Editing December 5 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1914]] &ndash; The [[Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition]] began in an attempt to make the first land crossing of [[Antarctica]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Alexander |first=C. |date=1998 |title=The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition |location=New York |publisher=[[Knopf]] |isbn=9780375404030 |pages=12&nbsp;15}}</ref>
*[[1919]] &ndash; [[Ukrainian War of Independence]]: The [[Polonsky conspiracy]] is suppressed and its participants are executed by the [[Kontrrazvedka]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Darch |first=Colin |title=Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism in Ukraine, 1917-1921 |year=2020 |location=[[London]] |publisher=[[Pluto Press]] |isbn=9781786805263 |oclc=1225942343 |page=90}}</ref>
*[[1921]] &ndash; [[The Football Association]] bans [[women's football in England]] from league grounds, a ban that stays in place for 50 years.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-12-12 |title=WW1: Why was women's football banned in 1921? |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30329606 |access-date=2021-12-05}}</ref>
*[[1933]] &ndash; The [[Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution]] is ratified, repealing [[Prohibition in the United States]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Miller |first=Shari Parsons |chapter=Voluntary Committee of Lawyers |title=The SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol: Social, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives |editor-last=Martin |editor-first=Scott C. |location=Thousand Oaks, Calif. |publisher=Sage |date=2015 |isbn=9781483325255 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ANm5BgAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false |page=1343}}</ref>
*[[1934]] &ndash; [[Abyssinia Crisis]]: [[Kingdom of Italy|Italian]] troops attack [[Wal Wal]] in [[Ethiopia|Abyssinia]], taking four days to capture the city.
*[[1935]] &ndash; [[Mary McLeod Bethune]] founds the [[National Council of Negro Women]] in New York City.
*[[1936]] &ndash; The [[Soviet Union]] adopts a new [[1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union|constitution]] and the [[Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic]] is established as a full [[Republics of the Soviet Union|Union Republic]] of the [[Soviet Union|USSR]].
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: In the [[Battle of Moscow]], [[Georgy Zhukov]] launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army.
*  1941   &ndash; World War II: Great Britain declares war on [[Finland]], [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]] and [[Kingdom of Romania|Romania]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1138501.shtml |title=Fact File: Declaration of War on Finland, Hungary and Romania, 5 December 1941 |work=WW2 People's War |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=2014-10-15 |access-date=2019-08-07}}</ref>
*[[1943]] &ndash; World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in [[Operation Crossbow]].
*[[1945]] &ndash; [[Flight 19]], a group of TBF Avengers, disappears in the [[Bermuda Triangle]].
*[[1952]] &ndash; Beginning of the [[Great Smog]] in London. A cold fog combines with air pollution and brings the city to a standstill for four days. Later, a [[Department of Health and Social Care|Ministry of Health]] report estimates 4,000 fatalities as a result of it.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Humphreys |first=Julian |title=Milestones |editor-last=Attar |editor-first=Rob |magazine=BBC History magazine |date=December 2012 |publisher=BBC |location=Northampton |pages=10–11}}</ref>
*[[1955]] &ndash; The [[American Federation of Labor]] and the [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] merge and form the [[AFL-CIO|AFL–CIO]].
*  1955   &ndash; [[E. D. Nixon]] and [[Rosa Parks]] lead the [[Montgomery bus boycott]].
*[[1958]] &ndash; [[Subscriber trunk dialling|Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD)]] is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen [[Elizabeth II]] when she speaks to the [[Lord Provost]] in a call from [[Bristol]] to [[Edinburgh]].
*  1958   &ndash; The [[Preston By-pass]], the UK's first stretch of [[motorway]], opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the [[M6 motorway|M6]] and [[M55 motorway|M55]] motorways.)
*[[1964]] &ndash; [[Vietnam War]]: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain [[Roger Donlon]] is awarded the first [[Medal of Honor]] of the war.
*  1964   &ndash; [[Lloyd J. Old]] discovers the first linkage between the [[major histocompatibility complex]] (MHC) and disease—mouse leukemia—opening the way for the recognition of the importance of the MHC in the immune response.
*[[1971]] &ndash; [[Battle of Gazipur]]: Pakistani forces stand defeated as India cedes [[Gazipur]] to [[Bangladesh]].
*[[1977]] &ndash; [[Egypt]] [[Egypt–Iraq relations|breaks diplomatic relations]] with [[Syria]], [[Libya]], [[Algeria]], [[Iraq]] and [[South Yemen]] in retaliation to preventing President [[Anwar Sadat|Anwar el‐Sadat]] from pursuing negotiations with Israel at the Tripoli confer.
*[[1983]] &ndash; Dissolution of the [[National Reorganization Process|Military Junta]] in [[Argentina]].
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Leonid Kravchuk]] is elected the first [[president of Ukraine]].
*[[1994]] &ndash; The [[Budapest Memorandum]] is signed at the [[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe|OSCE]] conference in [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]].
*[[1995]] &ndash; [[Sri Lankan civil war|Sri Lankan Civil War]]: [[Sri Lanka]]'s government announces the [[Battle of Jaffna (1995)|conquest]] of the [[Tamil people|Tamil]] stronghold of [[Jaffna]].
*  1995   &ndash; [[Azerbaijan Airlines Flight A-56]] crashes near [[Nakhchivan International Airport]] in [[Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic|Nakhchivan]], [[Azerbaijan]], killing 52 people.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Tupolev Tu-134B-3 4K-65703 Nakhichevan Airport (NAJ) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19951205-0 |url-status=live |access-date=2021-12-05 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202143221/http://aviation-safety.net:80/database/record.php?id=19951205-0 |archive-date=2008-12-02}}</ref>
*  [[2001]] &ndash; [[Space Shuttle Endeavour|Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'']] launches on [[STS-108]], carrying the [[Expedition 4]] crew to the [[International Space Station]].<ref name="autogenerated2">{{Cite web |title=STS-108 |url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-108.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303223939/http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-108.html |archive-date=3 March 2016 |access-date=14 June 2008 |website=NASA}}</ref>
*[[2005]] &ndash; The [[Civil Partnership Act 2004|Civil Partnership Act]] comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first [[Civil partnership in the United Kingdom|civil partnership]] is registered there.
*  2005   &ndash; The 6.8 {{M|w}} [[2005 Lake Tanganyika earthquake|Lake Tanganyika earthquake]] shakes the eastern provinces of the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of X (''Extreme''), killing six people.
*[[2006]] &ndash; Commodore [[Frank Bainimarama]] [[2006 Fijian coup d'état|overthrows]] the government in [[Fiji]].
*[[2007]] &ndash; [[Westroads Mall shooting]]: Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins kills nine people, including himself, with a [[WASR-series rifles|WASR-10]] at a [[Von Maur]] department store in [[Omaha, Nebraska]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna22121456 |title=Profiles of 8 who died in Omaha mall massacre |date=December 7, 2007 |website=msnbc.com}}</ref>
*[[2013]] &ndash; Militants [[2013 Yemeni Ministry of Defense attack|attack]] a Defense Ministry compound in [[Sana'a]], [[Yemen]], killing at least 56 people and injuring 200 others.
*[[2014]] &ndash; [[Exploration Flight Test-1]], the first flight test of [[Orion (spacecraft)|Orion]], is launched.
*[[2017]] &ndash; The [[International Olympic Committee]] bans [[Russia]] from competing at the [[2018 Winter Olympics]] for doping at the [[2014 Winter Olympics]].