Daily Calendar for December 5th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1780s

• Born 1782: Martin Van Buren (8th U.S. president). He was the first president to be a U.S. citizen at birth

1790s

• Died 1791: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer)

1830s

• Born 1839: George Armstrong Custer (U.S. Calvary officer)

1890s

• 1893: Canada's first electric car debuted, in Toronto, Ontario

1900s

• Born 1901: Walt Disney (animator & theme park developer)

• Born 1902: Strom Thurmond (politician)

1920s

• Died 1926: Claude Monet (painter)

• 1929: American League for Physical Culture formed

1930s

• 1935: First large hydroponicum established, in Montebello, California

1950s

• Died 1951: "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (baseball player)

• 1955: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott to protest racial segregation on city buses

1960s

• 1968: The Rolling Stones celebrated the release of Beggars Banquet with a custard pie fight at London's Kensington Gore Hotel

1970s

• 1974: The last new episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was broadcast on the BBC

1980s

• 1983: The first six astronauts were chosen for the Canadian Space Program

• Born 1985: Frankie Muniz (actor)

2010s

• Died 2010: Don Meredith (football player & broadcaster)

• Died 2011: Pusuke (world's oldest living dog until time of death)

• 2012: Electric eels lit a Christmas tree at the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy, Utah

• Died 2013: Nelson Mandela (political activist)