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, 490,248 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 ‘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
- 63 BC –Cicero gave the fourth and final Catiline Orations.
- 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.
- 1590 –Niccolò Sfondrati becomes Pope Gregory XIV.
- 1757 –Seven Years’ War: Battle of Leuthen – Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
- 1944 –World War II: Allied troops occupy Ravenna.
- 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.
- 1976 –The United Nations General Assembly adopts Pakistan’s resolution on security of non-Nuclear States.
- 1993 –The mayor of Wien (Vienna), Helmut Zilk, is wounded by a letter bomb.
Who were born on December 5?
- 1859 –John Jellicoe, British admiral (d. 1935)
- 1890 –David Bomberg, English painter (d. 1957)
- 1917 –Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress
- 1931 –Ladislav Novák, Czech footballer (d. 2011)
- 1946 –José Carreras, Spanish tenor
- 1951 –Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Belgian artist
- 1952 –Andy Kim, Canadian singer, songwriter
- 1959 –Lee Chapman, English footballer
- 1968 –Margaret Cho, American comedian and actress
- 1973 –Luboš Motl, Czech physicist
Who died on December 5?
- 1784 –Phillis Wheatley, American poet (b. 1753)
- 1931 –Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
- 1946 –Louis Dewis, Belgian post-impressionist painter (b. 1872)
- 1969 –Claudius Dornier, German aircraft designer (b. 1884)
- 1973 –Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer and inventor (b. 1892)
- 1983 –Robert Aldrich, American film director (b. 1918)
- 1995 –Lisa McPherson, American Scientology victim (b. 1959)
- 1998 –Al Gore, Sr., American politician (b. 1907)
- 2008 –Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress (b. 1924)
- 2011 –Gennady Logofet, Russian footballer (b. 1942)
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