About December 5
December 5, 2025 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.
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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 74 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.
- 1408 –Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
- 1484 –Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany and leads to one of the most oppressive witch hunts in European history.
- 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.
- 1766 –In London, James Christie holds his first sale.
- 1815 –Foundation of Maceió in Brazil.
- 1914 –The Italian Parliament proclaims the neutrality of the country.
- 1932 –German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
- 1933 –Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States).
- 1936 –The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
- 1945 –Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
- 1955 –E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 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.
- 1958 –The Preston bypass, the UK’s first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.
- 1974 –In American football, the Birmingham Americans would win what would eventually be the only World Bowl in World Football League history.
- 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.
- 1979 –Sonia Johnson is formally excommunicated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for her outspoken criticism of the church concerning the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
- 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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