December 5

Events

• 1912: Greece uses for the first time airplanes to drop bombs at Bizani
• 1940: Colonel Mardohaios Frizis (Μαρδοχαίος Φριζής), a Greek Jew , is killed near Premeti during the Greek-Italian confrontation. He is the first high ranking officer to fall in battle in World War II.
• 1969: A pacemaker is implanted for the first time in a heart patient in Greece.
• 1981: Adultery is decriminalized. Article 357 of the Penal Code that called for imprisonment as a penalty for adultery is revoked.

Births

• 1926: George Savalas, Greek-American actor
• 1934: Nikos Kourkoulos, actor

Feast Day

• Saint Savvas