Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: December 5
December 5, 2025 is the 339th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 26 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Sagittarius is your zodiac sign. Turquoise is your modern birthstone. Onyx is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: December 5
- 771 –Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman.
- 1408 –Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
- 1492 –Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
- 1496 –King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree of expulsion of “heretics” from the country.
- 1590 –Niccolò Sfondrati becomes Pope Gregory XIV.
- 1936 –The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
- 1952 –Great Smog of 1952: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow.
- 1955 –E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 1958 –The Preston bypass, the UK’s first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.
- 1983 –ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal in the same year.
Who were born on December 5?
- 1782 –Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (d. 1862)
- 1896 –Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1984)
- 1903 –Johannes Heesters, Dutch singer and actor (d. 2011)
- 1910 –Abraham Polonsky, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
- 1932 –Jim Hurtubise, American racecar driver (d. 1989)
- 1938 –J.D. McDuffie, American racecar driver (d. 1991)
- 1940 –Peter Pohl, Swedish writer
- 1943 –Eva Joly, Norwegian-born French magistrate
- 1946 –Sarel van der Merwe, South African rally driver
- 1985 –Josh Smith, American basketball player
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