12-05-2004, 05:31 AM
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December 5th
1492 ~ Christopher Columbus discovered the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
1766 ~ In London, James Christie held his first sale. He later founded Christie's, the world's oldest auction house.
1791 ~ Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer.
1839 ~ Birthday of George Armstrong Custer, American general.
1890 ~ Birthday of Fritz Lang, film director.
1901 ~ Birthday of Werner Karl Heisenberg, physicist.
1901 ~ Birthday of Walt Disney, film producer.
1926 ~ Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin", debuted.
1933 ~ Prohibition ends: Utah became the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, establishing the required 3/4th of states needed to enact the amendment. This overturned the 18th Amendment, which had outlawed the sale of alcohol in the United States.
1945 ~ Flight 19, a United States Navy training flight was lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
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