What happened this day in history December 5

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, 28,889,280 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 ‘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

  • 663
    Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
  • 1408
    Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
  • 1590
    Niccolò Sfondrati becomes Pope Gregory XIV.
  • 1775
    At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • 1815
    Foundation of Maceió in Brazil.
  • 1848
    California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
  • 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.
  • 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 Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Who were born on December 5?

  • 1871
    Bill Pickett, American rodeo performer (d. 1932)
  • 1898
    Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (d. 1982)
  • 1907
    Lin Biao, Chinese Communist military leader (d. 1971)
  • 1927
    Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand
  • 1958
    Dean Erickson, American actor
  • 1965
    Wayne Smith, Jamaican reggae musician
  • 1966
    Lee Seung-Chul, South Korean singer
  • 1975
    Ronnie O'Sullivan, English snooker player
  • 1979
    Matteo Ferrari, Italian footballer
  • 1979
    Nick Stahl, American actor

Who died on December 5?

  • 1925
    Władysław Reymont, Polish writer and Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
  • 1940
    Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (b. 1880)
  • 1961
    Emil Fuchs, German-born American attorney and baseball team owner (b. 1878)
  • 1963
    Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Pakistani statesman (b. 1892)
  • 1977
    Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet military commander (b. 1895)
  • 1979
    Jesse Pearson, American actor (b. 1930)
  • 1986
    Sir Edward Youde, Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924)
  • 1991
    Richard Speck, American mass murderer (b. 1941)
  • 2006
    David Bronstein, Ukrainian-born chess grandmaster (b. 1924)
  • 2011
    Peter Gethin, British racing driver (b. 1940)

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