack released
Released on this day in 2000 several weeks ahead of the film itself the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack would catch on slowly but it would eventually s...
Steinbeck’s Sea of Cortez is published
On this day John Steinbecks nonfiction book The Sea of Cortez is published. The book reflects Steinbecks serious study of marine biology. He al...
Eddie Murphy stars in Beverly Hills Cop
Eddie Murphy stars as the wisecracking Detective Axel Foley in the action-comedy Beverly Hills Cop released in theaters on this day in 1984. The movie marked t...
Hundreds die in Brooklyn theater fire
A fire at the Brooklyn Theater in New York kills nearly 300 people and injures hundreds more on this day in 1876. Some victims perished from a combination of bu...
The Boston Belfry Murderer kills his first victim
Bridget Landregan is found beaten and strangled to death in the Boston suburb of Dorchester. According to witnesses a man in black clothes and a flowing cape a...
USSR and Afghanistan sign “friendship treatyâ€
In an effort to prop up an unpopular pro-Soviet regime in Afghanistan the Soviet Union signs a friendship treaty with the Afghan government agree...
George Custer born
On this day in 1839 Union General George Armstrong Custer is born in Harrison County Ohio. Although he is best known for his demise at the hands of the Lakota...
Last segment of the Dan Ryan Expressway opens in Chicago
On this day highway administrators pile into a car and take a ceremonial drive through a paper ribbon at the entrance to the final segment known as the West L...
Phi Beta Kappa is founded while army flounders
On this day in Williamsburg Virginia a group of five students at the College of William and Mary gather at Raleighs Tavern to found a new fraternity ...
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