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Historical Events on December 5

63 BC
Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations.
633
Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
1082
Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
1408
Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
1484
Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes affectibus, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany.
1492
Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
1496
King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree ordering the expulsion of "heretics" from the country.
1560
Charles IX becomes king of France.
1757
Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen - Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
1766
In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
1775
At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1831
Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
1847
Jefferson Davis is elected to the U.S. Senate.
1848
California Gold Rush: In a message to the United States Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
1865
Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
1931
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin.
1932
German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
1933
The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
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
World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army.
1941
World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
1943
World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
1952
Great Smog: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow.
1955
The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO.
1955
E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1958
Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
1958
The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.)
1964
Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
1964
Lloyd J. Old discovered the first linkage between the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and disease—mouse leukemia—opening the way for the recognition of the importance of the MHC in the immune response.
1977
Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen. The move is in retaliation for the Declaration of Tripoli against Egypt.
1983
Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
1995
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lanka's government announces the conquest of the Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
2004
The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
2005
The 6.8 Mw Lake Tanganyika earthquake shakes the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing six people.
2006
Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
2013
Militants attack a Defense Ministry compound in Sana'a, Yemen, killing at least 56 people and injuring 200 others.

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