What are the important events that happened on December 5? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
December 5: Facts & Myths About This Day
December 5 is the 340th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 26 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 22, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 481,488 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatetracontagon’ day.
Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 55 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,367 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 5 Historical Events
- 1492 –Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
- 1815 –Foundation of Maceió in Brazil.
- 1865 –Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
- 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).
- 1945 –Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
- 1957 –Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
- 1958 –Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
- 1977 –Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen. The move is in retaliation for the Declaration of Tripoli against Egypt.
- 2005 –The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
- 2007 –Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.
Who were born on December 5?
- 1377 –Jianwen Emperor of China (d. 1402)
- 1803 –Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev, Russian poet (d. 1873)
- 1829 –Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French Canadian politician (d. 1908)
- 1936 –James Lee Burke, American writer
- 1951 –Morgan Brittany, American actress
- 1954 –Gary Roenicke, American baseball player
- 1968 –Lisa Marie, American model and actress
- 1969 –Lewis Gordon Pugh, English swimmer, polar explorer and motivational speaker
- 1979 –Gareth McAuley, Northern Irish footballer
- 1989 –Yuri (Kwon Yu-ri), South Korean singer (Girls’ Generation)
Who died on December 5?
- 1624 –Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560)
- 1819 –Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750)
- 1918 –Schalk Willem Burger, South African politician (b. 1852)
- 1991 –Richard Speck, American mass murderer (b. 1941)
- 1998 –Al Gore, Sr., American politician (b. 1907)
- 2002 –Roone Arledge, American sports broadcaster (b. 1931)
- 2005 –Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (b. 1905)
- 2008 –Anca Parghel, Romanian jazz singer and composer (b. 1957)
- 2009 –Princess Vimolchatra of Thailand (b. 1921)
- 2011 –Peter Gethin, British racing driver (b. 1940)
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