5th
November, on this day
1414 Council
of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens
1492 Christopher
Columbus learns of maize (corn) from the Indians of Cuba
1499 Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier
(Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was written in 1464
by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first Breton dictionary as well as the
first French dictionary.
1530 St.
Felix's Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal
in the Netherlands
1605 Gunpowder
Plot : A Catholic plot led by Robert
Catesby 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
1688 Glorious
Revolution begins: William
of Orange lands at Brixham.
1743 Coordinated scientific observations of the transit
of Mercury were organised by Joseph-Nicolas
Delisle.
1757 Seven
Years' War : Frederick
the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman
Empire in the Battle
of Rossbach.
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.
1781 John
Hanson elected 1st "President
of the US in Congress assembled"
1811 El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence
1831 Nat
Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced
to death in Virginia.
1838 The Federal
Republic of Central America begins to disintegrate when Nicaragua
separated from the federation.
1838 Honduras declares independence of Federal
Republic of Central America
1854 In the Crimean
War combined British and French forces defeat the Russians at
the Battle
of Inkerman
1859 In Britain, the repeal of the law compelling people to celebrate
'Guy Fawkes' Night'
1862 Abraham
Lincoln removes George
B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and
final time.
1862
Indian Wars : In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty
of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang.
1872 The ship, the 'Marie
Celeste' sets sail. Its found floating but completely deserted
on December 5th
1872 In America, Republican Ulysses
Grant is re-elected US President
1872 Susan
B Anthony fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S Grant
1875 Susan B Anthony arrested for attempting to vote
1883 In Sudan, the Madhi defeats an Egyptian force commanded by British
General William
Hicks before attacking the capital, Khart
1895 1st US patent granted for auto (George
B Selden)
1909 Woolworths
opens its first British store in Liverpool
1911 Italy attacks Turkey, takes Tipoli
and Cyrenaica
1911 Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental
airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, NY, Sept 17)
1912 United
States presidential election, 1912 : Woodrow
Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William
Howard Taft. Taft's base is undercut by Progressive Party candidate
(and former Republican) Theodore
Roosevelt, who finishes second, ahead of Taft.
1912 The appointment of a British Board of Film Censors to classify
films as either a 'U' for 'Universal' or 'Not Suitable for Children'
1913 Ludwig
III crowned king of Bavaria deposing Otto
of Bavaria
1914 World War I : Britian and France declare war on Turkey
1914 Britain annexes Cyprus
1916 The Kingdom
of Poland is proclaimed by the Act
of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
1916 The Everett
Massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences
lead to a shoot-out between Industrial
Workers of the World (IWW) union organisers and local police.
1917 October
Revolution : In Tallinn, Esthonia, Communist leader Jaan
Anwelt leads revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government
(As Estonia and Russia are still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent
period references show an October 23 date).
1917 Gen
Pershing and US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
1917 Supreme Court decision (Buchanan
v Warley) strikes down Lousiville KY ordinance requiring blacks
and whites to live in separate areas
1919 Italian-born American actor Rudolph
Valentino, the cinema's first male sex symbol, marries actress
Jean Acker. The marriage lasts less than 6 hours
1927 Britain introduces its first automatic traffic lights in Wolverhampton
in the West Midlands
1935 Parker
Brothers launches game of Monopoly
1937 Adolf
Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring
"living
space" for the German people.
1940 United
States presidential election, 1940 : Franklin
Delano Roosevelt is elected to a third term as President of The
United States of America.
1942 Second
Battle of El Alamein ends - German forces under Erwin Rommel are
forced to retreat during the night
1942 Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarez's final transmission
1946 John
F Kennedy (D-MA) elected to House of Representatives
1950 American General Douglas
McArthur reports Chinese Communist troops are massing in North
Korea t
1953 Paul Searls saws a 32" log in 86.4 seconds
1956 Suez
Crisis : Britain and France land forces in Egypt
1964 US launches Mariner
3 toward Mars; no data returned
1967 The Hither
Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. The survivors
include Bee Gee Robin
Gibb.
1967 ATS-3
launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disk
1968 United
States presidential election, 1968 : Richard
Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for Presidency
1970 The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports
the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
1972 In Sweden, four young musicians form themselves into a group
called 'ABBA'
1983 Byford
Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely
injured.
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 Govan
Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years in prison.
He had been sentenced to life for terrorism and treason.
1987 Iceberg twice the size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
1988 Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage
1990 In New York, Rabbi Meir
Kahane, founder of the militant Jewish Defence League and Israel's
anti-Arab Kach
Party, is assassinated
1991 Millionaire publishing tycoon Robert
Maxwell is found dead at sea – several hours after mysteriously
disappearing from his yacht off the Canary Islands
1996 United
States presidential election, 1996 : US President Bill
Clinton beats Bob
Dole to win a second term in office
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.
