Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 5

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  Pope Gregory XIV
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  Gough Whitlam
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  Damage from the Brooklyn Theatre fire
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  H. H. Asquith
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International Volunteer Day;	refimprove
; National Day in Thailand (1927)	multiple issues
1492 – Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.	date not cited
1590 – Niccolò Sfondrati became [[Pope Gregory XIV|Pope Template:Nowrap]], succeeding [[Pope Urban VII|Pope Template:Nowrap]] who died two months earlier.	refimprove section
1766 – In London, James Christie founded what is today the world's leading art business and fine arts auction house.	refimprove section
1776 – Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the United States, and the first collegiate organization to adopt a Greek-letter name, was founded at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.	lots of CN tags (13)
1876 – Fire engulfed the Brooklyn Theatre in Brooklyn, New York, killing at least 278 people, mostly due to smoke inhalation.	lots of CN tags (6), especially concentrated in two sections
1933 – The prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States at the federal level ended when the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment.	cn tags, sparsely cited
1958 – Subscriber trunk dialling was inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Template:Nowrap when she made a phone call from Bristol to Edinburgh.	refimprove
2005 – The Civil Partnership Act came into force, granting civil partnerships in the United Kingdom rights and responsibilities identical to civil marriage.	several incited passages, including the date itself

Eligible

• 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issued the papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus, which gave the Dominican inquisitor Heinrich Kramer the explicit authority to prosecute witchcraft in Germany.
• 1757 – Seven Years' War: Prussian troops under Frederick the Great defeated Austrian forces at the Battle of Leuthen (pictured).
• 1914 – The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition began in an attempt to make the first land crossing of Antarctica.
• 1916 – Amid the First World War and following his loss of support in Parliament, British Prime Minister [[H. H. Asquith|Template:Nowrap Asquith]] resigned.
• 1936 – The 1936 Soviet constitution, also known as the "Stalin constitution", was adopted.
• 1939 – The remains of [[Pedro II of Brazil|Template:Nowrap of Brazil]], who was ousted and exiled in a republican coup, were buried after being repatriated.
• 1945 – Flight 19, a squadron of five U.S. Navy torpedo bombers, disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle.
• 1952 – The "Great Smog of London" began and lasted for five days, causing 12,000 deaths and leading to the Clean Air Act 1956.
• 1965 – The "glasnost meeting" took place in Moscow, becoming the first demonstration in the Soviet Union after World Template:Nowrap and marking the beginning of the civil rights movement in the country.
• 1972 – Gough Whitlam took office as the 21st Prime Minister of Australia and formed a duumvirate with his deputy Lance Barnard, ending 23 years of Liberal-Country Party government.
• 1974 – The Birmingham Americans won the only World Bowl in World Football League history.
• 1995 – Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 56 crashed shortly after takeoff from Nakhchivan Airport, killing 52 people on board.
• 2007 – A nineteen-year-old gunman went on a shooting spree at a shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S., killing nine people, including himself.
• Born/died: | Ealhswith |d|902| Joan, Countess of Flanders |d|1244| Phillis Wheatley |d|1784| James Guthrie |b|1792 Afanasy Fet |b|1820|Jacobus Anthonie Meessen |b|1836| John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe |b|1859| Arthur Currie |b|1875| Clyde Cessna |b|1879| Louise Bryant |b|1885| Amrita Sher-Gil |d|1941| Sajid Javid |b|1969| Princess Alice of Battenberg |d|1969| Víctor Hugo Zamora |b|1970| Clair Cameron Patterson |d|1995

Notes

• Decline and fall of Pedro II of Brazil appears on November 15, Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil appears on November 29, and Pedro I of Brazil appears on December 1, so Pedro II should not be used in the same year.

December 5: Krampusnacht in parts of Central Europe

• 1456 – The first of two major earthquakes struck the Kingdom of Naples, killing up to 70,000 people.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Continental Army colonel Henry Knox arrived at Fort Ticonderoga in New York to arrange the transport of 60 tons of artillery (depicted) to support the siege of Boston.
• 1807 – Napoleonic Wars: British ships began a raid on Griessie after the Dutch captain refused a British demand for surrender.
• 1918 – National Guards and Sokol volunteers protested in Zagreb, leading to an armed clash with regiments of the Home Guard and former Common Army.
• 1958 – Britain's first motorway, the Preston Bypass, opened to the public.