Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 5

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 * 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issued the papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus, which gave the Dominican inquisitor Heinrich Kramer the explicit authority to prosecute witchcraft in Germany.
 * 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Continental Army colonel Henry Knox arrived at Fort Ticonderoga in New York to arrange the transport of 60 tons of artillery (depicted) to support the siege of Boston.
 * 1914 – The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition began in an attempt to make the first land crossing of Antarctica.
 * 1916 – Amid the First World War and following his loss of support in Parliament, British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith resigned.
 * 1936 – The 1936 Soviet constitution, also known as the "Stalin constitution", was adopted.
 * 1939 – The remains of Pedro II of Brazil, who was ousted and exiled in a republican coup, were buried after being repatriated.
 * 1945 – Flight 19, a squadron of five U.S. Navy torpedo bombers, disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle.
 * 1952 – The "Great Smog of London" began and lasted for five days, causing 12,000 deaths and leading to the Clean Air Act 1956.
 * 1965 – The "glasnost meeting" took place in Moscow, becoming the first demonstration in the Soviet Union after World War II and marking the beginning of the civil rights movement in the country.
 * 1972 – Gough Whitlam took office as the 21st Prime Minister of Australia and formed a duumvirate with his deputy Lance Barnard, ending 23 years of Liberal-Country Party government.
 * 1974 – The Birmingham Americans won the only World Bowl in World Football League history.
 * 1995 – Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 56 crashed shortly after takeoff from Nakhchivan Airport, killing 52 people on board.
 * 2007 – A nineteen-year-old gunman went on a shooting spree at a shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S., killing nine people, including himself.
 * Born/died: | Ealhswith |d|902| Joan, Countess of Flanders |d|1244| Phillis Wheatley |d|1784| James Guthrie |b|1792 Afanasy Fet |b|1820|Jacobus Anthonie Meessen |b|1836| John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe |b|1859| Arthur Currie |b|1875| Clyde Cessna |b|1879| Louise Bryant |b|1885|  Amrita Sher-Gil |d|1941| Princess Alice of Battenberg |d|1969| Clair Cameron Patterson |d|1995