5 December

The **5t o December** is the 339t day o the year (340t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 26 days bidin.

## 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 http://www.bt.com/archives/history/19461959.htm#1958 .
*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.

## 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

## 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)