November 5
is the 309th day of the year (310th in
leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining.
*
1530 -
St. Felix's Flood destroys the city of
Reimerswaal in the
Netherlands *
1556 - Fifty miles north of
Delhi, a
Mogul Army defeats
Hindu forces of General
Hemu to ensure
Akbar the throne of
India.
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1605 -
Gunpowder Plot: A plot led by
Robert Catesby to blow up the English
Houses of Parliament is thwarted when Sir
Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds
Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building. Fawkes was later hung, drawn and quartered for his role in the conspiracy. The phrase "Remember, remember, the 5th of November! The Gunpowder Treason and plot; I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot." comes from
Guy Fawkes Night, an unofficial holiday commemorating the Gunpowder Plot. Guy Fawkes' likeness appears the comic book series
V For Vendetta. The event was later commemorized in the 2006 film
V for Vendetta*
1688 -
Glorious Revolution begins:
William of Orange lands at
Brixham.
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1838 - The
United States of Central America began to disintegrate when
Honduras separated from the federation.
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1862 -
American Civil War:
Abraham Lincoln removes
George McClellan as commander of the
Union Army for the second and final time.
* 1862 -
Indian Wars: In
Minnesota, more than 300 Santee
Sioux are found guilty of
rape and
murder of white settlers and are sentenced to hang.
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1872 -
Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist
Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
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1895 -
George B. Selden is granted the first U.S.
patent for an
automobile.
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1911 - After declaring war on the
Ottoman Empire on
September 29, 1911,
Italy annexes
Tripoli and
Cyrenaica.
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1912 -
U.S. presidential election, 1912:
Democratic challenger
Woodrow Wilson wins a victory over the
Progressive former President
Theodore Roosevelt and
Republican incumbent
William Howard Taft.
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1913 - The insane king
Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumed the title
Ludwig III.
* 1913 -
United Kingdom annexes
Cyprus, and together with
France declares war on the
Ottoman Empire.
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1916 - The
Kingdom of Poland proclaimed by the
November 5th Act of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
* 1916 - The
Everett Massacre takes place as political differences lead to a shoot-out between
IWW organizers and local police
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1917 -
St. Tikhon of Moscow was elected the
Patriarch of Moscow and of the
Russian Orthodox Church.
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1930 -
Sinclair Lewis is awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature.
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1935 -
Parker Brothers releases the board game
Monopoly.
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1937 -
World War II:
Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the
German people.
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1940 -
U.S. presidential election, 1940:
Democrat incumbent
Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats
Republican challenger
Wendell Willkie and becomes the
United States' only third-term president.
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1962 - A mining accident kills 21 miners at the government-owned
Kings Bay Coal Company on
Svalbard, leading the Norweigian government to close the mine.
*
1965 - State of Emergency declared in
Rhodesia after collapse of negotiations with
Great Britain over Rhodesian independence (
UDI would follow six days later)
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1968 -
U.S. presidential election, 1968:
Republican challenger
Richard M. Nixon defeats Vice President
Hubert Humphrey and
American Independent Party candidate
George C. Wallace.
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1970 -
Vietnam War: The
United States Military Assistance Command in
Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
*
1975 - The
Travis Walton abduction happens.
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1979 - The radio news program
Morning Edition premieres on
National Public Radio.
* 1979 -
Ayatollah Khomeini declares the
USA to be "the great Satan".
*
1985 -
Reliquary of St Maurus from the 13th century discovered in a cache in the chapel of
Bečov Castle.
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1987 -
Apartheid: In
South Africa,
Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years in the
Robben Island prison. He had been sentenced to life for treason against the white minority South Africa government.
*
1990 - Rabbi
Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right
Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a
New York City hotel.
*
1992 - In
Detroit, Michigan, black motorist
Malice Green dies after a struggle with white
policemen Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn.
*
1994 - A letter by former U.S. President
Ronald Reagan is released that announces he has
Alzheimer's disease.
