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
- 771 –Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1775 –At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- 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.
- 1876 –Brooklyn Theater Fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn, NY.
- 1920 –Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
- 1934 –Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
- 1943 –World War II: U.S. Army Air Force begins attacking Germany’s secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
- 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 –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.
- 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.
- 1978 –The Soviet Union signs a “friendship treaty” with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
- 1995 –The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
- 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.
- 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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