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.
- 663 –Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
- 771 –Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman.
- 1590 –Niccolò Sfondrati becomes Pope Gregory XIV.
- 1746 –Revolt in Genoa against Spanish rule.
- 1815 –Foundation of Maceió in Brazil.
- 1847 –Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.
- 1865 –Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
- 1876 –Brooklyn Theater Fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn, NY.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1964 –Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
- 1976 –The United Nations General Assembly adopts Pakistan’s resolution on security of non-Nuclear States.
- 1978 –The Soviet Union signs a “friendship treaty” with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
- 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.
- 2006 –Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
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