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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.
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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
- 1775 –At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- 1815 –Foundation of Maceió in Brazil.
- 1920 –Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
- 1932 –German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
- 1945 –Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
Who were born on December 5?
- 1661 –Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (d. 1724)
- 1886 –Pieter Oud, Dutch politician (d. 1968)
- 1897 –Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian (d. 1982)
- 1944 –Loukas Sideras, Greek drummer (Aphrodite’s Child)
- 1946 –Sarel van der Merwe, South African rally driver
Who died on December 5?
- 1758 –Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (b. 1688)
- 1951 –Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (b. 1889)
- 1989 –Sir John Pritchard, English conductor (b. 1921)
- 1995 –Lisa McPherson, American Scientology victim (b. 1959)
- 2008 –Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress (b. 1924)
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