December 5<\/p>\n
1408 \u2013 The Mongolian Golden Horde, under Edigu Khan, reaches and besieges Moscow.<\/p>\n
1578 \u2013 On his voyage of circumnavigation, Sir Francis Drake, sails through Strait of Magellan the raids Valparaiso.<\/p>\n
1766 \u2013 In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.<\/p>\n
1770 \u2013 At trial, among others charged with Murder, British 29th Regiment of Foot Privates Hugh Montgomery and Matthew Kilroy, who, defended by John Adams and Josiah Quincy II, assisted by Sampson Blowers and Paul Revere, are the only soldiers found guilty for the lesser charge of Manslaughter of Crispus Attucks and Samuel Gray in the ‘Boston Massacre’. Pleading Benefit of Clergy,<\/em> the right to a lesser sentence for a first offender, their punishment is to be branded on the thumb.<\/p>\n 1775 \u2013 At Fort Ticonderoga, New York, troops under Henry Knox begins transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n 1776 \u2013 Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., holds its first meeting at the College of William & Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia<\/p>\n 1791 \u2013 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies, age 35, at his home in Vienna, Austria.<\/p>\n 1831 \u2013Defeated for re-election as President by Andrew Jackson in the election of 1828, but elected as a Congressional Representative for Massachusetts in the election of 1830, former President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives, where he serves for 8 terms.<\/p>\n 1848 \u2013 In a message to Congress, President Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 The 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, repealing the 18th Amendment authorizing prohibition.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 U.S. Navy Flight 19, a group of 5 Avenger<\/em> bombers on a training flight, disappears in the Bermuda Triangle.<\/p>\n 1955 \u2013 20 years after breaking away, the members of the Congress of Industrial Organizations remerge with the American Federation of Labor and form the AFL\u2013CIO.<\/p>\n 1964 \u2013 For heroism in battle against a much larger force of Viet Cong earlier in the year, U.S. Army Captain Roger Donlon, commanding officer of a Special Forces camp at Nam Dong, is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n 2007 \u2013 19 year old Robert A. Hawkins kills 8 people and wounds 4 before killing himself at a Von Maur department store, Westroads Mall, in Omaha, Nebraska<\/p>\n 2014 \u2013 Exploration Flight Test 1, the first flight test of the Orion<\/em> Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 World War II veteran and retired Senator Robert Dole, dies, age 98 at his home in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n 2022 \u2013 Actress Kirstie Alley, dies, age 71 at her home in Clearwater Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 5 1408 \u2013 The Mongolian Golden Horde, under Edigu Khan, reaches and besieges Moscow. 1578 \u2013 On his voyage of circumnavigation, Sir Francis Drake, sails through Strait of Magellan the raids Valparaiso. 1766 \u2013 In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale. 1770 \u2013 At trial, among others charged with Murder, British 29th … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62472"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98247,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62472\/revisions\/98247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}