It happened on this day, December 5th
Events:
1242 – Abu Ahmad Abdullah Al-Musta'sim Billah assumes the caliphate in the Abbasid Empire.
1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
1918 – Syrian mujahid Saleh Al-Ali launches a revolution against French forces from his stronghold on the Syrian coast.
1931 – Destruction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow on the orders of Joseph Stalin.
1936 – The Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR and Kyrgyzstan become part of the Soviet Union.
1952-1 Assassination of the founder of the Tunisian General Labor Union, Farhat Hached, by the Red Hand gang.
1957 – Indonesian President Ahmad Sukarno demands the departure of all Dutch people from his country.
1962 – The United States and the Soviet Union agree to use space for peaceful purposes.
1967 – The Dac Son massacre takes place in Vietnam.
1977 – The Front for Resilience and Confrontation decides to freeze diplomatic relations with Egypt by rejecting the Egyptian peace initiative with Israel, following its first summit in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, in the west .
1978 – The Soviet Union and Afghanistan sign an agreement on cooperation and friendship, an agreement that paves the way for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
1984 – A Kuwait Airways Boeing 747 is hijacked and hijackers take it to Iran.
1989 – Iraq launches the Al-Abed missile from Anbar Air Base, consisting of three layers. It is the first Arab space missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers.
1996 – US President Bill Clinton appoints his country's representative to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright, as Secretary of State, becoming the first woman to hold this position in the United States.
2005 – A violent earthquake hits Lake Tanganyika in Africa, causing significant losses in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
2010 – The Kuwaiti national football team wins the 20th Gulf Cup hosted in Yemen for the tenth time in its history after defeating the Saudi national team 1-0.
2013 – Gunmen stormed a hospital in the Yemeni Defense Ministry compound, killing 52 people and injuring 176 others.
2014 – NASA announces the success of the first flight test of the Orion spacecraft, designed to carry astronauts beyond low Earth orbit.
2015 – Floods in southern India kill at least 300 people and displace around 1.8 million others.
2017 – International Olympic Committee announces ban on Russian participation in Winter Olympics
2018 due to the use of doping during the 2014 Winter Olympics.
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Births:
1443 – Pope Julius II, pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1782 – Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the United States.
1863 – Paul Pinelove, Prime Minister of France.
1868 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist.
1876 – Charles Anderson, Australian mineralogist.
1890 – Fritz Lang, Austrian director.
1894 – Charles Robert Swart, first president of South Africa.
1896 – Carl Curie, American doctor who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1947.
1901 – Walt Disney, American animation producer and director and founder of the Walt Disney Company.
** Werner Heisenberg, German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932.
1902 – James Strom Thurmond, American politician.
1903 – Cecil Powell, British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1950.
** Johannes Geesters, Dutch actor. 1917 – Kouka, Egyptian actress.
1927 – Bhumibol Adulyadej, king of Thailand.
1931 – Ladislav Novak, Czech footballer and coach.
1932 – Sheldon Glashow, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979.
1930 – Fayza Ahmed, Egyptian singer.
1937 – Soheir Al-Baroni, Egyptian actress.
1946 – José Carreras, Spanish opera singer.
1956 – Klaus Allofs, German footballer and coach.
1962 – Tsuneo Imahori, Japanese composer.
1976 – Amy Acker, American actress.
1978 – Marcelo Zalayta, Uruguayan footballer.
1979 – Matteo Ferrari, Italian footballer. ** Nick Stahl, American actor.
** Gareth McAuley, Northern Ireland footballer.
** Gian Franco, Venezuelan model and actor
1981 – Gamal Hamza, Egyptian footballer.
** Abdullah Al-Turkmani, Kuwaiti actor.
1984 – Lauren London, American actress.
1989 – Iman Faisal, Kuwaiti actress.
2000 – Choi Soobin, Korean singer.
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Death:
1242 – Al-Mustansir Billah, the thirty-sixth Abbasid caliph of Baghdad.
1499 – Ahmad bin Ubayyah al-Maqdisi, Shafi'ite jurist, judge and poet from Jerusalem.
1560 – Francis II, king of France.
1624 – Gaspard Bohan, Swiss botanist.
1717 – Hussein Al Nazmi, Iraqi linguist.
1791 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian musician.
1867 Władyslaw Raymont, Polish writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924.
1870 – Alexandre Dumas, French novelist.
1886 – Haider Al-Hilli, Iraqi poet.
1891 – Emperor Peter II, emperor of the Brazilian Empire.
1925 – Fouad Selim, Lebanese officer, revolutionary and writer.
1952 – Farhat Hached, founder of the Tunisian General Labor Union.
1965 – Joseph Erlinger, American physiologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1944.
1966 – Taha Al-Qalaa Li, Iraqi writer, scholar and jurist.
1989 – Misfer Al-Harithi, Saudi soldier and poet.
2008 – Patriarch Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
2011 – Gennady Lugovit, Soviet footballer.
2012 – Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim, Syrian Christian cleric and Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and all the East.
** Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect.
2013 – Nelson Mandela, leader of the anti-apartheid movement and president of South Africa.
2016 – Mona Maraachli, a Lebanese singer known as “Umm Kulthum of Lebanon”.
2018 – Erian Al-Sayyid Khalaf, popular Iraqi poet.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ International Volunteer Day.
⏪ National holiday in Thailand.
⏪ Bermuda Triangle Day.
