December 5
1776 - The first scholastic fraternity in America, Phi Beta Kappa, was organized at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
1791 - Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna, Austria at age 35.
1792 - George Washington and John Adams were re-elected president and vice president of the United States, respectively.
1848 - President James K. Polk triggered the Gold Rush of 1848 by confirming gold had been discovered in California.
1872 - Having left New York on November 5, the brigantine Mary Celeste was found adrift off the coast of Portugal with everyone aboard mysteriously missing.
1932 - German physicist Albert Einstein was granted a visa, making it possible for him to travel to the United States.
1933 - The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which repealed prohibition and the 18th Amendment, was ratified.
1955 - The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to form the AFL-CIO.
1994 - Republicans chose Newt Gingrich to be the first GOP speaker of the House in four decades.
2002 - At Sen. Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday celebration, Senate Republican leader Trent Lott praised Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential bid. Lott subsequently resigned his leadership position.
2004 - Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president.
2009 - An Italian jury convicted American student Amanda Knox of murdering her former roommate, English student Meredith Kercher, in 2007. (After a series of back-and-forth rulings, Knox and Sollecito were definitively acquitted in 2015 by Italy’s highest court.)
2013 - Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa's first Black president, died at age 95.
2017 - Democratic congressman John Conyers of Michigan resigned from Congress after a nearly 53-year career, becoming the first Capitol Hill politician to lose his job amid the sexual misconduct allegations sweeping through the nation’s workplaces.
2018 - Former President George H.W. Bush was mourned at a memorial service at Washington National Cathedral attended by President Donald Trump and former Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter along with their spouses; former president George W. Bush was among the speakers, eulogizing his dad as “the brightest of a thousand points of light.”
2019 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she had asked the relevant House committee chairs to begin drawing up articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, saying his actions left them “no choice” but to act swiftly; in response, Trump tweeted that Democrats had “gone crazy.” (Trump would be impeached by the House on charges of obstruction and abuse of power, but the Senate voted to acquit in the first of two Trump impeachment trials.)
2020 - At a Georgia rally where he urged supporters to turn out for a pair of Republican Senate candidates in a January runoff election, President Donald Trump spread baseless allegations of misconduct in the November voting in Georgia and beyond. Hours before the rally, according to officials with knowledge of the call, Trump asked Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp to order a special legislative session to give him the state’s electoral votes, even though Joe Biden had won the majority of the vote; Kemp refused to do so.
2021 - Bob Dole, who overcame disabling war wounds to become a sharp-tongued Senate leader from Kansas, a Republican presidential candidate and then a symbol and celebrant of his dwindling generation of World War II veterans, died at 98.
Birthdays
25 - Sophie Sminett (actress)
26 - Georgia Hassarati (model)
28 - Alexandra Beaton (actress)
31 - Christian Yelich (baseball player)
34 - Ross Bagley (actor)
37 - Frankie Muniz (actor)
38 - Lauren London (actress)
40 - Gabriel Luna (actor)
40 - Keri Hilson (singer)
41 - Adan Canto (actor)
43 - Nick Stahl (actor)
46 - Amy Acker (actress)
47 - Paula Patton (actress)
51 - Kali Rocha (actress)
53 - Catherine Tate (actress)
53 - Alex Kapp Horner (actor)
54 - Margaret Cho (actress/comedian)
55 - Gary Allan (singer)
59 - Ty England (singer)
65 - Art Monk (football player)
66 - Brian Backer (actor)
71 - Morgan Brittany (actress)
75 - Jim Plunkett (football player)
75 - Jim Messina (singer)
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Today in Sports History - December 5
1891 - Doane defeats Nebraska 32-0.
1908 - At the University of Pittsburgh, numerals were first used on football uniforms worn by college football players.
1931 - Nebraska defeats Colorado State 20-7 in a postseason charity game, to finish with an 8-2 record.
1970 - The Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy and the Bill Masterson trophy were stolen from the NHL Hall of Fame.
1972 - Nebraska wingback Johnny Rodgers wins the Heisman Trophy.
1973 - Ron Santo became the first major league player to veto his trade.
1978 - Pete Rose signed with the Philadelphia Phillies. The contract was for four years and $3.2 million making Rose the highest paid athlete in team sports.
1981 - USC running back Marcus Allen wins the Heisman Trophy.
1983 - Steve Howe (Los Angeles Dodgers) was suspended for 1 year for cocaine use.
1983 - The video arcade game "NFL Football" was unveiled in Chicago. It was the first video arcade game to be licensed by the National Football League.
1987 - Notre Dame wide receiver Tim Brown wins the Heisman Trophy.
1992 - #11 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 38-24 in Tokyo, Japan; with the win, Nebraska won the Big 8 championship.
1995 - Dan Marino (Miami Dolphins) passed for 300 yards in a game for the 52nd time to set an NFL record.
2000 - Karl Malone (Utah Jazz) moved past Wilt Chamberlain into second place on the NBA's all-time scoring list.
2006 - Greg Maddux signs a one-year contract with the San Diego Padres worth $10 million.
2008 - Former football star O.J. Simpson is sentenced to 33 years in prison for kidnapping and armed robbery.
2009 - #3 Texas defeats #21 Nebraska 13-12 in the Big 12 Championship Game in Arlington, Texas.
2017 - The International Olympic Committee barred Russia and its sports leaders from the upcoming Winter Olympics in South Korea after concluding that members of the Russian government concocted a doping scheme at the 2014 Sochi Games; some Russians would be able to compete as “Olympic Athletes from Russia.”
2020 - Nebraska defeats Purdue 37-27.
