December 05

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1492	Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.	The Arcade Fire	Haiti	Funeral
2.	1848	California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.	The Beach Boys	California Saga	Holland
3.	1933	Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States).	Saturday Looks Good to Me	Alcohol	All Your Summer Songs
4.	1945	Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.	My Morning Jacket	Bermuda Jighway	At Dawn
5.	1952	Great Smog of 1952: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow.	Kind of Like Spitting	Something in the Air	You Secretly Want Me Dead
6.	1955	E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.	Fats Domino	I'm Walkin'	I'm Walkin'

(Historical facts about December 05 are from Wikipedia.)