1 of 6 | Rosa Parks sits up front of a Montgomery, Ala., bus with UPI pressreporter Nicholas Chriss on December 21,1956, one year after she declined to offer up her seat to a white guy and was jailed. On December 5, 1955, her arrest triggered a boycott of city buses. UPI File Photo
Dec. 5 (UPI) — On this date in history:
In 1776, the veryfirst scholastic fraternity in America, Phi Beta Kappa, was arranged at William and Mary College in Virginia.
In 1933, restriction of alcohol in the United States was reversed when Utah endedupbeing the 36th state to validate the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
In 1945, 5 U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers vanished on a regular flight in the location of the Atlantic understood as the Bermuda Triangle. Fourteen airmen on the airplanes were lost and 13 others in a search aircraft eliminated.
In 1955, in one of the early civil rights actions in the South, Black Americans stated a boycott of city buses in Montgomery, Ala., requiring seating on an equivalent basis with white individuals. The boycott was triggered by the arrest of Rosa Parks, a Black lady who declined to provide up her bus seat to a white male.
In 1988, a UPI survey of U.S. paper and broadcast editors called President-elect George H.W. Bush and inbound veryfirst woman Barbara Bush as male and woman newsmakers of the year.
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In 1993, Rafael Caldera Rodriguez was chose president of Venezuela.
In 2001, factions in war-shaken Afghanistan concurred on an interim federalgovernment, identifying Hamid Karzai as their brand-new leader.
In 2002, U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., wellknown his 100th birthday on Capitol Hill. Thurmond, who retired the following year, had served in the Senate because 1954, making him both the longest-serving and earliest member of Congress. He passedaway June 27, 2003.
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In 2008, previous NFL star O.J. Simpson was sentenced to up to 33 years in jail for holding up 2 sports souvenirs dealerships at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel. He was launched in October 2017.