On this day in History - Nov. 5
- 1271 - Mahmud Ghazan was born (d. 1304). Persian ruler.
- 1370 - Casimir III the Great king of Poland dies.
- 1414 - Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens.
- 1494 - Hans Sachs was born (d. 1576). German mastersinger.
- 1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary had been written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It's the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary in world History.
- 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 (b. 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 - Pietro Longhi was born (d. 1785). Venetian painter.
- 1701 - Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield dies (b. c. 1659). French-born English politician.
- 1714 - Bernardino Ramazzini dies (b. 1633). Italian physician.
- 1715 - John Brown was born (d. 1766). English writer.
- 1722 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron was born (d. 1798). English duelist.
- 1742 - Richard Cosway was born (d. 1821). English artist.
- 1743 - Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury were organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.
- 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.
- 1768 - Treaty of Fort Stanwix - The purpose of the conference was to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
- 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 - Luís Carlos Martins Pena was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. in Lisbon on 7 Dec 1848). Brazilian writer and diplomat.
- 1815 - Martins Pena was born (d. 1848). Brazilian dramatist and diplomat.
- 1818 - Benjamin Franklin Butler was born (d. 1893). 33rd Governor of Massachusetts.
- 1828 - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia dies (b. 1759). Second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia.
- 1831 - Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death.
- 1835 - Moritz Szeps was born (d. 1902). Austrian journalist.
- 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.
- 1838 - The Federal Republic of Central America begins to disintegrate when Nicaragua separated from the federation.
- 1839 - Rev. William Stainton Moses was born (d. 1892). English clergyman and spiritualist.
- 1846 - Duncan Gordon Boyes was born (d. 1869). English recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- 1849 - Ruy Barbosa de Oliveira was born (d. 1923). Brazilian statesman and writer.
- 1850 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born (d. 1919). American author and poet.
- 1851 - Charles Dupuy was born (d. 1923). French prime minister.
- 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 - Alphonse Desjardins was born (d. 1920). Québécois founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins.
- 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 - Date of baptism of Eugénio Tavares. He was born in Ilha Brava, Cape Vert on 18 Oct 1867 (d. 1 Jul 1930). Cape Verdian poet.
- 1872 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
- 1873 - Edwin Flack was born (d. 1935). Australian athlete, double Olympic gold medallist in 1896.
- 1873 - Howard Carter was born († 1939) . British archeologist.
- 1873 - Edwin Flack was born (d. 1935). Australian athlete, double Olympic gold medallist in 1896.
- 1879 - James Clerk Maxwell dies (b. 1831). Scottish physicist.
- 1881 - George A. Malcolm was born (d. 1961). American jurist & educator.
- 1881 - Robert Mallet dies (b. 3 Jun 1810). Irish engineer and geologist.
- 1884 - James Flecker was born (d. 1915). English writer.
- 1885 - Will Durant was born (d. 1981). American historian.
- 1887 - Paul Wittgenstein was born (d. 1961). Austrian-born pianist.
- 1890 - Jan Zrzavý was born (d. 1977). Czech painter.
- 1891 - António de Almeida was born (d. 9 Oct 1968). Portuguese engineer. See Engineer Antonio de Almeida Foundation
- 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
- 1894 - Djalma Guimarães was born. Brazilian geologist.
- 1895 - Walter Gieseking was born (d. 1956). French conductor.
- 1895 - Charles MacArthur was born (d. 1956). American author.
- 1897 - Brasil: Presidente Prudente de Morais sofre atentado
- 1898 - Pio Giannotti (Frei Damião) was born in Bozanno (d. 31 Mai 1997). Italian religious
- 1900 - Martin Dies, Jr. was born (d. 1972). American politician.
- 1900 - Natalie Schafer was born (d. 1991). American actress.
- 1904 - Cooney Weiland was born (d. 1985). Canadian hockey player.
- 1905 - Joel McCrea was born (d. 1990). American actor.
- 1906 - Fred Lawrence Whipple was born (d. 2004). American astronomer.
