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| December 5th, 2005 (December 05 2005) | Event | The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | |
| December 5th, 2005 (December 05 2005) | Event | The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there. | |
| December 5th, 2005 (December 05 2005) | Death | Ed Masry, American lawyer (born in 1932) | |
| December 5th, 2005 (December 05 2005) | Death | Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, Australian businessman (born in 1949) | |
| December 5th, 2005 (December 05 2005) | Death | Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (born in 1905) | |
| December 5th, 1995 (December 05 1995) | Event | The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna. | |
| December 5th, 1995 (December 05 1995) | Death | Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (born in 1920) | |
| December 5th, 1995 (December 05 1995) | Death | Lisa McPherson, former Scientologist (born in 1959) | |
| December 5th, 1985 (December 05 1985) | Birth | Frankie Muniz, American actor | |
| December 5th, 1985 (December 05 1985) | Birth | Josh Smith, American basketball player | |
| December 5th, 1985 (December 05 1985) | Birth | Nico Verdonck, Belgian racing driver | |
| December 5th, 1975 (December 05 1975) | Birth | Ronnie O Sullivan, English snooker player | |
| December 5th, 1975 (December 05 1975) | Birth | Paula Patton, American actress | |
| December 5th, 1965 (December 05 1965) | Birth | Johnny Rzeznik, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Goo Goo Dolls) | |
| December 5th, 1965 (December 05 1965) | Birth | Wayne Smith, Jamaican reggae musician | |
| December 5th, 1965 (December 05 1965) | Death | Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (born in 1874) | |
| December 5th, 1955 (December 05 1955) | Event | The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO. | |
| December 5th, 1955 (December 05 1955) | Event | E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott. | |
| December 5th, 1955 (December 05 1955) | Death | Glenn L. Martin, American aviation pioneer (born in 1886) | |
| December 5th, 1945 (December 05 1945) | Event | Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle. | |
| December 5th, 1945 (December 05 1945) | Birth | Serge Chapleau, French Canadian caricaturist | |
| December 5th, 1935 (December 05 1935) | Birth | Calvin Trillin, American writer | |
| December 5th, 1935 (December 05 1935) | Birth | Yury Vlasov, Soviet weightlifter | |
| December 5th, 1925 (December 05 1925) | Birth | Anastasio Somoza, President of Nicaragua (died in 1980) | |
| December 5th, 1925 (December 05 1925) | Death | Wladyslaw Reymont, Polish writer and Nobel laureate (born in 1867) | |
| December 5th, 1905 (December 05 1905) | Birth | Gus Mancuso, American baseball player (died in 1984) | |
| December 5th, 1895 (December 05 1895) | Birth | Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician (died in 1969) | |
| December 5th, 1895 (December 05 1895) | Death | Chief Gall, Sioux chief (born in 1840) | |
| December 5th, 1875 (December 05 1875) | Birth | Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian soldier (died in 1933) | |
| December 5th, 1865 (December 05 1865) | Event | Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain. | |
| December 5th, 1855 (December 05 1855) | Birth | Clinton Hart Merriam, American ornithologist (died in 1942) | |
| December 5th, 1815 (December 05 1815) | Event | Foundation of Maceio in Brazil. | |
| December 5th, 1775 (December 05 1775) | Event | At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts. | |
| December 5th, 1595 (December 05 1595) | Birth | Henry Lawes, English composer (died in 1662) | |
| December 5th, 1495 (December 05 1495) | Birth | Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (died in 1542) | |
| December 5th, 1355 (December 05 1355) | Death | John III, Duke of Brabant (born in 1300) | |
