About December 5
December 5, 2020 is the 340th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 26 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 69 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 5
- 663 –Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1831 –Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
- 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.
- 1920 –Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
- 1932 –German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
- 1936 –The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
- 1945 –Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1978 –The Soviet Union signs a “friendship treaty” with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
- 1993 –The mayor of Wien (Vienna), Helmut Zilk, is wounded by a letter bomb.
- 2005 –The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
- 2006 –Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
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