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 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 26 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 22, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,764,892,800 seconds 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 74 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 4,732 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 5 Historical Events
- 771 –Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman.
- 1082 –Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
- 1815 –Foundation of Maceió in Brazil.
- 1914 –The Italian Parliament proclaims the neutrality of the country.
- 1920 –Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
- 1932 –German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
- 1941 –World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2005 –The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
Who were born on December 5?
- 1595 –Henry Lawes, English composer (d. 1662)
- 1855 –Clinton Hart Merriam, American ornithologist (d. 1942)
- 1875 –Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian soldier (d. 1933)
- 1886 –Rose Wilder Lane, American writer and reporter, daughter of ‘Little House’books writer Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1968)
- 1890 –Fritz Lang, Austrian-born film director (d. 1976)
- 1917 –Ken Downing, English racing driver (d. 2004)
- 1945 –Serge Chapleau, French Canadian caricaturist
- 1950 –Osvaldo Golijov, Argentine-born composer
- 1979 –Nick Stahl, American actor
- 1985 –Nico Verdonck, Belgian racing driver
Who died on December 5?
- 1355 –John III, Duke of Brabant (b. 1300)
- 1870 –Alexandre Dumas, père, French writer (b. 1802)
- 1918 –Schalk Willem Burger, South African politician (b. 1852)
- 1951 –Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (b. 1889)
- 1968 –Fred Clark, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1969 –Claudius Dornier, German aircraft designer (b. 1884)
- 1983 –Robert Aldrich, American film director (b. 1918)
- 2007 –Andrew Imbrie, American composer (b. 1921)
- 2007 –Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (b. 1928)
- 2009 –Princess Vimolchatra of Thailand (b. 1921)
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