December 5th 2014 - This Date in History.

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Events:C/P.

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 of expulsion of "heretics" from the country.
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, James Christie holds his first sale.
1775 – At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1815 – Foundation of Maceió, Brazil.
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, his first political post.
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.
1876 – The Brooklyn Theater Fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn, New York.
1916 – British premier H. H. Asquith resigns from his post.
1920 – Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
1933 – Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment. (This overturned the 18th Amendment which had made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States.)
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, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.
1941 – World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
1943 – World War II: U.S. Army Air Force begins attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
1945 – Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
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.
1957 – Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
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.
1969 – The four node ARPANET network is established.
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.
1978 – The Soviet Union signs a "friendship treaty" with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
1983 – Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
1993 – The mayor of Vienna, Helmut Zilk, is injured by a letter bomb.
1995 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lankan 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 Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2006 – Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
2007 – Westroads Mall shooting: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska, mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.
2012 – At least 8 people are killed and 12 others injured after a 5.6 earthquake strikes Iran's South Khorasan Province.

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Today's Canadian Headline...

1902 WIRELESS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia - Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi 1874-1937 transmits the first readable wireless radio signals 3,200 km across the Atlantic from his station at Glace Bay, Cape Breton to Poldhu in Cornwall, England. Two years earlier, he had sent a message across the English Channel; on Dec. 12, 1901, he had sent the first transatlantic wireless test signal - the letter 'S' repeated over and over - from Poldhu to his assistant Percy Wright Paget flying a box kite trailing a 121 metre long copper wire antenna on Signal Hill, St. John's. Nfld. The Canadian government gave Marconi $80 000 to set up wireless operations at Glace Bay, after nervous Newfoundland undersea cable companies, claiming a monopoly on transatlantic messages, booted him off the island. The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada Ltd. - today's Canadian Marconi Company - was chartered in 1902.

1837
Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 leads 800 rebels 8 km down Yonge Street from Montgomery's Tavern to Toronto, where they are met by Dr. John Rolph and Robert Baldwin; a group led by Samuel Lount is dispersed by a picket at Gallow's Hill below St. Clair, and the rebels flee in disorder; two days later they are routed by the militia.



In Other Events...

1997 Montreal Quebec - Quebec police arrest Hell's Angels motorcycle gang chief Maurice 'Mom' Boucher on suspicion of the murder of two prison guards; fail to get a conviction one year later.
1996 Paris France - Quebec singer Robert Charlebois receives the Grande médaille de la chanson.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Radio Canada announces layoffs of 1,100 employees.
1987 Montreal Quebec - Hydro-Quebec signs a long-term $7.2 billion supply contract with the state of Vermont.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Roberta Bondar 1951-, Marc Garneau 1949-, Steven Maclean 1953-, Kenneth Money 1952-, Robert Thirsk 1953- and Bjarni Tryggvason 1954- chosen as Canada's first six astronauts for Space Shuttle work.
1983 Quebec - Hells Angels motorcycle gang invade Quebec to do battle with the Rock Machine.
1976 Oxford England - The first 4 Canadian women Rhodes Scholars are chosen.
1973 Montreal Quebec - Official opening of Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal.
1970 Toronto Ontario - The Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy and Bill Masterson Trophy are all stolen from the NHL Hall of Fame; later recovered.
1970 Montreal Quebec - British Trade Commissioner James Cross returns to London after two days of debriefing following his release by FLQ terrorists.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - The Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism releases first Report.
1962 Quebec Quebec - Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain 1926- appointed Minister Without Portfolio; first woman given Quebec Cabinet post.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Charlotte Whitton re-elected Mayor of Ottawa.
1950 Nashville Tennessee - Nova Scotia's Hank Snow has a #1 country hit single with 'IÕm Moving On'.
1947 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of another session of the 20th Parliament.
1944 San ******** Italy - 1st Canadian Infantry Division launch attack on San ********, but are driven back by a German counter-attack; an attack on the 7th will be successful and San ******** will fall on the 9th.
1940 Atlantic - First Canadian corvettes join Battle of the Atlantic.
1940 Britain - Torpedoed Canadian destroyer 'Saguenay' limps into British port after taking a hit from a German torpedo; first Canadian warship torpedoed.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Wartime Prices and Trade Board given more control over prices and supply; investigative, price-fixing and licensing powers.
1936 Toronto Ontario - Sarnia Imperials beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-20 in the 24th Grey Cup game.
1925 Toronto Ontario - Ottawa Senators beat Winnipeg Tammany Tigers, 24-1, in the 13th Grey Cup game.
1924 Toronto Ontario - NHL Hamilton Tiger Red Green [seriously - Ed.]scores 5 goals as his hockey team beats the Toronto Maple Leafs 10-5.
1924 Calgary Alberta - Calgary Police Chief Ritchie says his police cannot stop the Ku Klux Klan from recruiting in Calgary, if no laws are broken.
1914 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Argonauts beat the University of Toronto, 14-2, in the 6th Grey Cup game.
1912 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Borden proposes a gift of $35 million to Britain to assist with rearmament.
1893 Toronto Ontario - F. B. Featherstonhaugh buys first electric car in Toronto; built by Dickson Cartage Works.
1892 Ottawa Ontario - Mackenzie Bowell 1823-1917 appointed to the Senate; later Canada's 5th Prime Minister.
1892 Ottawa Ontario - John Sparrow David Thompson 1845-1894 sworn in as Prime Minister; former Nova Scotia Premier and Justice, Supreme Court of Nova Scotia ; serves until his death at Windsor Castle, Dec. 12, 1894.
1890 USA - Quebec strongman Louis Cyr lifts 490 lbs with one finger; working with Barnum circus.
1869 Winnipeg Manitoba - English and French Red River settlers publish List of Rights, with 14 demands, including the right to elect their own legislature, the use of French and English in the legislature, representation in the Canadian Parliament, and free land grants.
1837 Montreal Quebec - Martial law proclaimed in Montreal.
1807 Quebec - Complains made that the fur trade is corrupting the morals of the people.
1775 Quebec Quebec - Richard Montgomery 1736-1775 begins American siege of Quebec with aid of Benedict Arnold; will try to capture fortress before onset of winter.
1749 Montreal Quebec - Pierre de La Vérendrye 1685-1749 dies at Montreal; soldier, farmer, fur trader, explorer, born at Trois-Rivières Nov. 17, 1685; he and his sons were the first to bring the French fur trade from Lake Superior to the lower Saskatchewan and Missouri rivers.
1700 Montreal Quebec - Severe influenza epidemic hits the people of Montreal.
1560 Paris France - King Charles IX 1550-1574 starts reign; to 1574; on death of François II.

End of C/P.