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
- 1492 –Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
- 1496 –King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree of expulsion of “heretics” from the country.
- 1776 –At The College of William and Mary, Phi Beta Kappa is founded and becomes the first American college fraternity.
- 1865 –Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
- 1876 –Brooklyn Theater Fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn, NY.
- 1914 –The Italian Parliament proclaims the neutrality of the country.
- 1920 –Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
- 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).
- 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.
- 1945 –Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
- 1955 –E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 1955 –The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO.
- 1957 –Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
- 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.
- 1983 –ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal in the same year.
- 2005 –The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
- 2005 –The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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