2007 China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e
1 goes into orbit around the Moon.
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Birthdates which
occurred on November 5th:
1818 Benjamin F
Butler Union general/presidential candidate (anti-monopoly)
1849 Rui Barbosa Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties
1855 Eugene V Debs labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
1857 Ida Tarbell muckraker (Standard Oil was very unhappy)
1876 Raymond Duchamp-Villon cubist sculptor (Head of Baudeaire)
1884 James Elroy Flecker English poet/dramatist (Hassan)
1885 Will Durant writer/historian (Story of Civilization)
1887 Paul Wittgenstein Vienna Austria, left hand specialist pianist
1891 Earle (Greasy) Neale NFL coach (Philadelphia Eagles)
1894 Eugen Zador Bataszek, Hungary, Hungarian/American composer (Diana)
19-- Brian Wheat rock bassist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
19-- Jan Shutan Los Angeles CA, actress (Ruth-Sons & Daughters)
1905 Joel McCrea South Pasadena CA, actor (Marshal-Wichita Town)
1911 Roy Rogers Cincinnati Ohio, cowboy (Happy Trails, Roy Rogers
Show)
1912 Natalie Schaeffer Rumson NJ, actress (Lovey Howell-Gilligan's
Island)
1913 John McGiver NYC, actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show)
1913 Vivien Leigh (Gone With Wind) Frankly my dear, I don't give a
damn
1915 Moe Biller NYC, labor union officer (AFL-CIO, Postal Workers)
1919 Myron Floren Webster San Diego CA, accordionist (Lawrence Welk
Show)
1927 Robert Abernethy Geneva Switzerland, Newscaster (NBC News Encore)
1930 Herb Edelman Brooklyn NY, actor (Good Guys, Strike Force, 9 to
5)
1931 Ike Turner AKA Mr Tina Turner!, singer (A Fool in Love)
1932 Arthur L Liman NYC, trial lawyer (Oliver North)
1935 Dick Davalos Bronx, actor (Jeff-The Americans)
1938 Chris Robinson Florida, actor (Stanley, General Hospital, Another
World)
1941 Patricia Harty Wash DC, actress (Occasional Wife, Blondie)
1942 Art Garfunkel NYC, singer/actor (Sounds of Silence, Carnal Knowledge)
1942 Elke Sommer Berlin Germany, actress (Oscar, 10 Little Indians)
1942 Richie Scheinblum Bronx-born outfielder for the Kansas City Royals
(Sporting News All Star Right fielder 1972 American League)
1943 Sam Shepard US, actor/playwright (Frances, Crimes of the Heart)
1946 Patricia K Kuhl speech & hearing scientist
1947 Oleg Antropov USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 Peter Noone rocker (Herman-Herman's Hermits-Silhouettes)
1951 Cindy Brooks Gettysburg PA, playmate (April, 1985)
1952 Bill Walton NBA center (Portland Trail Blazers, Boston Celtics)
1957 Jon-Erik Hexum Tenafly NJ, actor (Voyager, Cover-up)
1959 Bryan Adams Vancouver BC Canada, singer (Heaven)
1959 Rob Fisher rocker (Climie Fisher-Love Changes)
1963 Andrea McArdle Philadelphia PA, actress (Annie); "Sun Will
Come Out Tommorrow"
1963 Tatum O'Neal Los Angeles CA, Mrs John MacEnroe (Paper Moon, Little
Darlings)
1969 Jennifer Guthrie Willimantic CT, actress (Dawn-General Hospital)
1971 Corin "Corky" Nemec Little Rock AR, actor (Tucker,
Parker Lewis)
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Deaths which occurred on November 5th:
1956 Art Tatum black pianist, dies at 46 in Los Angeles
1960 Ward Bond actor, dies at 55
1969 Lloyd Corrigan actor (Prof McKillup-Hank), dies at 69
1974 Stafford Repp actor (Chief O'Hara-Batman), dies at 56
1977 Guy Lombardo orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne), dies in Houston
at 75
1979 Al Capp cartoonist (Lil' Abner), dies at 70
1982 Jacques Tati actor/director, dies of pulmonary embolism
1989 Barry Sadler singer (Green Berets), dies at 49 in Murfreesboro
Tn
1989 Vladamir Horowitz pianist, dies at 85
1991 Fred MacMurray actor (My Three Sons), dies at 84
1991 Robert Maxwell Billionaire publisher (NY Daily News), dies at
68
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