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December 5

3 sourced moments from December 5 in history: President Polk confirmed the California gold strike to Congress (1848); Prohibition ended in the United States (1933); and The Great Smog of London Began (1952).

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3 things happened on December 5

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1952 Earth & Climate · Weather & Climate

The Great Smog of London Began

A killer cloud of coal smoke and freezing fog smothered London for five days, claiming thousands of lives.

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1933 Society & Economy · Politics & Law

Prohibition ended in the United States

The only constitutional amendment ever written to undo another one switched the taps back on after thirteen dry years.

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1848 Society & Economy · Economics

President Polk confirmed the California gold strike to Congress

An official line in a presidential message turned frontier rumor into a stampede of Forty-Niners.

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