On this day in History - Nov. 5

• 1271 - Mahmud Ghazan was born (d. 1304). Persian ruler
• 1414 - Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens
• 1515 - Mariotto Albertinelli dies (b. 1474). Italian painter.
• 1522 - Andrés Amaral dies. Caballero portugués y canciller de la orden de San Juan de Jerusalén.
• 1530 - St. Felix's Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands
• 1549 - Philippe de Mornay was born (d. 1623). French writer
• 1556 - Second Battle of Panipat: Fifty miles north of Delhi, a Mogul Army defeats Hindu forces of General Hemu to ensure Akbar the throne of India.
• 1559 - Kano Motonobu dies (b. 1476). Japanese painter.
• 1592 - Charles Chauncy was born (d. 1672). English-born president of Harvard College
• 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
• 1613 - Isaac de Benserade was born (d. 1691), French poet
• 1615 - Ibrahim I was born (d. 1648). Ottoman Sultan
• 1660 - Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle dies (d. 1599). English socialite.
• 1660 - Alexandre de Rhodes dies (b. 1591). French Jesuit missionay.
• 1667 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola was born (d. 1719). German painter.
• 1688 - Glorious Revolution begins: William of Orange lands at Brixham.
• 1701 - Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield dies. French-born English politician.
• 1714 - Bernardino Ramazzini dies (b. 1633). Italian physician.
• 1742 - Richard Cosway was born (d. 1821). English artist.
• 1752 - Carl Andreas Duker dies (b. 1670). German classical scholar.
• 1757 - Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeated the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire in the Battle of Rossbach.
• 1758 - Hans Egede dies (b. 1686). Lutheran missionary.
• 1780 - French-American force under Colonel LaBalme is defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
• 1807 - Angelica Catharina Maria Anna Kauffman dies (b. 30 Oct 1740). Swiss Neoclassical painter and etcher
• 1815 - Martins Pena was born (d. 1848). Brazilian dramatist and diplomat.
• 1836 - Karel Hynek Mácha dies (b. 1810). Czech poet.
• 1838 - The United States of Central America began to disintegrate when Honduras separated from the federation.
• 1849 - Rui Barbosa was born (d. 1923). Brazilian statesman and writer.
• 1854 - The Battle of Inkerman was fought during the Crimean War / Batalha de Inkerman, durante a Guerra da Crimeia. A vitória das forças britânicas sobre as russas, permitiu a realização do cerco a Sebastopol.
• 1854 - Paul Sabatier was born (d. 1941). French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1912.
• 1855 - Eugene V. Debs was born (d. 1926). American socialist leader.
• 1855 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort was born (d. 1913). French meteorologist.
• 1857 - Ida Tarbell was born (d. 1944). American journalist.
• 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.
• 1867 - Nasce Eugénio Tavares, poeta cabo-verdiano.
• 1872 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
• 1873 - Howard Carter was born († 1939) . British archeologist.
• 1879 - James Clerk Maxwell dies (b. 1831). Scottish physicist.
• 1881 - Robert Mallet dies (b. 3 Jun 1810). Irish engineer and geologist
• 1885 - Will Durant was born (d. 1981). American historian.
• 1890 - Jan Zrzavý was born (d. 1977). Czech painter.
• 1892 - J. B. S. Haldane was born (d. 1964). Scottish geneticist.
• 1893 - Sobral Pinto (Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto) was born in Barbacena- MG (d. 1991). Brazilian jurist
• 1895 - Walter Gieseking was born (d. 1956). French conductor.
• 1895 - Charles MacArthur was born (d. 1956). American author.
• 1895 - George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
• 1897 - Brasil: Presidente Prudente de Morais sofre atentado
• 1900 - Martin Dies, Jr. was born (d. 1972). American politician.
• 1905 - Joel McCrea was born (d. 1990). American actor.
• 1906 - Fred Lawrence Whipple was born (d. 2004). American astronomer
• 1911 - Roy Rogers was born (d. 1998). American actor.
• 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.
• 1913 - United Kingdom annexes Cyprus, and together with France declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 1913 - Vivien Leigh was born (d. 1967). American actress ( Gone With Wind, Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn )
• 1914 - August Weismann dies (b. 1834). German biologist.
• 1916 - Madeleine Robinson was born (d. 1 Aug 2004). French actress.
• 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 - O Comando do Corpo Expedicionário Português assumiu a responsabilidade da defesa do Sector Português na frente ocidental durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial. Estava subordinado ao 1.º Exército britânico, comandado pelo general Horne.
• 1917 - St. Tikhon of Moscow was elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
• 1917 - Filinto Ramalho was born in Vouzela (d. 2001). Prior of Sacavém (Portugal)
• 1919 - Félix Gaillard d'Aimé was born (d. 10 Jul 1970). French politician
• 1920 - Douglass North was born. American economist, Nobel Prize laureate .
