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Friday, 05 December 2025

2007

Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.

2006

Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.

2005

The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.

1995

The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.

1993

The mayor of Wien (Vienna), Helmut Zilk, is wounded by a letter bomb.

1983

Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.

ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal in the same year.

1979

Sonia Johnson is formally excommunicated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for her outspoken criticism of the church concerning the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

1978

The Soviet Union signs a "friendship treaty" with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

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