Historical Events on December 5 (Part 2)

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• 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 Wisconsin Republican senate passes bills restricting power of new Democratic governor Tony Evers
• 2019 National strike in France; more than 800,000 people in 100 cities protest against proposed pension reform
• 2019 Saudi state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco raises a record $25.6 billion in its first public share offering, makes it the world's most valuable company at $1.7 trillion

• 2019 WHO says 142,000 people died of the measles around the world in 2018, nearly 20,000 more than in 2017
• 2020 Russia begins vaccinating people with its Sputnik V vaccine in Moscow, despite the vaccine not finishing clinical trials
• 2021 First known Hippos tests positive for COVID-19 at Antwerp Zoo in Belgium, with staff putting Imani (14) and Hermien (41) into isolation [1]

• 2022 Construction begins on world's biggest radio telescope - the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in South Africa and Australia with collection area of nearly 500,000 square meters. Built to test Einstein's theories and search for extraterrestrial life [1]
• 2022 Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) opens in Montreal, Canada
• 2022 Iranian senior official confirms the country's Morality Police has been shut down in a concession to three months of nationwide protests, though may take on a different form [1]
• 2023 Sculptor Jesse Darling wins the Turner Prize for his sculptures made of everyday objects [1]

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