2021 - Buck O'Neil, Minnie Minoso, Gil Hodges and three others were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1776 - The first scholastic fraternity in America, Phi Beta Kappa, was organized at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
1791 - Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna, Austria at age 35.
1792 - George Washington and John Adams were re-elected president and vice president of the United States, respectively.
1848 - President James K. Polk triggered the Gold Rush of 1848 by confirming gold had been discovered in California.
1872 - Having left New York on November 5, the brigantine Mary Celeste was found adrift off the coast of Portugal with everyone aboard mysteriously missing.
1932 - German physicist Albert Einstein was granted a visa, making it possible for him to travel to the United States.
1933 - The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which repealed prohibition and the 18th Amendment, was ratified.
1955 - The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to form the AFL-CIO.
1994 - Republicans chose Newt Gingrich to be the first GOP speaker of the House in four decades.
2002 - At Sen. Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday celebration, Senate Republican leader Trent Lott praised Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential bid. Lott subsequently resigned his leadership position.
2004 - Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president.
2009 - An Italian jury convicted American student Amanda Knox of murdering her former roommate, English student Meredith Kercher, in 2007. (After a series of back-and-forth rulings, Knox and Sollecito were definitively acquitted in 2015 by Italy’s highest court.)
2013 - Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa's first Black president, died at age 95.
2017 - Democratic congressman John Conyers of Michigan resigned from Congress after a nearly 53-year career, becoming the first Capitol Hill politician to lose his job amid the sexual misconduct allegations sweeping through the nation’s workplaces.
2018 - Former President George H.W. Bush was mourned at a memorial service at Washington National Cathedral attended by President Donald Trump and former Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter along with their spouses; former president George W. Bush was among the speakers, eulogizing his dad as “the brightest of a thousand points of light.”
2019 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she had asked the relevant House committee chairs to begin drawing up articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, saying his actions left them “no choice” but to act swiftly; in response, Trump tweeted that Democrats had “gone crazy.” (Trump would be impeached by the House on charges of obstruction and abuse of power, but the Senate voted to acquit in the first of two Trump impeachment trials.)
2020 - At a Georgia rally where he urged supporters to turn out for a pair of Republican Senate candidates in a January runoff election, President Donald Trump spread baseless allegations of misconduct in the November voting in Georgia and beyond. Hours before the rally, according to officials with knowledge of the call, Trump asked Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp to order a special legislative session to give him the state’s electoral votes, even though Joe Biden had won the majority of the vote; Kemp refused to do so.
2021 - Bob Dole, who overcame disabling war wounds to become a sharp-tongued Senate leader from Kansas, a Republican presidential candidate and then a symbol and celebrant of his dwindling generation of World War II veterans, died at 98.
Birthdays
25 - Sophie Sminett (actress)
26 - Georgia Hassarati (model)
28 - Alexandra Beaton (actress)
31 - Christian Yelich (baseball player)
34 - Ross Bagley (actor)
37 - Frankie Muniz (actor)
38 - Lauren London (actress)
40 - Gabriel Luna (actor)
40 - Keri Hilson (singer)
41 - Adan Canto (actor)
43 - Nick Stahl (actor)
46 - Amy Acker (actress)
47 - Paula Patton (actress)
51 - Kali Rocha (actress)
53 - Catherine Tate (actress)
53 - Alex Kapp Horner (actor)
54 - Margaret Cho (actress/comedian)
55 - Gary Allan (singer)
59 - Ty England (singer)
65 - Art Monk (football player)
66 - Brian Backer (actor)
71 - Morgan Brittany (actress)
75 - Jim Plunkett (football player)
75 - Jim Messina (singer)
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Today in Sports History - December 5
1891 - Doane defeats Nebraska 32-0.
1908 - At the University of Pittsburgh, numerals were first used on football uniforms worn by college football players.
1931 - Nebraska defeats Colorado State 20-7 in a postseason charity game, to finish with an 8-2 record.
1970 - The Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy and the Bill Masterson trophy were stolen from the NHL Hall of Fame.
1972 - Nebraska wingback Johnny Rodgers wins the Heisman Trophy.
1973 - Ron Santo became the first major league player to veto his trade.
1978 - Pete Rose signed with the Philadelphia Phillies. The contract was for four years and $3.2 million making Rose the highest paid athlete in team sports.
1981 - USC running back Marcus Allen wins the Heisman Trophy.
1983 - Steve Howe (Los Angeles Dodgers) was suspended for 1 year for cocaine use.
1983 - The video arcade game "NFL Football" was unveiled in Chicago. It was the first video arcade game to be licensed by the National Football League.
1987 - Notre Dame wide receiver Tim Brown wins the Heisman Trophy.
1992 - #11 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 38-24 in Tokyo, Japan; with the win, Nebraska won the Big 8 championship.
1995 - Dan Marino (Miami Dolphins) passed for 300 yards in a game for the 52nd time to set an NFL record.
2000 - Karl Malone (Utah Jazz) moved past Wilt Chamberlain into second place on the NBA's all-time scoring list.
2006 - Greg Maddux signs a one-year contract with the San Diego Padres worth $10 million.
2008 - Former football star O.J. Simpson is sentenced to 33 years in prison for kidnapping and armed robbery.
2009 - #3 Texas defeats #21 Nebraska 13-12 in the Big 12 Championship Game in Arlington, Texas.
2017 - The International Olympic Committee barred Russia and its sports leaders from the upcoming Winter Olympics in South Korea after concluding that members of the Russian government concocted a doping scheme at the 2014 Sochi Games; some Russians would be able to compete as “Olympic Athletes from Russia.”
2020 - Nebraska defeats Purdue 37-27.
2021 - Buck O'Neil, Minnie Minoso, Gil Hodges and three others were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
