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
- 663 –Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
- 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.
- 1746 –Revolt in Genoa against Spanish rule.
- 1776 –At The College of William and Mary, Phi Beta Kappa is founded and becomes the first American college fraternity.
- 1920 –Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
- 1932 –German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
- 1934 –Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II: U.S. Army Air Force begins attacking Germany’s secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
- 1944 –World War II: Allied troops occupy Ravenna.
- 1952 –Great Smog of 1952: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow.
- 1957 –Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
- 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.
- 1978 –The Soviet Union signs a “friendship treaty” with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
- 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.
- 1983 –Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
- 1995 –The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
- 2006 –Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
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