Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 5
This is a list of selected December 5 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| International Volunteer Day; | refimprove |
| ; National Day in Thailand (1927) | multiple issues |
| 1492 – Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic. | date not cited |
| 1590 – Niccolò Sfondrati became Pope Gregory XIV, succeeding Pope Urban VII who died two months earlier. | needs more footnotes; lead too short |
| 1766 – In London, James Christie founded what is today the world's leading art business and fine arts auction house. | refimprove section |
| 1776 – Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the United States, and the first collegiate organization to adopt a Greek-letter name, was founded at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. | missing info, unreferenced section |
| 1876 – Fire engulfed the Brooklyn Theatre in Brooklyn, New York, killing at least 278 people, mostly due to smoke inhalation. | inappropriate tone |
| 1958 – Subscriber trunk dialling was inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she made a phone call from Bristol to Edinburgh. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issued the papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus, giving Dominican inquisitor Heinrich Kramer explicit authority to prosecute witchcraft in Germany.
- 1916 – Amid the First World War and following his loss of support in Parliament, British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith resigned.
- 1933 – Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States officially ended when the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment.
- 1936 – The 1936 Soviet Constitution, also known as the "Stalin constitution", was adopted.
- 1939 – The remains of Pedro II of Brazil, who was ousted and exiled in a republican coup, were buried after being repatriated.
- 1952 – The "Great Smog of London" began and lasted for five days, causing 12,000 deaths and leading to the Clean Air Act 1956.
- 1958 – Britain's first motorway, the Preston By-pass, opened to the public.
- 1965 – The "glasnost meeting" took place in Moscow, becoming the first demonstration in the Soviet Union after World War II and marking the beginning of the civil rights movement in the country.
- 1972 – Gough Whitlam took office as the 21st Prime Minister of Australia and formed a duumvirate with his deputy Lance Barnard, ending 23 years of Liberal-Country Party government.
- 1995 – Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 56 crashed shortly after takeoff from Nakhchivan Airport, killing 52 people on board.
- 2005 – The Civil Partnership Act came into force, granting civil partnerships in the United Kingdom rights and responsibilities identical to civil marriage.
- 2007 – A nineteen-year-old gunman went on a shooting spree at a shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S., killing nine people, including himself.
- Born/died: | Ealhswith |d|902| Joan, Countess of Flanders |d|1244| Phillis Wheatley |d|1784| Jacobus Anthonie Meessen |b|1836| Arthur Currie |b|1875| Clyde Cessna |b|1879| Louise Bryant |b|1885| Amrita Sher-Gil |d|1941| Princess Alice of Battenberg |d|1969
Notes
- Decline and fall of Pedro II of Brazil appears on November 15, Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil appears on November 29, and Pedro I of Brazil appears on December 1, so Pedro II should not be used in the same year.
December 5: Krampusnacht in parts of Central Europe
- 1757 – Seven Years' War: Prussian troops under Frederick the Great defeated Austrian forces at the Battle of Leuthen.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Continental Army colonel Henry Knox arrived at Fort Ticonderoga in New York to arrange the transport of 60 tons of artillery (depicted) to support the Siege of Boston.
- 1945 – Flight 19, a squadron of five U.S. Navy torpedo bombers, disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle.
- 1974 – The Birmingham Americans won the only World Bowl in World Football League history.
- Afanasy Fet (b. 1820)
- John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (b. 1859)
- Clair Cameron Patterson (d. 1995)