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
- 1082 –Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
- 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.
- 1492 –Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
- 1590 –Niccolò Sfondrati becomes Pope Gregory XIV.
- 1746 –Revolt in Genoa against Spanish rule.
- 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.
- 1775 –At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- 1920 –Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
- 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).
- 1934 –Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
- 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.
- 1955 –The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO.
- 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.
- 1976 –The United Nations General Assembly adopts Pakistan’s resolution on security of non-Nuclear States.
- 1995 –The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
- 2005 –The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 2006 –Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
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