November 5

November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining.

Events

• 1556 - Fifty miles north of Delhi, a Mogul Army defeats Hindu forces of General Hemu to ensure Akbar the throne of India.
• 1605 - Gunpowder Plot: A plot by Guy Fawkes to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building
• 1688 - Glorious Revolution begins: William of Orange lands at Brixham.
• 1838 - The United States of Central America began to disintegrate when Honduras separated from the federation.
• 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.
• 1872 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
• 1895 - George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
• 1911 - After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
• 1912 - U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft.
• 1913 - The insane king Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumed the title Ludwig III.
• 1914 - United Kingdom annexes Cyprus, and together with France declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 1916 - The Kingdom of Poland proclaimed by the November 5th Act of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
• 1917 - St. Tikhon of Moscow was elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
• 1930 - Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1935 - Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly.
• 1937 - World War II: Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.
• 1940 - U.S. presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States' first third-term president.
• 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.
• 1968 - U.S. presidential election, 1968: Republican challenger Richard M. Nixon defeats Vice President Hubert Humphrey and American Independent Party candidate George C. Wallace.
• 1970 - Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
• 1979 - The radio news program Morning Edition premieres on National Public Radio.
• 1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini declares the USA to be "the great Satan".
• 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 is beaten to death by policemen Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn during a struggle.
• 1994 - A letter by former US 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.
• 1996 - U.S. presidential election, 1996: Democrat incumbent Bill Clinton defeats Republican challenger Bob Dole to win his second term.
• 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.
• 1999 - United States v. Microsoft: US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issues a preliminary ruling that software maker Microsoft had "monopoly power".
• 2003 - The final installment of the Matrix Trilogy (The Matrix Revolutions) is released in theatres simultaneously around the world at 2:00 pm(GMT).

Births

• 1592 - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (d. 1672)
• 1613 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691)
• 1615 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1648)
• 1667 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
• 1742 - Richard Cosway, English artist (d. 1821)
• 1854 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
• 1855 - Eugene V. Debs, American socialist leader
• 1855 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, meteorologist (d. 1913)
• 1857 - Ida Tarbell, journalist
• 1885 - Will Durant, American historian (d. 1981)
• 1892 - J. B. S. Haldane, geneticist
• 1895 - Walter Gieseking, French conductor (d. 1956)
• 1895 - Charles MacArthur, author (d. 1956)
• 1900 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d. 1972)
• 1905 - Joel McCrea, actor
• 1906 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
• 1912 - Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1913 - Vivien Leigh, American actress (d. 1967)
• 1921 - Fawzia of Egypt, Queen of Iran
• 1931 - Ike Turner, musician
• 1941 - Art Garfunkel, American musician
• 1941 - Elke Sommer, actress
• 1943 - Sam Shepard, playwright and actor
• 1946 - Herman Brood, musician and artist
• 1946 - Gram Parsons, musician (d. 1973)
• 1947 - Peter Noone, musician and actor
• 1948 - William Daniel Phillips, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1949 - Armin Shimerman, American actor
• 1952 - Bill Walton, basketball player and commentator
• 1955 - Bernard Chazelle, computational geometry researcher
• 1958 - Robert Patrick, American actor
• 1959 - Bryan Adams, musician
• 1963 - Tatum O'Neal, actress
• 1965 - Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress
• 1971 - Corin Nemec, American actor
• 1973 - Johnny Damon, baseball player
• 1974 - Jerry Stackhouse, basketball player
• 1974 - Ryan Adams, musician
• 1975 - Angela Gossow, German singer (Arch Enemy)
• 1986 - BoA, Korean singer

Deaths

• 1515 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1474)
• 1660 - Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (b. 1599)
• 1660 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
• 1701 - Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician
• 1714 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (b. 1633)
• 1752 - Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (b. 1670)
• 1758 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
• 1803 - Choderlos de Laclos, French writer (b. 1741)
• 1836 - Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810)
• 1879 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831)
• 1933 - Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress, and musician (b. 1884)
• 1937 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1941 - Arndt Pekurinen, pacifist
• 1942 - George M. Cohan, musician, actor, writer, composer
• 1951 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete
• 1955 - Maurice Utrillo, French artist
• 1956 - Art Tatum, musician
• 1960 - Mack Sennett, Canadian producer and director (b. 1880)
• 1960 - Ward Bond, actor
• 1974 - Stafford Repp, actor (b. 1918)
• 1975 - Lionel Trilling, American critic and writer
• 1977 - René Goscinny, French comic book writer (b. 1926)
• 1977 - Guy Lombardo, conductor
• 1979 - Al Capp, cartoonist
• 1982 - Jacques Tati, French actor and director
• 1985 - Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895)
• 1986 - Noah Alexander Jones, American musician, one of the Doobie Brothers
• 1989 - Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
• 1990 - Meir Kahane, Jewish activist
• 1991 - Fred MacMurray, American actor
• 1997 - Isaiah Berlin, historian of ideas
• 2000 - Victor Grinich, Croatian-American businessman (b. 1924)
• 2001 - Roy Boulting, English film director and producer (b. 1913)
• 2003 - Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)

Holidays

• Ancient Latvia - the festival Katrina

Annual festivals

• 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.

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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