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 On This Day: 5 December Minimum: -18.9oC - Alston, 1879 Average Max: 7.8oC Average Min: 2.6oC 1492 - Columbus discovers Hispaniola, modern day Haiti 1766 - London auctioneers Christie's hold their first sale 1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composer, dies in Vienna, Austria, aged 35yrs 1839 - Birth of George Armstrong Custer, General, of Little Big Horn fame, died in 1876 1861 - Gatling gun patented 1870 - Alexandre Dumas writer (The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo), dies at age 68 1887 - Stanley's expedition reaches plateau at Lake Albert, Congo 1928 - England defeats Australia by record 675 runs at Brisbane 1945 - Five US Navy Avengers with 14 crew from Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station disappear over the Atlantic Ocean, (The Bermuda Triangle). A search and rescue Mariner aircraft with a 13-man crew also disappears 1975 - NASA launches space vehicle S-196; it fails 1978 - European Union establishes European Monetary System (EMS) 1983 - Twelve killed by a car bomb shattering nine-story building in west Beirut, Lebanon 1985 - Christie's auctions a bottle of 1787 Château Lafite Bordeaux for a record price of £94,000. It is later found to be a modern fake 1988 - Shuttle Atlantis (STS-27) launches world's first nuclear-war-fighting satellite 1989 - France's TGV reaches world train record speed of 482.4 kph 1989 - The PM (Margaret Thatcher) defeats Sir Anthony Meyer in the first challenge to her leadership of the Conservative Party 1993 - 82nd Davis Cup: Germany beats Australia in Dusseldorf (4-1) 1993 - Astronauts begin repair of Hubble telescope in space 2001 - Death of Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (born 1948) - murdered by pirates 2003 - A suicide bombing on a commuter train in southern Russia kills 44 people Click here to be taken to lancer's Blog... Midlands Weather Forum |
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