About December 5

December 5, 2023 is the 339th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 26 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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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 67 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.
  • 1408
    Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
  • 1496
    King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree of expulsion of “heretics” from the country.
  • 1766
    In London, James Christie holds his first sale.
  • 1775
    At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • 1847
    Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.
  • 1848
    California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
  • 1865
    Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
  • 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.
  • 1945
    Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
  • 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.
  • 1955
    The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO.
  • 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.
  • 1983
    Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
  • 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 Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • 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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