About December 5
December 5, 2024 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.
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Sagittarius is the sun 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.
What Happened On December 5
- 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.
- 1496 –King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree of expulsion of “heretics” from the country.
- 1590 –Niccolò Sfondrati becomes Pope Gregory XIV.
- 1746 –Revolt in Genoa against Spanish rule.
- 1815 –Foundation of Maceió in Brazil.
- 1831 –Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
- 1847 –Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.
- 1876 –Brooklyn Theater Fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn, NY.
- 1914 –The Italian Parliament proclaims the neutrality of the country.
- 1936 –The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
- 1941 –World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
- 1941 –World War II: In the Battle of Moscow Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.
- 1943 –World War II: U.S. Army Air Force begins attacking Germany’s secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
- 1945 –Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
- 1955 –E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 1995 –The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
- 2006 –Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
- 2007 –Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.
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