- 1906 - Endre Kabos was born (d. 1944). Hungarian Olympic champion fencer.
- 1911 - After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
- 1911 - Roy Rogers was born (d. 1998). American actor.
- 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 - Vivien Leigh was born (d. 1967). American actress (Gone With Wind, Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn )
- 1914 - Alton Tobey was born (d. 2005). American artist.
- 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 - October Revolution: In Tallinn, Esthonia, Communist leader Jaan Anwelt lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Esthonia and Russia are still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 23 date).
- 1917 - Banarsi Das Gupta was born (d. 2007). Indian former Chief Minister of Haryana.
- 1917 - Filinto Ramalho was born in Vouzela (d. 2001). Prior of Sacavém (Portugal)
- 1917 - Jacqueline Auriol was born (d. 2000). French aviatrix.
- 1919 - Hasan Askari was born (d. 1978). Pakistani philosopher
- 1919 - Myron Floren was born (d. 2005). American accordianist The Lawrence Welk Show.
- 1920 - Douglass North was born. American economist, Nobel Prize laureate .
- 1921 - Fawzia of Egypt was born. Queen of Iran.
- 1921 - Georges Cziffra was born (d. 1994). Hungarian pianist.
- 1922 - Violet Barclay was born. American illustrator.
- 1923 - Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen dies (b. 1880). French novelist.
- 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.
- 1934 - Victor Argo was born (d. 2004)., American actor.
- 1935 - Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly.
- 1935 - Christopher Wood was born. English screenwriter and novellist
- 1935 - Lester Piggott was born. British jockey.
- 1936 - Michael Dertouzos was born (d. 2001). Greek internet pioneer, Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science.
- 1937 - World War II: Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.
- 1937 - Harris Yulin was born. American actor.
- 1937 - Rui Claumann was born (d. 1987). Brazilian actor.
- 1938 - César Luis Menotti was born. Argentine football coach.
- 1938 - Enéas Carneiro was born. Brazilian politician.
- 1938 - Jim Steranko was born. American graphic artist, comic book writer-artist-historian, publisher, and film production illustrator.
- 1938 - Joe Dassin was born (d. 20 Aug 1980). French-speaking American 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.
- 1940 - Elke Sommer was born. German actress.
- 1941 - Art Garfunkel was born. American musician.
- 1941 - Arndt Pekurinen dies (b. 1905). Finnish pacifist.
- 1942 - George M. Cohan dies (b. 1878). American musician, actor, writer, and composer.
- 1943 - Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell) was born (d. 2007). German-born American TV chef.
- 1943 - Sam Shepard was born. American playwright and actor .
- 1944 - British official Lord Moyne was assassinated in Cairo, Egypt, by the Zionist Stern gang.
- 1944 - Alexis Carrel dies (b. 1873). French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- 1945 - Colombia joins the United Nations.
- 1945 - Aleka Papariga was born. Greek politician.
- 1945 - Peter Pace was born. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
- 1946 - United States: Republicans captured control of both the Senate and the House in midterm elections.
- 1946 - Gram Parsons was born (d. 1973). American musician.
- 1946 - Herman Brood was born. Dutch musician and artist.
- 1947 - Peter Noone was born. English musician and actor.
- 1948 - Hridayananda dasa Goswami was born. ISKCON guru.
- 1948 - Mel Ab-Owain was born. Welsh politician.
- 1948 - Bernard-Henri Lévy was born. French public intellectual.
- 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.
- 1949 - Jimmie Spheeris was born (d. 1984). American singer-songwriter.
- 1950 - Thorbjørn Jagland was born. Former Norwegian prime minister.
- 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.
- 1952 - Oleg Blokhin was born. Ukrainian footballer.
- 1952 - Vandana Shiva was born. Indian physicist.
- 1953 - Nobel prize for physics awarded on Frederik Zernicke.
- 1953 - Dimite en Israel el primer ministro, David Ben Gurión.
- 1953 - Joyce Maynard was born. American writer.
- 1953 - Renato Piau was born in Teresina, Piauí. Brazilian musician.
