November 5
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November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 56 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Events [change]
- 1138 - Ly Anh Tong becomes Emperor of Vietnam at the age of two years, starting a 37-year reign.
- 1605 – The Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Parliament fails. Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators are arrested, ending the plot led by Robert Catesby.
- 1688 – Glorious Revolution begins: William of Orange lands at Brixham. James II of England is prevented from meeting him in battle because many of his officers and men desert to the other side.
- 1743 - Coordinated scientific observations of the planet Mercury are organised by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.
- 1757 - Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
- 1811 - Priest Jose Matias Delgado begins El Salvador's 1811 independence campaign.
- 1831 - Nat Turner, American slave rebellion leader, is tried, convicted and sentenced to death in Virginia.
- 1838 - The Federal Republic of Central America begins to dissolve when Nicaragua breaks away.
- 1854 - Crimean War: The Battle of Inkerman takes place.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union army for the second, and final, time.
- 1872 – Susan B. Anthony defies the ban on female suffrage (voting), by voting in the United States Presidential election.
- 1895 - George B. Selden is granted the first US patent for an automobile.
- 1911 - After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, Italy takes control of Tripoli and Cyrenaica in present-day Libya.
- 1912 – Woodrow Wilson is elected President of the United States. William Taft, in finishing third (behind Theodore Roosevelt running for the Progressive Party), scores the worst-ever result of a US President seeking re-election.
- 1913 - Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, the Prince-Regent, who becomes Ludwig III of Bavaria.
- 1916 – The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed.
- 1917 – The provisional government of Estonia is overthrown, in the run-up to the October Revolution in Russia, which is so named because of the Julian Calendar in use in Russia at the time.
- 1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to serve a record third term as President of the United States.
- 1942 – World War II: The United Kingdom wins the second battle of El-Alamein in Egypt.
- 1945 – Colombia joins the UN.
- 1967 – A train crash at Hither Green, in Southeast London, kills 49 people.
- 1968 – Richard Nixon is elected President of the United States, over Hubert H. Humphrey.
- 1970 - Vietnam War: The US Military Assistance command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years, at 24.
- 1987 – Anti-Apartheid activist Govan Mbeki is released after 24 years in prison.
- 1990 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after giving a speech in a New York City hotel.
- 1995 - Andre Dallaire attempts to kill Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chretien.
- 1996 – Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari dismisses Benazir Bhutto's government, and dissolves Pakistan's National Assembly.
- 1996 – Flooding is caused in thinly-inhabited parts of Iceland, after the volcano under the Grimsvotn ice cap erupts.
- 1996 – Bill Clinton is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States, defeating Senator Bob Dole.
- 2003 - Green River Killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of murder.
- 2006 – Saddam Hussein is found guilty of Crimes against Humanity. He is sentenced to death.
- 2007 - China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
- 2009 – United States Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan goes on a shooting rampage, killing 13, and wounding 30 people at Fort Hood, Texas. It is the worst mass shooting ever to take place at a US military base.
Births [change]
- 1271 – Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
- 1494 – Hans Sachs, German meistersinger (d. 1576)
- 1549 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (d. 1623)
- 1592 - Charles Chauncy, English-born President of Harvard College (d. 1672)
- 1607 - Anna Maria von Schurman, Dutch-German polymath (d. 1678)
- 1615 – Ibrahim I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1648)
- 1666 - Attilio Ariosti, Italian composer (d. 1729)
- 1667 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
- 1701 - Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (d. 1785)
- 1705 - Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French composer and violinist (d. 1770)
- 1739 - Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglington, Scottish peer, composer and politician (d. 1819)
- 1779 - Washington Allston, American painter and writer (d. 1843)
- 1818 - Benjamin Franklin Butler, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1893)
- 1851 – Charles Dupuy, Prime Minister of France (d. 1923)
- 1854 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist (d. 1941)
- 1855 - Leon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913)
- 1855 - Eugene V. Debs, American socialist leader (d. 1926)
- 1857 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist (d. 1944)
- 1870 - Chittaranjan Das, Indian politician (d. 1925)
- 1878 - Kuzma Petrov-Vadkin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
- 1885 – Will Durant, American historian (d. 1981)
- 1887 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian pianist (d. 1961)
- 1891 - Greasy Neale, American football coach and baseball player (d. 1973)
- 1892 - John Alcock, British pilot (d. 1919)
- 1892 - J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (d. 1964)
- 1895 – Walter Gieseking, German pianist (d. 1956)
- 1904 - Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Brazilian footballer (d. 1980)