* 1994 - Forty-five year old
George Foreman becomes
boxing's oldest heavyweight champion when he knocks out
Michael Moorer.
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1996 -
U.S. presidential election, 1996:
Democrat incumbent
Bill Clinton defeats
Republican challenger
Bob Dole to win his second term.
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1998 -
Lewinsky scandal: As part of the
impeachment inquiry, House Judiciary Committee chairman
Henry Hyde sends a list of 81 questions to US President
Bill Clinton.
* 1998 - The journal
Nature publishes a genetic study showing compelling evidence that
Thomas Jefferson fathered a son, Eston Hemings Jefferson, by his slave
Sally Hemings.
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1999 -
United States v. Microsoft: U.S. District Judge
Thomas Penfield Jackson issues a preliminary ruling that software maker
Microsoft had "monopoly power".
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2000 - Emperor
Haile Selassie I given an Imperial funeral by the Ethiopian Orthodox church
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1271 -
Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d.
1304)
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1549 -
Philippe de Mornay, French writer (d.
1623)
*
1592 -
Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (d.
1672)
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1613 -
Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d.
1691)
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1615 -
Ibrahim I,
Ottoman Sultan (d.
1648)
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1667 -
Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d.
1719)
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1701 -
Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (d.
1785)
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1715 -
John Brown, English writer (d.
1766)
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1722 -
William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler (d.
1798)
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1742 -
Richard Cosway, English artist (d.
1821)
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1851 -
Charles Dupuy, French prime minister (d.
1923)
*
1854 -
Paul Sabatier, French chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1941)
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1855 -
Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d.
1913)
* 1855 -
Eugene V. Debs, American socialist leader (d.
1926)
*
1857 -
Ida Tarbell, American journalist (d.
1944)
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1885 -
Will Durant, American historian (d.
1981)
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1890 -
Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter (d.
1977)
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1892 -
J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (d.
1964)
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1895 -
Walter Gieseking, French pianist (d.
1956)
* 1895 -
Charles MacArthur, American author (d.
1956)
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1900 -
Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d.
1972)
* 1900 -
Natalie Schafer, American actress (d.
1991)
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1904 -
Cooney Weiland, Canadian ice hockey player (d.
1985)
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1905 -
Joel McCrea, American actor (d.
1990)
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1906 -
Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d.
2004)
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1911 -
Roy Rogers, American actor (d.
1998)
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1913 -
Vivien Leigh, English actress (d.
1967)
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1914 -
Alton Tobey, American artist (d.
2005)
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1919 -
Myron Floren, American accordianist,
The Lawrence Welk Show (d.
2005)
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1920 -
Douglass North, American economist,
Nobel Prize laureate
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1921 -
Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist (d.
1994)
* 1921 -
Fawzia of Egypt, Queen of Iran
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1931 -
Ike Turner, American musician
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1935 -
Lester Piggott, British Jockey
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1938 -
César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer
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1941 -
Art Garfunkel, American musician
* 1941 -
Elke Sommer, German actress
*
1943 -
Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor
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1945 -
Peter Pace, US Marine and current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
*
1946 -
Herman Brood, Dutch musician and artist
* 1946 -
Gram Parsons, American musician (d.
1973)
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1947 -
Peter Noone, English musician and actor
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1948 -
Hrdayananda Gosvami,
ISKCON guru
* 1948 -
Bernard-Henri Lévy, French public intellectual
* 1948 -
Peter Hammill, British musician
* 1948 -
William Daniel Phillips, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
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1949 -
Armin Shimerman, American actor
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1950 -
Thorbjørn Jagland, Former norwegian prime minister
*
1952 -
Bill Walton, American basketball player and commentator
* 1952 -
Oleg Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer
*
1955 -
Bernard Chazelle, French-born computer scientist
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1958 -
Robert Patrick, American actor
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1959 -
Bryan Adams, Canadian musician
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1960 -
Tilda Swinton, actress
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1961 -
Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (d.
