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November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in Leap Year s) 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 .
- 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 hanged, drawn and quartered for his role in the conspiracy.
- lands at Brixham .
- 1838 - The United States Of Central America began to disintegrate when Honduras separated from the federation.
- removes George McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time.
- 1862 - , more than 300 Santee Sioux are found guilty of Rape and Murder of white settlers and are sentenced to hang.
- 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 .
- challenger Woodrow Wilson wins a victory over the Progressive former President Theodore Roosevelt and 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 .
- 1913 - 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.
- 1916 - The Everett Massacre takes place as political differences lead to a shoot-out between IWW organizers and local police
- 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 .
- holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.
- incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States ' only 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.
- 1965 - State of Emergency declared in Rhodesia after collapse of negotiations with Great Britain over Rhodesian independence ( UDI would follow six days later)
- challenger Richard M. Nixon defeats Vice President Hubert Humphrey and American Independent Party candidate George C. Wallace .
- 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".
- 1985 - Reliquary Of St Maurus from the 13th century discovered in a cache in the chapel of Bečov Castle .
- , 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 Police men Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn during a struggle.
- 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 .
- incumbent Bill Clinton defeats Republican challenger Bob Dole to win his second term.
- 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 .
- issues a preliminary ruling that software maker Microsoft had "monopoly power".
- 2000 - Emperor Haile Selassie I given an Imperial funeral by the Ethiopian Orthodox church
- 2003 - The final installment of the '' Matrix '' Trilogy ('' The Matrix Revolutions '') is released in theatres simultaneously around the world at 2:00 pm (GMT).
- 2004 - '' The Incredibles '' is released by '' Buena Vista Distribution '' in the United States .
- 2006 - Nicaraguan Presidential Election. Ortega, Montealegra, and Lewites are the candidates.
Births
- 1271 - Mahmud Ghazan , Persian ruler (d. 1304 )
- 1549 - Philippe De Mornay , French writer (d. 1623 )
- 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 )
- 1701 - Pietro Longhi , Venetian painter (d. 1785 )
- 1715 - John Brown , English writer (d. 1766 )
- 1722 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron , English dueler (d. 1798 )
- 1742 - Richard Cosway , English artist (d. 1821 )
- 1851 - Charles Dupuy , French prime minister (d. 1923 )
- 1854 - Paul Sabatier , French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941 )
- 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 )
- 1885 - Will Durant , American historian (d. 1981 )
- 1890 - Jan Zrzavý , Czech painter (d. 1977 )
- 1892 - J. B. S. Haldane , Scottish geneticist (d. 1964 )
- 1895 - Walter Gieseking , French pianist (d. 1956 )
- 1895 - Charles MacArthur , American author (d. 1956 )
- 1900 - Martin Dies, Jr. , American politician (d. 1972 )
- 1900 - Natalie Schafer , American actress (d. 1991 )
- 1904 - Cooney Weiland , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1985 )
- 1905 - Joel McCrea , American actor (d. 1990 )
- 1906 - Fred Lawrence Whipple , American astronomer (d. 2004 )
- 1911 - Roy Rogers , American actor (d. 1998 )
- 1913 - Vivien Leigh , English actress (d. 1967 )
- 1914 - Alton Tobey , American artist (d. 2005 )
- 1919 - Myron Floren , American accordianist, '' The Lawrence Welk Show '' (d. 2005 )
- 1920 - Douglass North , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1921 - Georges Cziffra , Hungarian pianist (d. 1994)
- 1921 - Fawzia Of Egypt , Queen of Iran
- 1931 - Ike Turner , American musician
- 1938 - César Luis Menotti , Argentine footballer
- 1941 - Art Garfunkel , American musician
- 1941 - Elke Sommer , German actress
- 1943 - Sam Shepard , American playwright and actor
- 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 )
- 1947 - Peter Noone , English musician and actor
- 1948 - Hrdayananda Gosvami , ISKCON guru
- 1948 - Bernard-Henri Lévy , French public intellectual
- 1948 - William Daniel Phillips , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1949 - Armin Shimerman , American actor
- 1952 - Bill Walton , American basketball player and commentator
- 1955 - Bernard Chazelle , French-born computer scientist
- 1958 - Robert Patrick , American actor
- 1959 - Bryan Adams , Canadian musician
- 1961 - Gina Mastrogiacomo , American actress (d. 2001 )
- 1962 - Abédi Pelé , Ghanian Footballer
- 1963 - Andrea McArdle , American actress
- 1963 - Tatum O'Neal , American actress
- 1965 - Famke Janssen , Dutch model and actress
- 1968 - Sam Rockwell , American film actor
- 1971 - Corin Nemec , American actor
- 1971 - Jonny Greenwood , Guitarist ( Radiohead )
- 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 )
- 1977 - Richard Wright , English footballer
- 1986 - BoA , Korean singer
- 1986 - Kasper Schmeichel , Danish footballer
Deaths
- 1515 - Mariotto Albertinelli , Italian painter (b. 1474 )
- 1559 - Kano Motonobu , Japanese painter (b. 1476 )
- 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 )
- 1836 - Karel Hynek Mácha , Czech poet (b. 1810 )
- 1879 - James Clerk Maxwell , Scottish physicist (b. 1831 )
- 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 )
- 1941 - Arndt Pekurinen , Finnish pacifist (b. 1905 )
- 1942 - George M. Cohan , American musician, actor, writer, and composer (b. 1878 )
- 1944 - Alexis Carrel , French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1873 )
- 1951 - Reggie Walker , South African athlete (b. 1889 )
- 1955 - Maurice Utrillo , French artist (b. 1883 )
- 1956 - Art Tatum , American musician (b. 1909 )
- 1960 - Ward Bond , American actor (b. 1903 )
- 1960 - Mack Sennett , Canadian producer and director (b. 1880 )
- 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 )
- 1977 - René Goscinny , French comic book writer (b. 1926 )
- 1977 - Guy Lombardo , Canadian conductor (b. 1902 )
- 1979 - Al Capp , American cartoonist (b. 1909 )
- 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 )
- 1989 - Vladimir Horowitz , Russian pianist (b. 1903 )
- 1990 - Erich Heller , British philosopher, long resident in the U.S. (b. 1911 )
- 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 )
Holidays and observances
External links
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