12-05-2005, 06:43 AM
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December 5th
1766 ~ James Christie held his first sale in London. He later founded Christie's, the world's oldest auction house.
1791 ~ Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer.
1839 ~ Birthday of George Armstrong Custer, American general.
1890 ~ Birthday of Fritz Lang, film director.
1901 ~ Birthday of Werner Karl Heisenberg, physicist.
1901 ~ Birthday of Walt Disney, film producer.
1926 ~ Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, debuted.
1933 ~ Prohibition ends: The Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified. This overturned the 18th Amendment, which had outlawed the inter-state sale of alcohol.
1945 ~ A U.S. Navy training flight, Flight 19, was lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
1978 ~ The Soviet Union signs a "friendship treaty" with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
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