• 1921 - Fawzia of Egypt was born. Queen of Iran.
• 1930 - Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters.”
• 1930 - Christiaan Eijkman dies (b. 1858). Dutch physician. Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1929.
• 1931 - Ike Turner was born. American musician.
• 1933 - Paulo César Saraceni was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actor and director.
• 1933 - Texas Guinan dies (b. 1884). American saloon keeper, actress, and musician.
• 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.
• 1937 - Rui Claumann was born (d. 1987). Brazilian actor.
• 1938 - Enéas Carneiro was born. Brazilian politician.
• 1938 - Joe Dassin was born (d. 20 Aug 1980). French singer.
• 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.
• 1941 - Art Garfunkel was born. American musician.
• 1941 - Elke Sommer was born. German actress.
• 1941 - Arndt Pekurinen dies (b. 1905). Finnish pacifist.
• 1942 - George M. Cohan dies (b. 1878). American musician, actor, writer, and composer.
• 1943 - Sam Shepard was born. American playwright and actor .
• 1944 - British official Lord Moyne was assassinated in Cairo, Egypt, by the Zionist Stern gang.
• 1945 - Colombia joins the United Nations.
• 1946 - United States: Republicans captured control of both the Senate and the House in midterm elections.
• 1946 - Herman Brood was born. Dutch musician and artist.
• 1946 - Gram Parsons was born (d. 1973). American musician.
• 1947 - Peter Noone was born. English musician and actor.
• 1948 - Peter Hammill was born. English rock musician and singer. Founder of Van der Graaf Generator
• 1948 - William Daniel Phillips was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate .
• 1949 - Armin Shimerman was born. American actor.
• 1951 - I Love Lucy airs for the first time.
• 1951 - Reggie Walker dies (b. 1889). South African athlete.
• 1952 - Bill Walton was born. American basketball player and commentator.
• 1953 - Nobel prize for physics awarded on Frederik Zernicke
• 1953 - Dimite en Israel el primer ministro, David Ben Gurión.
• 1955 - Bernard Chazelle was born. French-born computer scientist.
• 1955 - Maurice Utrillo dies (b. 1883). French artist.
• 1956 - Art Tatum dies (b. 1909). American musician.
• 1958 - Robert Patrick was born. American actor.
• 1959 - Bryan Adams was born. Canadian musician.
• 1960 - Tilda Swinton was born. American actress.
• 1960 - Mack Sennett dies (b. 1880). Canadian producer and director.
• 1960 - Ward Bond dies (b. 1903). American actor.
• 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.
• 1963 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer receives The Nobel Prize for Physics
• 1963 - Tatum O'Neal was born. American actress.
• 1963 - Jean-Pierre Papin was born. French football player.
• 1964 - The Nobel Physics Prize is announced to go to Townes, Basov, and Prokhorov “for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle.”
• 1965 - State of Emergency declared in Rhodesia after collapse of negotiations with Great Britain over Rhodesian independence (UDI would follow six days later)
• 1965 - Famke Janssen was born. Danish model and actress.
• 1967 - Un golpe de Estado militar en Yemen derroca al mariscal 'Abd Allah as-Sallal.
• 1968 - Aitana Sanchez-Gijon was born. Spanish actress.
• 1968 - U.S. presidential election, 1968: Republican challenger Richard M. Nixon defeats Vice President Hubert Humphrey and American Independent Party candidate George C. Wallace.
• 1968 - The first black woman representative to serve in Congress, Shirley Chisholm, was elected.
• 1969 - In Chicago, Illinois, Bobby Seale [22 Oct 1936~], the founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, is sentenced to four years in prison on sixteen counts of contempt of court
• 1970 - Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
• 1971 - Corin Nemec was born. American actor.
• 1973 - Johnny Damon was born. Baseball player.
• 1974 - Jerry Stackhouse was born. American basketball player.
• 1974 - Ryan Adams was born. American musician.
• 1974 - Stafford Repp dies (b. 1918). American actor.
• 1975 - Lionel Trilling dies (b. 1905). American critic and writer.
• 1975 - Sao Tome and Principe adopts constitution
• 1975 - The Travis Walton abduction happens.
• 1975 - Edward Lawrie Tatum dies (b. 1909). American microbiologist.
• 1975 - Angela Gossow was born. German singer (Arch Enemy).
• 1977 - Richard Wright was born. English football player.
• 1977 - René Goscinny dies (b. 1926). French comic book writer.
• 1977 - Guy Lombardo dies (b. 1902). Canadian conductor.
• 1977 - Jodi Webb was born. Miss Utah Teen USA 1996
• 1978 - Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
• 1979 - Al Capp dies (b. 1909). American cartoonist .
• 1979 - Franz Black was born. Underground Rapper (NYC)-(Brothers East).
• 1979 - The radio news program Morning Edition premieres on National Public Radio.
