Taken from the EFE news agency
On December 5, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed during his first voyage to America on the island that the indigenous people called Quisqueya and that he named La Española, and which is currently home to two states - the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
1484 - The bull Summis desiderantes affectibus of Pope Innocent VIII is published, which allows inquisitorial proceedings against witches and other heretics in Germany and other areas.
1813.- Simón Bolívar defeats the royalist troops on the plains of Araure, present-day Venezuela.
1933 - Abolition of "Prohibition" in the U.S., which was in effect for 13 years.
1945 - A patrol of five TBA Avenger bombers, led by Lieutenant Charles Taylor, departs from the Fort Lauderdale base on a routine mission and disappears in what is known as the Bermuda Triangle.
1987.- The Panamanian-flagged ship “Casón” catches fire off the Galician coast and 23 of the 31 crew members die.
1990 - The USSR Parliament approves freedom of association. 1991 - Ukraine abrogates the treaty of participation in the USSR, signed in 1922, and Leonid Kravchuk takes office as President of the Republic.
1995.- Spaniard Javier Solana is appointed Secretary General of NATO.
2002.- The Paraguayan Parliament approves holding an impeachment trial against President González Macchi for corruption.
2003 - 42 people die and more than 200 are injured in a suicide attack on a commuter train in southern Russia.
2005.- The Ecuadorian Congress restructures the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
2007 - A 20-year-old man shoots and kills 9 people in a shopping center in Nebraska (USA).
2009 - One hundred people die in a fire at a nightclub in Perm (Russia) caused by fireworks.
2010 - Iran announces that it is now self-sufficient in the production of concentrated uranium oxide powder, essential for the generation of nuclear fuel.
– 120 people die buried by a landslide in the Colombian municipality of Bello.
2013 - Pope Francis creates a specific commission to prevent cases of pedophilia in the Church.
– The UN Security Council authorizes an African and French military intervention in the Central African Republic to protect the civilian population and restore security in the country.
2015 - The legendary Spanish galleon "San José," sunk at the beginning of the 18th century off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia, reappears.
2016 - The UN identifies 41 "blue helmets" accused of sexual abuse in Burundi and Gabon between 2014 and 2015.
2017 - The EU approves a list of tax havens made up of 17 countries, including Panama.
2018 - Negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front resume in Geneva after being stalled for six years.
2019 - Mass strike in France against pension reform.
2020 - The Civil Guard seizes 11,382 kilos of cocaine in Operation Orion, the largest international investigation against drug trafficking led by Colombia with the participation of 29 countries.
A Japanese capsule carrying samples from a distant asteroid returns to Earth after a six-year mission.
BIRTHS
1901.- Walt Disney, American cartoonist and filmmaker.
1905 - Otto Preminger, Austrian-born American filmmaker. 1925 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan dictator.
1927 - Adulyadej Bhumibol, King of Thailand. 1939 - Ricardo Bofill, Spanish architect.
1946 - José Carreras, Spanish tenor. 1950 - José Monge "Camarón de la Isla", Spanish flamenco singer. 1956 - Krystian Zimerman, Polish pianist.
DEATHS
1791.- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer.
1926 - Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter. 1953 - Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor.
1983.- Robert Aldrich, American filmmaker.
2002.- General Ne Win, Burmese dictator (Myanmar).
2005 - Frederik J. Philips, first president of the Dutch multinational. 2008 - Alexis II, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
2012.- Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect.
2013 - Nelson Mandela, South African politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
2016.- Jayalalithaa Jayaraman, Indian politician.
2017.- José Orlando Padrón, Cuban businessman.
2018 - Alex Boraine, South African activist and key investigator of apartheid crimes.
2019.- Faure Chomón Mediavilla, Cuban military officer and politician.
2020.- Viktor Ponedelnik, Russian footballer and coach.
