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• Rwanda becomes the first country to be declared landmine-free under the Ottawa Treaty.
• In the process to revalue the North Korean won, current banknotes cease to be legal tender, and businesses throughout the country shut down until new notes are released on 7 December.
• José Mujica (pictured) is elected President of Uruguay.
• Porfirio Lobo is elected President of Honduras in the first election since the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.
• In a referendum in Switzerland, voters approve a ban on the construction of minarets in the country.
• Rwanda is admitted under the Edinburgh criteria into the Commonwealth of Nations, becoming its second member without any formal historical ties to the United Kingdom.
• At least 26 people are killed after a bomb explodes under a train on the Moscow–Saint Petersburg Railway near Bologoye in Russia.

December 5: Father's Day in Thailand; St Nicholas's Eve in various European countries

• 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issued the papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus, giving Dominican Inquisitor Heinrich Kramer explicit authority to prosecute witchcraft in Germany.
• 1492 – Christopher Columbus (pictured) became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
• 1757 – Seven Years' War: Prussian forces under Frederick the Great defeated Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine at the Battle of Leuthen in Leuthen, present-day Poland.
• 1933 – Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States officially ended when the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment.
• 1945 – Flight 19, a squadron of five Avenger TBM torpedo bombers of the U.S. Navy, disappeared in the area now known as the Bermuda Triangle.
• 2005 – The Civil Partnership Act came into force, granting civil partnerships in the United Kingdom with rights and responsibilities identical to civil marriage.

More anniversaries: December 4 – December 5 – December 6