
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 Empire 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 III of England 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, Libya and Cyrenaica. * 1912 - U.S. presidential election, 1912: United States Democratic Party ic challenger Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over United States Republican Party 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 of Bavaria. * 1914 - United Kingdom annexes Cyprus, and together with France declares war on the Ottoman Empire. * 1916 - The Kingdom of Poland (Mitteleuropa) proclaimed by the November 5th Act of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary. * 1917 - 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 (game). * 1937 - World War II: Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the Germany people. * 1940 - U.S. presidential election, 1940: United States Democrat Party incumbent Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeats United States Republican Party 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: United States Republican Party challenger Richard M. Nixon defeats Vice President Hubert Humphrey and American Independent Party candidate George 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: United States Democrat Party incumbent Bill Clinton defeats United States Republican Party 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 (journal)'' 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 ''The Matrix'' Trilogy (''The Matrix Revolutions'') is released in theatres simultaneously around the world at 9:00 am. == Births == *1742 - Richard Cosway, English artist (d. 1821) *1854 - Paul Sabatier (chemist), 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 *1863 - James Packard, automobile pioneer (d. 1928) *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 *1912 - Roy Rogers, actor (d. 1998) *1913 - Vivien Leigh, actress (d. 1967) *1921 - Fawzia of Egypt, Queen of Iran *1931 - Ike Turner, musician *1941 - Art Garfunkel, musician *1941 - Elke Sommer, actress *1943 - Sam Shepard, playwright, actor *1946 - Herman Brood, musician, artist *1946 - Gram Parsons, musician (d. 1973) *1947 - Peter Noone, musician, actor *1949 - Armin Shimerman, American actor (''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'') *1952 - Bill Walton, basketball player and commentator *1955 - Bernard Chazelle, computational geometry researcher *1959 - Bryan Adams, musician *1963 - Tatum O'Neal, actress *1965 - Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress *1971 - Corin Nemec, American actor (''Parker Lewis Can't Lose'', ''Stargate SG-1'') *1973 - Johnny Damon, baseball player *1974 - Jerry Stackhouse, basketball player *1974 - Ryan Adams, musician *1986 - BoA, Korean singer == Deaths == *1803 - Choderlos de Laclos, French writer (b. 1741) *1836 - Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810) *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 - Guy Lombardo, conductor *1979 - Al Capp, cartoonist *1982 - Jacques Tati, French actor and director *1985 - Spencer W. Kimball, president of 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 musician, one of the Righteous Brothers == 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 == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/5 BBC: On This Day] ---- November 4 - November 6 - October 5 - December 5 - more historical anniversaries la:5 Novembris
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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 Empire 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 III of England 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, Libya and Cyrenaica. * 1912 - U.S. presidential election, 1912: United States Democratic Party ic challenger Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over United States Republican Party 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 of Bavaria. * 1914 - United Kingdom annexes Cyprus, and together with France declares war on the Ottoman Empire. * 1916 - The Kingdom of Poland (Mitteleuropa) proclaimed by the November 5th Act of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary. * 1917 - 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 (game). * 1937 - World War II: Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the Germany people. * 1940 - U.S. presidential election, 1940: United States Democrat Party incumbent Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeats United States Republican Party 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: United States Republican Party challenger Richard M. Nixon defeats Vice President Hubert Humphrey and American Independent Party candidate George 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: United States Democrat Party incumbent Bill Clinton defeats United States Republican Party 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 (journal)'' 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 ''The Matrix'' Trilogy (''The Matrix Revolutions'') is released in theatres simultaneously around the world at 9:00 am. == Births == *1742 - Richard Cosway, English artist (d. 1821) *1854 - Paul Sabatier (chemist), 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 *1863 - James Packard, automobile pioneer (d. 1928) *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 *1912 - Roy Rogers, actor (d. 1998) *1913 - Vivien Leigh, actress (d. 1967) *1921 - Fawzia of Egypt, Queen of Iran *1931 - Ike Turner, musician *1941 - Art Garfunkel, musician *1941 - Elke Sommer, actress *1943 - Sam Shepard, playwright, actor *1946 - Herman Brood, musician, artist *1946 - Gram Parsons, musician (d. 1973) *1947 - Peter Noone, musician, actor *1949 - Armin Shimerman, American actor (''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'') *1952 - Bill Walton, basketball player and commentator *1955 - Bernard Chazelle, computational geometry researcher *1959 - Bryan Adams, musician *1963 - Tatum O'Neal, actress *1965 - Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress *1971 - Corin Nemec, American actor (''Parker Lewis Can't Lose'', ''Stargate SG-1'') *1973 - Johnny Damon, baseball player *1974 - Jerry Stackhouse, basketball player *1974 - Ryan Adams, musician *1986 - BoA, Korean singer == Deaths == *1803 - Choderlos de Laclos, French writer (b. 1741) *1836 - Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810) *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 - Guy Lombardo, conductor *1979 - Al Capp, cartoonist *1982 - Jacques Tati, French actor and director *1985 - Spencer W. Kimball, president of 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 musician, one of the Righteous Brothers == 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 == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/5 BBC: On This Day] ---- November 4 - November 6 - October 5 - December 5 - more historical anniversaries la:5 Novembris
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