Today in History, December 5th:
-1484: Pope Innocent VIII issues a bill deploring the spread of witchcraft and heresy in Germany.
-1776 Phi Beta Kappa is organized as the first American college Greek letter-fraternity, at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.
-1782: Martin Van Buren, 8th president in the United States--and the first born in the United States.
-1791: Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna.
-1839: George Armstrong Custer, Union cavalry leader who met his fate at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, was born.
-1861: In the U.S. Congress, petitions and bills calling for the abolition of slavery are introduced.
-1862: Union General Ulysses S. Grant's cavalry receives a setback in an engagement on the Mississippi Central Railroad at Coffeeville, Mississippi.
-1864: Confederate General John Bell Hood sends Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry and a division of infantry toward Murfreesboro, Tenn.
-1901: Walt Disney, animator and creator of an entertainment empire, was born
-1904: The Japanese destroy a Russian fleet at Port Arthur in Korea.
-1912: Italy, Austria and Germany renew the Triple Alliance for six years.
-1916: David Lloyd George replaces Herbert Asquith as the British prime minister.
-1921: The British empire reaches an accord with the Irish revolutionary group the Sinn Fein; Ireland is to become a free state.
-1932: Richard Wayne Penniman [Little Richard], singer, musician; important influence on rock 'n' roll, was born
-1933: The 21st Amendment ends Prohibition in the United States, which had begun 13 years earlier.
-1936: The New Constitution in the Soviet Union promises universal suffrage, but the Communist Party remains the only legal political party.
-1945: Four TBM Avenger bombers disappear approximately 100 miles off the coast of Florida.
-1950: Pyongyang in Korea falls to the invading Chinese army.
-1953: Italy and Yugoslavia agree to pull troops out of the disputed Trieste border.
-1955: A bus boycott begins under the leadership of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Montgomery, Alabama.
-1978: The Soviet Union signs a 20-year friendship pact with Afghanistan.
-1983: Military Junta dissolves in Argentina.
-2006: Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
-2007: A gunman armed with a semi-automatic rifle kills 8 people at Westroads Mall, Omaha, Neb., before taking his own life.
and all of this will pale in comparison to December 5th, 2021, when the Kansas City Chiefs, led by Patrick Levon Mahomes II, stomp the Mile High Donkeys into the turf at GEHA Field @ Arrowhead Stadium, resulting in an unprecedented 12th straight win against said Donkeys. History books will be rewritten.....
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