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Events

• 1865 (161 years ago) Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
• 1934 (92 years ago) Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
• 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
• 1971 (55 years ago) Battle of Gazipur: Pakistani forces are defeated as India cedes Gazipur to Bangladesh.
• 1977 (49 years ago) Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen in retaliation to preventing President Anwar el-Sadat from pursuing negotiations with Israel at the Tripoli confer.
• 1983 (43 years ago) Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
• 2005 (21 years ago) The 6.8 Mw Lake Tanganyika earthquake shakes the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing six people.
• 2017 (9 years ago) The International Olympic Committee bans Russia from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics for doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Births

• 1443 (583 years ago) Pope Julius II,
• 1782 (244 years ago) Martin Van Buren, American lawyer and politician, 8th President of the United States (died 1862)
• 1803 (223 years ago) Fyodor Tyutchev, Russian poet and diplomat (died 1873)
• 1867 (159 years ago) Józef Piłsudski, Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland (died 1935)
• 1868 (158 years ago) Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (died 1951)
• 1901 (125 years ago) Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (died 1966)
• 1901 (125 years ago) Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1976)
• 1927 (99 years ago) Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand (died 2016)

Deaths

• 1791 (235 years ago) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer and musician (born 1756)
• 1870 (156 years ago) Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (born 1802)
• 1891 (135 years ago) Pedro II of Brazil,
• 1925 (101 years ago) Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1867)
• 1926 (100 years ago) Claude Monet, French painter (born 1840)
• 2012 (14 years ago) Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, designed the United Nations Headquarters and Cathedral of Brasília (born 1907)
• 2013 (13 years ago) Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
• 2025 (a year ago) Frank Gehry, Canadian-American architect and designer (b. 1929)

All 404 events, births and deaths of December 5