December 5 - Lunch

Lunch

This Day In History

306

Martyrdom of Saint Barbara.
663
Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.

1492

Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

1766

In London, James Christie holds his first sale.

1831

Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.

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).

1945

Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.

1989

The last of the original ARPANET IMPs is shut down.

Famous Birthdays

1666

Francesco Scarlatti, Italian composer and musician (d. c. 1741)

1782

Martin Van Buren, President of the United States (d. 1862)

1830

Christina Rossetti, English poet (d. 1894)

1879

Clyde Cessna, American airplane manufacturer (d. 1954)

1890

Fritz Lang, Austrian-born film director (d. 1976)

1901

Walter Elias "Walt" Disney, American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist (d. 1966)

1906

Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director, producer, and actor (d. 1986)

1932

Little Richard, American singer and pianist

1957

Art Monk, American football player

1973

Shalom Harlow, Canadian model and actress

1976

Amy Acker, American actress