December 5: International Volunteer Day; St Nicholas's Eve in various European countries; The King's birthday, National Day and Father's Day in Thailand (1927)
Henry Knox's noble train of artillery
- 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issued the papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus, giving Dominican Inquisitor Heinrich Kramer explicit authority to prosecute witchcraft in Germany.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Continental Army Colonel Henry Knox arrived at Fort Ticonderoga in New York to arrange the transport of 60 tons of artillery (pictured) that would be used to strengthen the Siege of Boston.
- 1945 – Flight 19, a squadron of five U.S. naval TBF Avenger torpedo bombers, disappeared in the area now known as the Bermuda Triangle.
- 1965 – The "Glasnost Meeting" became the first demonstration in the Soviet Union after the Second World War and marked the beginning of a civil rights movement in the country.
- 1995 – Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 56 crashed shortly after takeoff from Nakhchivan Airport, killing 52 people on board.
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