2001)
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1962 -
Abédi Pelé, Ghanian Footballer
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1963 -
Andrea McArdle, American actress
* 1963 -
Tatum O'Neal, American actress
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1965 -
Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress
*
1968 -
Sam Rockwell, American film actor
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1971 -
Corin Nemec, American actor
* 1971 -
Jonny Greenwood, Guitarist (
Radiohead)
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1973 -
Johnny Damon, baseball player
* 1973 -
Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player
*
1974 -
Ryan Adams, American musician
* 1974 -
Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player
*
1975 -
Angela Gossow, German singer (
Arch Enemy)
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1977 -
Brittney Skye, American porn star
* 1977 -
Richard Wright, English footballer
*
1980 -
Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
*
1983 -
Mike Hanke, German footballer
*
1986 -
BoA, Korean singer
* 1986 -
Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
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1515 -
Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b.
1474)
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1559 -
Kano Motonobu, Japanese painter (b.
1476)
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1660 -
Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (b.
1599)
* 1660 -
Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (b.
1591)
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1701 -
Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician (c.
1659)
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1714 -
Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (b.
1633)
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1752 -
Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (b.
1670)
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1758 -
Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b.
1686)
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1828 -
Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, second wife of Tsar
Paul I of Russia (b.
1759)
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1836 -
Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b.
1810)
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1879 -
James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b.
1831)
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1930 -
Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1858)
*
1933 -
Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress, and musician (b.
1884)
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1941 -
Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist (b.
1905)
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1942 -
George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer (b.
1878)
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1944 -
Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1873)
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1951 -
Reggie Walker, South African athlete (b.
1889)
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1955 -
Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b.
1883)
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1956 -
Art Tatum, American musician (b.
1909)
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1960 -
Ward Bond, American actor (b.
1903)
* 1960 -
Johnny Horton, Country music singer, (b.
1925)
* 1960 -
Mack Sennett, Canadian producer and director (b.
1880)
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1971 -
Sam Jones, baseball player (b.
1925)
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1974 -
Stafford Repp, American actor (b.
1918)
*
1975 -
Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1909)
* 1975 -
Lionel Trilling, American critic and writer (b.
1905)
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1977 -
René Goscinny, French comic book writer (b.
1926)
* 1977 -
Guy Lombardo, Canadian conductor (b.
1902)
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1979 -
Al Capp, American cartoonist (b.
1909)
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1982 -
Jacques Tati, French actor and director (b.
1908)
*
1985 -
Spencer W. Kimball, president of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b.
1895)
* 1985 -
Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (b.
1898)
*
1989 -
Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist (b.
1903)
* 1990 -
Meir Kahane, American rabbi and activist (b.
1932)
*
1991 -
Fred MacMurray, American actor (b.
1908)
* 1991 -
Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (b.
1923)
*
1992 -
Árpád Élő, Hungarian physicist (b.
1903)
*
1997 -
Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-born historian of ideas (b.
1909)
*
2000 -
Victor Grinich, American businessman (b.
1924)
*
2001 -
Roy Boulting, English film director and producer (b.
1913)
*
2003 -
Bobby Hatfield, American singer (
Righteous Brothers) (b.
1940)
*
2005 -
Rod Donald, New Zealand environmentalist (b.
1957)
* 2005 -
John Fowles, English writer (b.
1926)
* 2005 -
Link Wray, American musician (b.
1929)
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United Kingdom and
New Zealand -
Guy Fawkes night (also called Bonfire night; or Fireworks night): Failure of the
Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament in
1605 is celebrated with
bonfires and
fireworks.
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R.C. Saints -
November 5th is the
feast day of the following
Roman Catholic Saints:
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St. Bertilia**
St. Dominator**
St. Domninus**
St. Elizabeth**
St. Felix and Eusebius**
St. Fibitius**
St. Galation**
St. Laetus**
St. Magnus**
St. Sylvia**
Pope Zachary* Ancient
Latvia - the festival
Katrina*
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