- 1905 – John Whedon, American screenwriter (d. 1991)
- 1906 – Fred Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
- 1911 – Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1913 – Vivien Leigh, English actress (d. 1967)
- 1917 – Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (d. 2000)
- 1920 – Douglass North, American economist
- 1921 - Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist (d. 2004)
- 1921 - Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt
- 1923 – Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (Der Spiegel magazine) (d. 2002)
- 1931 – Charles Taylor, Canadian philosopher
- 1931 – Ike Turner, American musician (d. 2007)
- 1934 - Victor Argo, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1935 – Lester Piggott, British jockey
- 1936 – Uwe Seeler, German footballer
- 1938 – Joe Dassin, American singer (d. 1980)
- 1938 – Cesar Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer
- 1938 - Jim Steranko, American graphic artist
- 1939 - Lobsang Tenzin, 5th Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile
- 1940 – Anthony Rolfe Johnson, British tenor (d. 2010)
- 1940 – Elke Sommer, German actress
- 1940 – Ted Kulongoski, American politician and former Governor of Oregon
- 1941 – Art Garfunkel, American musician
- 1942 - Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
- 1943 – Sam Shepard, American actor, author and playwright
- 1947 - Peter Noone, British singer
- 1948 – Bob Barr, American politician
- 1948 – William Daniel Phillips, American physicist
- 1950 – Thorbjorn Jagland, Norwegian politician
- 1952 – Oleg Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer
- 1952 - Bill Walton, American basketball player
- 1957 - Kellen Winslow, American football player
- 1958 - Don Falcone, American musician and producer
- 1958 - Mo Gaffney, American actress and comedienne
- 1958 - Robert Patrick, American actor
- 1959 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1960 – Tilda Swinton, British actress
- 1961 - Alan G. Poindexter, American astronaut (d. 2012)
- 1963 - Andrea McArdle, American actress
- 1963 – Jean-Pierre Papin, French footballer
- 1963 – Tatum O'Neal, American actress
- 1964 – Abedi Pele, Ghanaian footballer
- 1966 - Georgia Apostolou, Greek actress
- 1966 - Nayim, Spanish footballer
- 1968 - Sam Rockwell, American actor
- 1970 – Tamzin Outhwaite, British actress
- 1970 - Shaun Murphy, Irish-Australian footballer
- 1971 - Chris Addison, English comedian
- 1971 - Jonny Greenwood, English musician (Radiohead)
- 1971 - Dana Jacobson, American sportscaster
- 1973 – Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1973 - Johnny Damon, American baseball player
- 1973 - Danniella Westbrook, British actress
- 1974 – Ryan Adams, American singer
- 1974 – Dado Prso, Croatian footballer
- 1979 - David Suazo, Honduran footballer
- 1979 - Michalis Hatzigiannis, Greek-Cypriot songwriter and singer
- 1979 – Patrick Owomoyela, German footballer
- 1980 – Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
- 1980 - Eva Gonzalez, Spanish model and beauty queen
- 1982 - Rob Swire, Australian singer, musician and record producer
- 1983 - Alexa Chung, British television presenter and former fashion model
- 1983 – Mike Hanke, German footballer
- 1984 - Nikolay Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
- 1986 – BoA, South Korean singer
- 1986 – Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
- 1987 – Kevin Jonas, American musician (The Jonas Brothers)
Deaths [change]
- 1370 – Casimir III the Great, King of Poland (b. 1310)
- 1515 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1476)
- 1758 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
- 1807 – Angelica Kauffman, Swiss-Austrian painter (b. 1741)
- 1828 – Maria Fyodorovna of Russia (b. 1759)
- 1879 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831)
- 1930 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist (b. 1858)
- 1933 - Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress and musician (b. 1884)
- 1933 - Walther von Dyck, German mathematician (b. 1856)
- 1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer and composer (b. 1878)
- 1944 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
- 1955 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1883)
- 1956 – Art Tatum, American jazz musician (b. 1909)
- 1960 – Johnny Horton, American country singer (b. 1925)
- 1975 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (b. 1887)
- 1975 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist (b. 1909)
- 1977 – Rene Goscinny, French comic book writer (b. 1926)
- 1977 - Guy Lombardo, Canadian conductor (b. 1902)
- 1979 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
- 1981 - Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa Lama, Tibetan religious figure (b. 1924)
- 1985 - Spencer W. Kimball, American religious figure (b. 1895)
- 1986 - Bobby Nunn, American singer (b. 1925)
- 1989 – Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-born pianist (b. 1903)
- 1990 – Meir Kahane, rabbi (b. 1932)
- 1991 – Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media tycoon (b. 1923)
- 1997 – Isaiah Berlin, Latvian philosopher and educator (b. 1909)
- 2000 - Jimmie Davis, American country music singer and politician (b. 1899)
- 2001 - Gholam Reza Azhari, Prime Minister of Iran
- 2002 - Billy Guy, American singer (b. 1925)
- 2003 – Bob Hatfield, American singer (The Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)
- 2006 – Bulent Ecevit, Turkish politician (b. 1925)
- 2006 – Pietro Rava, Italian footballer (b. 1916)
- 2007 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer (b. 1922)
- 2010 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944)
- 2010 - Shirley Verrett, American opera singer (b. 1931)
- 2012 - Elliott Carter, American composer (b. 1908)
Holidays [change]
- Guy Fawkes Night in Britain, Canada and New Zealand