- 1955 - Bernard Chazelle was born. French computer scientist.
- 1955 - Karan Thapar was born. Foremost Indian Journalist, Political Analyst & Commentator
- 1955 - Nestor Serrano was born. American actor.
- 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.
- 1957 - Jon-Erik Hexum was born (d. 1984). American actor.
- 1958 - Don Falcone was born. American musician and producer.
- 1958 - Robert Patrick was born. American actor.
- 1959 - Bryan Adams was born. Canadian musician.
- 1960 - Tilda Swinton was born. American actress.
- 1960 - Johnny Horton dies (b. 1925). Country music singer.
- 1960 - Mack Sennett dies (b. 1880). Canadian producer and director.
- 1960 - Ward Bond dies (b. 1903). American actor.
- 1961 - David Bryson was born. American guitarist and vocalist (Counting Crows).
- 1961 - Gina Mastrogiacomo was born (d. 2001). American actress
- 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.
- 1962 - Abédi Pelé was born. Ghanaian footballer.
- 1962 - Marcus J. Ranum was born. American computer/network security innovator.
- 1963 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer receives The Nobel Prize for Physics.
- 1963 - Andrea McArdle was born. American actress.
- 1963 - Tatum O'Neal was born. American actress.
- 1963 - Jean-Pierre Papin was born. French football player.
- 1964 - Tim Blake Nelson was born. American actor.
- 1964 - Buddy Cole dies (b. 1916). American jazz pianist and orchestra leader.
- 1964 - Lansdale Sasscer dies (b. 1893). U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District.
- 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.
- 1965 - Kubrat, Prince of Panagiurishte was born. Titular Bulgarian royal family.
- 1966 - Georgia Apostolou was born. Greek actress.
- 1966 - Nayim was born. Spanish footballer.
- 1967 - The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. The survivors include Bee Gee Robin Gibb.
- 1967 - Un golpe de Estado militar en Yemen derroca al mariscal 'Abd Allah as-Sallal.
- 1967 - Marcelo D2 was born. Brazilian rapper.
- 1968 - The first black woman representative to serve in Congress, Shirley Chisholm, was elected.
- 1968 - USA Presidential Election: Republican Richard M. Nixon wins the American presidency, in what turned out to be a decades-long realignment election.
- 1968 - Aitana Sánchez-Gijón was born. Spanish actress.
- 1968 - Judy Reyes was born. Dominican American actress.
- 1968 - Sam Rockwell was born. American film actor.
- 1968 - Sosígenes Costa dies (b. 11 Nov 1901). Brazilian poet.
- 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).
- 1970 - Javy López was born. Puerto Rican baseball player.
- 1970 - Tamzin Outhwaite was born. English actress.
- 1971 - Corin Nemec was born. American actor.
- 1971 - Dana Jacobson was born. ESPN's First Take hostess.
- 1971 - Edmond Leung was born. Hong Kong singer.
- 1971 - Jonny Greenwood was born. Guitarist (Radiohead).
- 1971 - Sergei Berezin was born. National Hockey League player.
- 1971 - Sam Jones dies (b. 1925). Baseball player.
- 1973 - Alexei Yashin was born. Russian ice hockey player.
- 1973 - Daniella Westbrook was born. English actress.
- 1973 - Johnny Damon was born. American baseball player.
- 1974 - Angela Gossow was born. German vocalist (Arch Enemy).
- 1974 - Dado Pršo was born. Croatian footballer.
- 1974 - Jerry Stackhouse was born. American basketball player.
- 1974 - Ryan Adams was born. American musician.
- 1974 - Stafford Repp dies (b. 1918). American actor.
- 1975 - Sao Tome and Principe adopts constitution.
- 1975 - The Travis Walton abduction happens.
- 1975 - Annette Kellerman dies (b. 1887). Australian swimmer.
- 1975 - Edward Lawrie Tatum dies (b. 1909). American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- 1975 - Lionel Trilling dies (b. 1905). American critic and writer.
- 1977 - Brittney Skye was born. American porn star.
- 1977 - Richard Wright was born. English football player.