• 1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini declares the USA to be "the great Satan".
• 1980 - Christoph Metzelder was born. German football player
• 1981 - Javier Pereira was born. Spanish writer.
• 1982 - Inauguração da hidrelétrica de Itaipú na fronteira entre o Brasil e o Paraguai, a maior do mundo na época.
• 1982 - Jacques Tati dies (b. 1908). French actor and director.
• 1985 - Spencer W. Kimball dies (b. 1895). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• 1985 - Humberto Mauro dies (b. 1897). Brazilian film director
• 1985 - Reliquary of St Maurus from the 13th century discovered in a cache in the chapel of Bečov Castle.
• 1986 - BoA was born. Korean singer.
• 1986 - USS Rentz (FFG-46), USS Reeves (DLG-24) and USS Oldendorf (DD-972) visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China—the first US Naval visit to China since 1949.
• 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.
• 1989 - Vladimir Horowitz dies (b. 1903). Russian pianist.
• 1989 - 19th New York City Women's Marathon won by Ingrid Kristiansen in 2:25:30
• 1989 - 20th New York City Marathon won by Juma Ikangaa in 2:08:01
• 1990 - Rabbi Meir Kahane (b. 1932), founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
• 1991 - Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan
• 1991 - Robert Maxwell dies at 68. Slovakian-born billionaire publisher (New York Daily News). His body is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands
• 1991 - Fred MacMurray dies (b. 1908). American actor.
• 1992 - La poetisa cubana Dulce María Loynaz es galardonada con el Premio Miguel de Cervantes de Literatura
• 1992 - Bobby Fisher beats Boris Spassky to win Chess title in Belgrade
• 1992 - In Detroit, Michigan, black motorist Malice Green is beaten to death by policemen Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn during a struggle.
• 1992 - Arpad Elo dies (b. 1903). American physicist and chess player.
• 1994 - El ciclista suizo Tony Rominger bate el récord de la hora, con 55,291 km.
• 1994 - A letter by former US President Ronald Reagan is released that announces he has Alzheimer's disease.
• 1994 - El Parque de Doñana en Huelva declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO.
• 1994 - Forty-five year old George Foreman becomes boxing's oldest heavyweight champion when he knocks out Michael Moorer.
• 1994 - At 45, George Foreman, became the oldest heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas.
• 1995 - Ernest Gellner dies (b. 1925). Antropologist, sociologist and philosopher
• 1995 - An endless procession of Israelis filed past the simple wooden coffin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who'd been assassinated the night before.
1996 - U.S. presidential election, 1996: Democrat incumbent Bill Clinton defeats Republican challenger Bob Dole to win his second term.
• 1996 - President of Pakistan Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari dismissed the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolved National Assembly of Pakistan.
• 1996 - Eddie Harris dies b. 1934. American saxophonist.
• 1997 - James Robert Baker dies (b. 1946). American novelist, screenwriter.
• 1997 - Isaiah Berlin dies (b. 1909). Latvian-born historian of ideas.
• 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.
• 1998 - Fernando Brochado Coelho dies. Portuguese politician, founder of PPD (Patido Popular Democrático).
• 1999 - United States v. Microsoft: US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issues a preliminary ruling that software maker Microsoft had "monopoly power".
• 2000 - Abdelkhader El Mouaziz won the New York City Marathon, finishing in 2:10:09 and becoming the first Moroccan champion. Ludmila Petrova became the first Russian champion, winning the women's division in 2:25:45.
• 2000 - Emperor Haile Selassie I given an Imperial funeral by the Ethiopian Orthodox church
• 2000 - Victor Grinich dies (b. 1924). American businessman.
• 2000 - Jimmie Davis dies (b. 1899). Singer and politician.
• 2001 - Roy Boulting dies (b. 1913). English film director and producer
• 2001 - Jeannette Thorez-Vermeersch dies (b. 26 Nov 1910). French politician
• 2002 - Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon [27 Feb 1928 – 2007] announces early general elections. They will be held on 28 January 2003.
• 2003 - Bobby Hatfield dies (b. 1940), American singer (Righteous Brothers)
• 2003 - The final installment of the Matrix Trilogy (The Matrix Revolutions) is released in theatres simultaneously around the world at 2:00 pm (GMT).
• 2005 - Rod Donald dies (b. 1957). New Zealand environmentalist
• 2005 - John Fowles dies (b. 1926). English writer.
• 2006 - Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity.
• R.C. Saints - November 5th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
• St. Bertilia, St. Dominator, St. Domninus, St. Elizabeth, St. Felix and Eusebius, St. Fibitius, St. Galation, St. Aetus, St. Magnus, St. Sylvia, Pope Zacharias
• Ancient Latvia - the festival Katrina
• 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.
• Dia Nacional da Cultura (no Brasil)
• Dia do Cinema Brasileiro