The Day Montgomery's Buses Ran Empty
On December 5, 1955, Montgomery's Black residents stayed off the city's buses — and a 26-year-old preacher named Martin Luther King Jr. found his voice.
On December 5
The Squadron That Vanished: Flight 19
On December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy bombers took off from Florida on a routine training flight — and vanished, giving birth to the Bermuda Triangle legend.
The Speech That Started the Gold Rush
On December 5, 1848, President James K. Polk told Congress that California's gold was real — and within a year, 100,000 fortune-seekers were racing west.