By Alistair Boddy-Evans, About.com
1911, 5 December
Turks defeated by Italian forces at Tripoli.
1924, 5 December
Birth of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, leader of South Africa's Pan Africanist Congress, PAC.
1992, 5 December
Aid agencies are stripped by gunmen in Somalia on eve of US troop arrival.
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