Talk:December 5

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December 5: Father's Day in Thailand, St Nicholas's Eve in various European countries.

1492 - Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
1590 - Niccolò Sfondrati became Pope Gregory XIV (pictured), succeeding Pope Urban VII who died two months earlier.
1766 - Auctioneer James Christie conducted his first sale in London.
1933 - Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States officially ended when the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
1936 - The 1936 Soviet Constitution, also known as the "Stalin" constitution, was adopted.

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