- 1977 - Guy Lombardo dies (b. 1902). Canadian conductor.
- 1977 - René Goscinny dies (b. 1926). French comic book writer.
- 1977 - Jodi Webb was born. Miss Utah Teen USA 1996.
- 1978 - Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
- 1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini declares the USA to be "the great Satan".
- 1979 - Mihalis Hatzigiannis was born. Greek-Cypriot songwriter and singer.
- 1979 - The radio news program Morning Edition premieres on National Public Radio.
- 1979 - Al Capp dies (b. 1909). American cartoonist.
- 1980 - Christoph Metzelder was born. German football player.
- 1980 - Eva González was born. Spanish model and beauty queen.
- 1980 - Jaime Camara was born. Brazilian racing driver.
- 1981 - Javier Pereira was born. Spanish actor.
- 1982 - E. H. Carr dies (b. 1892). British historian.
- 1982 - Jacques Tati dies (b. 1908). French actor and director.
- 1983 - Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
- 1983 - Andrew Hayden-Smith was born. TV presenter and actor.
- 1983 - Mike Hanke was born. German footballer.
- 1983 - Humberto Mauro dies (b. 1897). Brazilian film director.
- 1984 - Nick Folk was born. American football player.
- 1985 - Kate DeAraugo was born. Australian Idol 2005.
- 1985 - Tanaka Koki was born. Japanese idol (member of KAT-TUN).
- 1985 - Arnold Chikobava dies (b. 1898). Georgian linguist.
- 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 Beckov Castle.
- 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.
- 1986 - BoA was born. Korean singer.
- 1986 - Kasper Schmeichel was born. Danish footballer.
- 1986 - Bobby Nunn dies (b. 1925). American singer (The Coasters).
- 1986 - Claude Jutra dies (b. 1930). Québécois actor and film director.
- 1987 - Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years in prison. He had been sentenced to life for terrorism and treason.
- 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.
- 1987 - Kevin Jonas was born. American guitarist, member of the Jonas Brothers.
- 1987 - Eamonn Andrews dies (b. 1922). Irish-born television presenter.
- 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.
- 1989 - Vladimir Horowitz dies (b. 1903). Russian pianist.
- 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.
- 1990 - Meir Kahane dies (b. 1932). Israeli rabbi and activist.
- 1991 - Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan.
- 1991 - Robert Maxwell dies at 68. Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (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 - 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 - André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Jean Chrétien; he is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
- 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 - Epic Soundtracks dies (b. 1959). English musician (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal Souls).
- 1997 - Isaiah Berlin dies (b. 1919). Latvian-born historian of ideas.
- 1997 - James Robert Baker dies (b. 1946). American novelist, screenwriter.
- 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 - Bibi Titi Mohammed dies (b. 19216). Tanzanian politician.
- 2000 - Jimmie Davis dies (b. 1899). Singer and politician.
- 2000 - Victor Grinich dies (b. 1924). American businessman.
- 2001 - Barry Horne dies. British animal liberation activist.
- 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.
- 2002 - Billy Guy dies (b. 1936). American singer (The Coasters).
- 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 - John Fowles dies (b. 1926). English writer.
- 2005 - Rod Donald dies (b. 1957). New Zealand environmentalist.
- 2005 - Virginia MacWatters dies (b. 1912). American soprano.
- 2006 - Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982.
- 2006 - Marílson dos Santos, Brazilian athlete, wins New York' Marathon.
- 2006 - Bülent Ecevit dies (b. 1925). Turkish Prime Minister.
- 2007 - China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon.
- 2007 - Nils Liedholm dies (b. 1922). Swedish football midfielder and coach.
- 2009 - US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly kills 13 and wounded 30 at Fort Hood, Texas in the largest mass shooting ever at a US military installation.
- 2009 - Félix Luna dies (b. 1925). Argentine historian.
- R.C. Saints - November 5th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints: St. Domninus, St. Galation, St. Magnus, St. Sylvia, Pope Zachary.
- New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom and the province of Newfoundland & Labrador (Canada): 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 do Cinema Brasileiro.
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