December 5. President Polk starts California Gold Rush, announcing the discovery in 1849.

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December 5, 1849.Apple crate label from California, harking back to the good old Gold Rush days one hundred years before.

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December 5. Ed Summers is born in 1884.

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December 4. Woodrow Wilson Conducts Peace Talks in 1918.