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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 339th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 26 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 22, 2022 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 27,836,640 minutes 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 ‘trihectatriacontaenneagon’ 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 48 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 3,636 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 5 Historical Events
- 1932 –German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
- 1936 –The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
- 1944 –World War II: Allied troops occupy Ravenna.
- 1955 –E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 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.
Who were born on December 5?
- 1661 –Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (d. 1724)
- 1895 –Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician (d. 1969)
- 1902 –Emeric Pressburger, Hungarian-British screenwriter, film director, and producer (d. 1988)
- 1956 –Klaus Allofs, German footballer
- 1975 –Ronnie O'Sullivan, English snooker player
Who died on December 5?
- 63 BC –Publius Cornelius Lentulus (Sura), Roman statesman
- 1989 –Sir John Pritchard, English conductor (b. 1921)
- 1995 –Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (b. 1920)
- 2005 –Ed Masry, American lawyer (b. 1932)
- 2007 –George Paraskevaides, Greek-Cypriot businessman and philanthropist (b. 1916)
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