5 December
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The 5t o December is the 339t day o the year (340t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 26 days bidin.
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Events
- 1492 - Christopher Columbus reaches the island o Hispaniola.
- 1560 - Charles IX o Fraunce becomes King.
- 1792 - George Washington is re-electit Preses o the Unitit States bi the Electoral College.
- 1847 - Jefferson Davis is electit tae the Unitit States Senate.
- 1876 - The Brooklyn Theatre fire kills 278 fowk.
- 1894 - The Reichstag biggin in Berlin comes intae use.
- 1916 - H. H. Asquith resigns as Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
- 1926 - Sergei Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin premieres.
- 1932 - Albert Einstein gets a Unitit States visa.
- 1936 - The Soviet Union introduces a new Stalinist Constitiution.
- 1955 - American Ceevil Richts: The Montgomery Bus Boycott stairts.
- 1957 - The Soviet Union's "Lenin" icebreaker is completit.
- 1958 - Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) wis stairtit in the Unitit Kinrick bi the Queen whan she caa'd frae Bristol ti Edinburgh an spak ti the Laird Provost Archived 2005-07-29 at the Wayback Machine.
- 1983 - Argentinae's militar junta is dissolved.
- 1991 - Leonid Kravchuk is electit the first Preses o Ukraine.
- 2003 - The Icelandic leid Wikipaedia publishes its first articles.
- 2005 - The Ceevil Pairtnership Act for same-sex couples enters intae force in the Unitit Kinrick.
- 2013 - Umwhile Preses o Sooth Africae Nelson Mandela dies agit 95.
- 2015 - Storm Desmond hits the Unitit Kinrick.
- 2016 - Prime meenister o New Zealand John Key propales his demission.
- 2017 - Roushie is banned frae the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Sooth Korea bi the Internaitional Olympic Committee, for dopin offences.
- 2017 - Austrick's heichest coort rules in favour o same-sex mairage.
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Births
- 1443 - Pape Julius II (d. 1513)
- 1782 - Martin Van Buren, 8t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1862)
- 1803 - Fyodor Tyutchev, Roushie poet (d. 1873)
- 1839 - George Armstrong Custer, American general (d. 1876)
- 1867 - Jozef Pilsudski, Pols statesman (d. 1935)
- 1868 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German pheesicist (d. 1951)
- 1890 - Fritz Lang, Austrick-German film director (d. 1976)
- 1901 - Walt Disney, American film producer (d. 1966)
- 1901 - Jimmy Fleming, Scots fitbawer (d. 1969)
- 1901 - Werner Heisenberg, German pheesicist (d. 1976)
- 1902 - Strom Thurmond, American politeecian (d. 2003)
- 1903 - Johannes Heesters, Dutch-born sangster an actor (d. 2011)
- 1903 - C. F. Powell, Inglis pheesicist (d. 1969)
- 1907 - Lin Biao, Cheenese politeecian (d. 1971)
- 1927 - Bhumibol Adulyadej, Keeng o Thailand (d. 2016)
- 1932 - Sheldon Lee Glashow, American theoretical pheesicist
- 1932 - Little Richard, American sangster
- 1945 - Moshe Katsav, umwhile Preses o Israel
- 1946 - José Carreras, Spaingie tenor
- 1964 - Keith Robertson, Scots rugby union player
- 1969 - Sajid Javid, Inglis politeecian
- 1971 - Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, German politeecian
- 1975 - Ronnie O'Sullivan, Inglis snooker player
- 1982 - Stephen Dobbie, Scots fitbawer
- 1982 - Keri Hilson, American sangster
- 1985 - Frankie Muniz, American actor
- 1995 - Anthony Martial, French fitbawer
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Daiths
- 1560 - Francis II o Fraunce (b. 1544)
- 1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrick componer (b. 1756)
- 1870 - Alexandre Dumas, French writer (b. 1802)
- 1891 - Pedro II o Brazil (b. 1825)
- 1926 - Claude Monet, French penter (b. 1840)
- 1945 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist (b. 1866)
- 1950 - Sri Aurobindo, Indie politeecian, philosopher, meestic, yogi an guru (b. 1872)
- 1973 - Robert Watson-Watt, Scots inventor (b. 1892)
- 2007 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German componer (b. 1928)
- 2012 - Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian airchitect (b. 1907)
- 2013 - Nelson Mandela, Preses o Sooth Africae (b. 1918)
- 2015 - William McIlvanney, Scots writer (b. 1936)
- 2016 - Jayalalithaa, Indie actress an politeecian (b. 1948)
- 2017 - Michael I o Romanie (b. 1921)
Halidays
- Sinterklaas (Netherlands an Belgium)
- Krampus (Austrick)
- The King's Birthday (Thailand)
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