5 December
Notable Births
Owen Cooper
b. 2009
English actor (born 2009)
Ediz Gürel
b. 2008
Turkish chess grandmaster (born 2008)
Soobin (singer)
b. 2000
South Korean singer (born 2000)
Conan Gray
b. 1998
American singer-songwriter (born 1998)
Randal Kolo Muani
b. 1998
French footballer (born 1998)
Maddie Poppe
b. 1997
American singer-songwriter (born 1997)
Quinnen Williams
b. 1997
American football player (born 1997)
Danny Levi
b. 1995
NZ & Samoa international rugby league footballer
Anthony Martial
b. 1995
French footballer (born 1995)
Kaetlyn Osmond
b. 1995
Canadian figure skater
Levy Rozman
b. 1995
American chess player and commentator (born 1995)
Alexander Sørloth
b. 1995
Norwegian footballer (born 1995)
Ondrej Duda
b. 1994
Slovak footballer
Semi Ojeleye
b. 1994
American basketball player (born 1994)
Ross Barkley
b. 1993
English footballer (born 1993)
Luciano Vietto
b. 1993
Argentine footballer (born 1993)
Cam Fowler
b. 1991
American ice hockey player (born 1991)
Christian Yelich
b. 1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Montee Ball
b. 1990
American football player (born 1990)
Jurrell Casey
b. 1989
American football player (born 1989)
Notable Deaths
Frank Gehry
d. 2025
Canadian and American architect (1929–2025)
Michael Annett
d. 2025
American racing driver (1986–2025)
Jacques Roubaud
d. 2024
French poet, writer and mathematician (1932–2024)
Norman Lear
d. 2023
American screenwriter and producer (1922–2023)
Kirstie Alley
d. 2022
American actress (1951–2022)
Bob Dole
d. 2021
American politician and attorney (1923–2021)
Peter Alliss
d. 2020
English golfer and broadcaster (1931–2020)
Robert Walker (actor, born 1940)
d. 2019
American actor (1940–2019)
Michael I of Romania
d. 2017
King of Romania (r. 1927–1930, 1940–1947)
August Ames
d. 2017
Canadian pornographic actress (1994–2017)
Big Syke
d. 2016
American rapper
Vic Eliason
d. 2015
American evangelical clergyman
Tibor Rubin
d. 2015
Hungarian-American US Army Corporal and Medal of Honor recipient (1929–2015)
Ernest C. Brace
d. 2014
(1931–2014) American aviator
Fabiola of Belgium
d. 2014
Queen of the Belgians from 1960 to 1993
Talât Sait Halman
d. 2014
Turkish writer and historian (1931–2014)
Jackie Healy-Rae
d. 2014
Irish politician (1931–2014)
Silvio Zavala
d. 2014
Mexican historian (1909–2014)
Fred Bassetti
d. 2013
American architect (1917–2013)
Shoeless Joe Jackson
d. 1951
American baseball player (1887–1951)
On This Day in History
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2017
The International Olympic Committee bans Russia from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics for doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
International Olympic Committee
2014
Exploration Flight Test-1, the first flight test of Orion, is launched.
Exploration Flight Test-1
2013
Militants attack a Defense Ministry compound in Sanaa, Yemen, killing at least 56 people and injuring 200 others.
2013 Yemeni Ministry of Defense attack
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.
Westroads Mall shooting
2006
Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
Frank Bainimarama
2005
The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
Civil Partnership Act 2004
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.
2005 Lake Tanganyika earthquake
2001
Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-108, carrying the Expedition 4 crew to the International Space Station.
Space Shuttle Endeavour
1995
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lanka's government announces the conquest of the Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
Sri Lankan civil war
1995
Azerbaijan Airlines Flight A-56 crashes near Nakhchivan International Airport in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, killing 52 people.
Azerbaijan Airlines Flight A-56
1994
The Budapest Memorandum is signed at the OSCE conference in Budapest, Hungary.
Budapest Memorandum
1991
Leonid Kravchuk is elected the first president of Ukraine.
Leonid Kravchuk
1983
Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
National Reorganization Process
1977
Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen in retaliation to preventing President Anwar el-Sadat from pursuing negotiations with Israel at the Tripoli confer.
Egypt
1971
Battle of Gazipur: Pakistani forces are defeated as India cedes Gazipur to Bangladesh.
Battle of Gazipur
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.
Vietnam 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.
Lloyd J. Old
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.
Subscriber trunk dialling
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.)
Preston Bypass
1955
The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO.
American Federation of Labor