Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 5
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December 5: Father's Day in Thailand, St Nicholas's Eve in various European countries, International Volunteer Day.
- 1492 - Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
- 1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (pictured) died without completing his Requiem mass in D minor.
- 1933 - Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States officially ended when the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
- 1936 - The 1936 Soviet Constitution, also known as the "Stalin" constitution, was adopted.
- 1945 - Flight 19, a squadron of five Avenger TBM torpedo bombers of the U.S. Navy, disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle.
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