December 05: Significance, Events, and How to Celebrate Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1996  Peter Hall, folklorist/musician, dies at 60   

1997  High-speed modem makers and longtime rivals 3Com and Rockwell International tentatively agreed to end their bitter feud over technical standards.   

1997  Colin Franklin, doctor, dies at 67.   

2007  19-year old Robert A. Hawkins shoots eight people dead and injures five at the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, then commits suicide   

2012  8 people are killed and 12 injured by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake in South Korea   

2017  Russia is banned from the next Winter Olympics in South Korea over state-sponsored doping.   

2017  Austrian courts rule in favour of same-sex marriage from 2019   

2017  Netflix fires actor Danny Masterson from "The Ranch" after allegations of rape.   

2017  Online store Amazon begins operations in Australia   

2017  Democratic representative John Conyers steps down from US Congress after allegations of sexual harrassment   

2017  In this year, Artist Lubaina Himid claims Britain's Turner Prize, oldest person at 63 and inaugural nonwhite woman.   

2017  Russia is banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang by the International Olympic Committee, following an investigation into state-sponsored doping.   

2018  National day of mourning for former US President George H. W. Bush as he lies in state at the Capitol Rotunda, Washington.   

2018  US state funeral for former president George H. W. Bush , eulogy by George W Bush, attended by President Donald Trump predecessors Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.   

2018  CO2 emissions reach all-time high (up 2.7%) driven by coal use in China and consumption of oil, in Global Carbon Project report.   

2018  Wisconsin Republican senate passes bills restricting power of new Democratic governor Tony Evers.   

2018  Letter by Albert Einstein from 1954 on concept of religion sells for $2.9 million at Christie's in New York   

2018  Arrest of Huawei Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou for possible violation of Iran sanctions in Canada   

2019  The 2019 Burundi landslide is reported to have caused at least 26 deaths.   

2019  Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi asks the House Judiciary Committee to begin drafting the articles of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump.December 8 - A fire at a factory in Delhi, India, results in the deaths of 43 people and injures at least 50 others.   

2020  [COVID-19 pandemic] Russia begins mass vaccination against COVID-19 with the Sputnik V candidate.   

2021  Kennedy Center Honors ceremony held for Joni Mitchell , Bette Midler , Berry Gordy , Lorne Michaels and Justino Diaz with President Biden attending in Washington D.C.   

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