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12/05/1941
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Football Writers Association of America organized
Type: Event
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12/05/1941
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Patrick Hamilton's "Angel Street," premieres in NYC
Type: Event
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12/05/1941
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Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army
Type: Event
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12/05/1941
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Sister Elizabeth Kenny new treatment for infantile paralysis approved
Type: Event
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12/05/1941
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US aircraft carrier Lexington/5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor
Type: Event
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12/05/1942
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CFL Grey Cup: Tor beats Win RCAF, 8 -5 at Toronto
Type: Event
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12/05/1942
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Seyss-Inquart orders students in nazi-Germany to go work
Type: Event
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12/05/1942
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West Indies chocolate/coffee drop above Netherland
Type: Event
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12/05/1942
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Randy Kirby, Chicago Ill, actor (Randy-Girl From UNCLE)
Type: Birth
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12/05/1942
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Buck Jones, Hollywood's last cowboy hero actor (Headin' East), buried
Type: Death
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12/05/1943
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NFL Phila Eagle-Pitts Steeler merger disolves
Type: Event
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12/05/1944
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German troops rob all the silver coin in Utrecht
Type: Event
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12/05/1944
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Jeroen Krabb‚, Amsterdam Netherlands, actor (Fugitive)
Type: Birth
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12/05/1945
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Jocelyn, Italian entertainer
Type: Birth
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12/05/1945
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J W "Corkey" Fornof, New Orleans, stunt coordinator (Octopussy)
Type: Birth
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12/05/1945
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Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl
Type: Event
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12/05/1945
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"Lost Squadron" crashes east of Florida (Bermuda Triangle)
Type: Event
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12/05/1946
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Andy Kim, [Andrew Joachim], rocker
Type: Birth
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12/05/1946
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Jos‚ Carreras, Barcelona Spain opera tenor (I Lombardi, Three Tenors)
Type: Birth
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12/05/1946
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Pres Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order #9808
Type: Event
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12/05/1947
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Jim Plunkett, San Jose, CA, NFL quarterback (New England, Oakland)
Type: Birth
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12/05/1947
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Joe Louis beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Type: Event
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12/05/1947
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Jim Messina, rocker (Loggins and Messina-Your Mamma Don't Dance)
Type: Birth
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12/05/1947
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Jugderdemidjin Gurragcha, Mongolia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 39)
Type: Birth
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12/05/1948
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NY Giant Charley Conerly sets NFL record of 36 pass completions
Type: Event
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12/05/1949
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Lanny [Jerry Lanston] Wadkins Richmond VA, PGA golfer (1972 Sahara)
Type: Birth
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12/05/1949
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Bruce E Melnick, NYC, Cmdr USCG/astronaut (STS 41, STS 49)
Type: Birth
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12/05/1949
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Lewis Arlt, Kingston NY, actor (Littlest Victims, Ken-Another World)
Type: Birth
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12/05/1949
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Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for heavyweight boxing title
Type: Event
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12/05/1950
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Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India
Type: Event
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12/05/1950
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Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
Type: Event
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12/05/1951
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Morgan Brittany, [Suzanne Cupito], LA Cal, actress (Katherine-Dallas)
Type: Birth
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12/05/1951
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Thomas Warren Purtzer, Des Moines IA, PGA golfer (1977 Glen Campbell)
Type: Birth
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12/05/1951
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"Shoeless" Joe Jackson, of baseball's black sox scandal, dies
Type: Death
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12/05/1951
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"Dragnet" premieres
Type: Event
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12/05/1952
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-8] worst smog in London ever, 4-8,000 die
Type: Event
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12/05/1952
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Bobby Barth, rocker vocalist/guitarist (Axe)
Type: Birth
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12/05/1953
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Jonathan Lewis, trombonist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
Type: Birth
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12/05/1953
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Larry Zbyszko, [Living Legend, Whistler], wrestler (WCW/AWA/NWA/WWF)
Type: Birth
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12/05/1954
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KTEW (now KJRH) TV channel 2 in Tulsa, OK (NBC) begins broadcasting
Type: Event
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12/05/1954
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Kathryn Young, LPGA golfer
Type: Birth
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12/05/1955
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Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama by Rosa Parks
Type: Event
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12/05/1955
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Paul Harvey, actor (Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree), dies at 73
Type: Death
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12/05/1955
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AFL and CIO merge, with George Meany as president
Type: Event
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12/05/1956
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Thornton Wilder's "Matchmaker," premieres in NYC
Type: Event
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12/05/1957
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Charlene Morett, Darby Pa, field hockey left wing (Oly-bronze-1984)
Type: Birth
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12/05/1957
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Art Monk, NFL wide receiver (Wash Redskins, Phila Eagles)
Type: Birth
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12/05/1957
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NYC is 1st city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)
Type: Event
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12/05/1957
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Phil Collen, English heavy-metal guitarist (Def Leppard-Love Bites)
Type: Birth
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12/05/1957
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William Inge's "Dark at the Top of the Stairs," premieres in NYC
Type: Event
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