{"id":812683,"date":"2024-12-17T22:23:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T04:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/on-this-day-dec-5-black-americans-declare-boycott-of-montgomery-ala-buses\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T22:23:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T04:23:44","slug":"on-this-day-dec-5-black-americans-declare-boycott-of-montgomery-ala-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/on-this-day-dec-5-black-americans-declare-boycott-of-montgomery-ala-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Dec. 5: Black Americans declare boycott of Montgomery, Ala., buses"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 of 6 | Rosa Parks sits up front of a Montgomery, Ala., bus with UPI reporter Nicholas Chriss on December 21,1956, one year after she refused to give up her seat to a white man and was arrested. On December 5, 1955, her arrest prompted a boycott of city buses. UPI File Photo <\/p>\n

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Dec. 5 (UPI) —<\/span> On this date in history:<\/p>\n

In 1776, the first scholastic fraternity in America, Phi Beta Kappa, was organized at William and Mary College in Virginia.\n<\/p>\n

In 1933, prohibition of liquor<\/a> in the United States was repealed when Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n

In 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers disappeared<\/a> on a routine flight in the area of the Atlantic known as the Bermuda Triangle. Fourteen airmen on the planes were lost and 13 others in a search plane killed.<\/p>\n

In 1955, in one of the early civil rights actions in the South, Black Americans declared a boycott of city buses in Montgomery, Ala.<\/a>, demanding seating on an equal basis with white people. The boycott was prompted by the arrest of Rosa Parks, a Black woman who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man.<\/p>\n

In 1988, a UPI poll of U.S. newspaper and broadcast editors named President-elect George H.W. Bush and incoming first lady Barbara Bush as male and female newsmakers of the year<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

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In 1993, Rafael Caldera Rodriguez was elected president of Venezuela.<\/p>\n

In 2001, factions in war-shaken Afghanistan agreed on an interim government, naming Hamid Karzai as their new leader<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2002, U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., celebrated his 100th birthday on Capitol Hill<\/a>. Thurmond, who retired the following year, had served in the Senate since 1954, making him both the longest-serving and oldest member of Congress. He died June 27, 2003.<\/p>\n

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In 2008, former NFL star O.J. Simpson was sentenced<\/a> to up to 33 years in prison for holding up two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel. He was released in October 2017.<\/p>\n

In 2009, an explosion and fire ignited by fireworks killed 156 people<\/a> and injured dozens of others at a Russian nightclub in the Urals.<\/p>\n

In 2013, Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison and helped end apartheid in South Africa, died in Johannesburg at the age of 95<\/a>. “He is now resting. He is now at peace,” President Jacob Zuma said. “Our nation has lost its greatest son. Our people have lost a father.”\n<\/p>\n

In 2014, NASA successfully test launched<\/a> its Orion spacecraft, its hope for the future of manned space travel and an eventual trip to Mars.<\/p>\n

In 2017, the International Olympic Committee banned the entire Russian Olympic team from the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea over a doping scandal<\/a>. Select Russian olympians were allowed to participate under the team name “Olympic athletes from Russia.”<\/p>\n

In 2022, construction began in Australia on the Square Kilometre Array, which is expected to produce the highest-resolution — and fastest — images in all of astronomy. A second phase of the project, which is headquartered<\/a> at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Britain, will include construction in South Africa.<\/p>\n

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