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What Happened on December 5th This Day in History

Year	Name
2017	The International Olympic Committee bans Russia from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics for doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
2014	Exploration Flight Test 1, the first flight test of Orion, is launched.
2013	Militants attack a Defense Ministry compound in Sana'a, Yemen, killing at least 56 people and injuring 200 others.
2007	Westroads Mall shooting: Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins kills nine people, including himself, with a WASR-10 at a Von Maur department store in Omaha, Nebraska.
2006	Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
2005	The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
2005	The 6.8 Mw  Lake Tanganyika earthquake shakes the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing six people.
1995	Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lanka's government announces the conquest of the Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
1995	Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 56 crashes near Nakhchivan International Airport in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, killing 52 people.
1991	Leonid Kravchuk is elected the first president of Ukraine.
1983	Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
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.
1971	Battle of Gazipur: Pakistani forces stand defeated as India cedes Gazipur to Bangladesh.
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.
1964	Lloyd J. Old discovers the first linkage between the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and disease—mouse leukemia—opening the way for the recognition of the importance of the MHC in the immune response.
1958	Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
1958	The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.)
1955	The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO.
1955	E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery bus boycott.
1952	Beginning of the Great Smog in London. A cold fog combines with air pollution and brings the city to a standstill for four days. Later, a Ministry of Health report estimates 4,000 fatalities as a result of it.
1945	Flight 19, a group of TBF Avengers, disappears in the Bermuda Triangle.
1943	World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
1941	World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army.
1941	World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
1936	The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
1935	Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in New York City.
1934	Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
1933	The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1921	The Football Association bans women's football in England from league grounds, a ban that stays in place for 50 years.
1914	The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition began in an attempt to make the first land crossing of Antarctica.
1895	New Haven Symphony Orchestra of Connecticut performs its first concert.
1865	Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
1848	California Gold Rush: In a message to the United States Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
1847	Jefferson Davis is elected to the U.S. Senate.
1831	Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
1776	Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., holds its first meeting at the College of William & Mary.
1775	At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1766	In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
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.
1649	The town of Raahe (Swedish: Brahestad) is founded by Count Per Brahe the Younger.[11]
1578	Sir Francis Drake, after sailing through Strait of Magellan, raids Valparaiso.
1560	Thirteen-year-old Charles IX becomes king of France, with Queen Mother Catherine de' Medici as regent.
1496	King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree ordering the expulsion of Jews from the country.
1484	Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes affectibus, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany.
1456	The first of two earthquakes measuring Mw  7.2 strikes Italy, causing extreme destruction and killing upwards of 70,000 people.
1408	Seeking to resubjugate Muscovy, Emir Edigu of the Golden Horde reaches Moscow, burning areas around the city but failing to take the city itself.
1082	Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated, most likely by his brother, Berenguer Ramon II.
1033	The Jordan Rift Valley earthquake destroys multiple cities across the Levant, triggers a tsunami and kills many.
633	Fourth Council of Toledo opens, presided over by Isidore of Seville.
63	Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations.

Famous People Born on December 5

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Year	Name
1924	Robert Sobukwe, South African banker and politician (d. 1978)
1960	Osvaldo Golijov, Argentinian-American composer and educator
1991	Jacopo Sala, Italian footballer
1972	Cliff Floyd, American baseball player and sportscaster
1989	Kwon Yu-ri, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress
1911	Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist and composer (d. 2000)
1973	Luboš Motl, Czech physicist and academic
1942	Bryan Murray, Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 2017)
1830	Christina Rossetti, English poet and author (d. 1894)
1962	Nivek Ogre, Canadian singer-songwriter

Famous People Deaths On December 5

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on December 5. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
2005	Edward L. Masry, American lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
2020	Peter Alliss, English professional golfer (b. 1931)
1995	L. B. Cole, American illustrator and publisher (b. 1918)
1955	Glenn L. Martin, American pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company (b. 1886)
1925	Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
1870	Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (b. 1802)
1918	Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b. 1852)
1994	Harry Horner, Czech-American director, producer, and production designer (b. 1910)
1891	Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
1926	Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)