December 5th, 2008

Today in History

1484:
Pope Innocent VIII writes a Papal Bull that sets the inquisition into full swing and leads to the deaths hundreds of thousands of people accused of being witches

1492:
Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).

1560:
Francis II of France dies and is succeeded by Charles IX of France.

1945:
Flight 19, a United States Navy training flight was lost in the Bermuda Triangle.

1974:
The last new episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcast on the BBC.