December 5

Here you will find the world's holidays, annual events and a few anniversaries on December 5.

See also:  December,  Today in History,  movable December holidays,  possible December holidays

• Bathtub Party Day
• Dingle-Fritter, Gooseberry Humple, Tiger-Get-By, Lone Folding, and Zimber Quattor's (Multiple Squashing of Celebration; Fairy)
• Festival of Faunus (Old Roman)
• International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development (UN)
• National Sacher Torte Day

Christian holidays

• Calendar of Saints - December 05

anniversaries

• King's Birthday Holiday - Thailand
• Martin Van Buren
• National Sacher Torte Day
• AFL-CIO Founded Anniversary http://www.aflcio.org/home.htm http://www.aflcio.org/gallery_hist/history_links.htm (with links to lesson plans).
• Montgomery Bus Boycott Begins: Anniversary With links to web chronology, ready to use lesson, 2 page summary on the boycott, etc. http://sobek.colorado.edu/~jonesem/montgomery.html
• 1933:  Twenty-first Amendment to the US Constitution ratified; Prohibition ended with the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment
• Eve of St. Nicholas' Day
• Several countries KidsProj - KARIBU / Christmas Day
• Austria KidsProj - St. Nicholas / St. Nicholas
• Germany KidsProj - St. Nicholas / Nikolaustag
• Germany KidsProj - St. Nicholas / Nikolaustag
• Netherlands KidsProj - St. Nicholas / Sinterklaas
• Thailand KidsProj - Wun Por / Father's Day
• King's Birthday - Thailand
• Birthday of HM the King in Thailand
• National Holiday of Thailand
• INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER DAY FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
• Volunteer Day - International
• Discovery Day, 1492 - Haiti
• Discovery of Haiti in Haiti
• December 5 - Wrench Day - The pipe wrench was patented in on this day in 1876.
• December 5 - Blue Jeans Day - Levi Strauss and Company invented blue jeans, the first of which were brown denim, in 1880.

directories

December holidays & events by location

• Africa
• Asia & Middle East
• Europe
• North & Central America
• Oceania
• South America

Africa

Asia

• King's Birthday - in Thailand; national holiday

Middle East

Australia and Oceania

Europe

• 2002:  Lovers' Fair (the first Thursday of December)
• St. Nicholas' Eve

North America

• annual snowball fight - in Michigan

Caribbean

• Discovery Day - in Haiti; anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ famous encounter with the island (1492)

Central America

South America

Gregorian calendar

• Day 339, with 26 days remaining in the year
• 2001 A. D.: Wednesday
• 2002 A. D.:  Thursday
• 2003 A. D.:  Friday
• 2004 A. D.:  Sunday
• 2005 A. D.:  Monday

• 2006 A. D.:  Tuesday
• 2007 A. D.:  Wednesday
• 2008 A. D.:  Friday
• 2009 A. D.:  Saturday
• 2010 A. D.:  Sunday
• 2011 A. D.:  Monday

other calendars

• Julian period & Julian Day
• Illuminati
• Hebrew
• Mayan
• Chinese
• Erisian (Discordian) 
• Islamic
• French Revolutionary

season

• Northern hemisphere:  Winter
• Southern hemisphere:  Summer

zodiac

• Sagittarius

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last edited Sunday, December 25, 2005