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 (pictured) 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, succeeding Pope Urban VII who died two months earlier.
1766 – In London, James Christie opened what is today the world's leading art business and fine arts auction house.
1933 – Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States officially ended when the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
1945 – Flight 19, a squadron of five Avenger TBM torpedo bombers of the U.S. Navy, disappeared in the area now known as the Bermuda Triangle.

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