Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 5
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This is a list of selected December 5 anniversaries that appears on 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 may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.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.
More events: December 4 – December 5 – December 6
