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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