November 5 in recent years
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2008 (Wednesday)
2007 (Monday)
2006 (Sunday)
2005 (Saturday)
2004 (Friday)
2003 (Wednesday)
2002 (Tuesday)
2001 (Monday)
2000 (Sunday)
November 5 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 55 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events [ ]
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
1556 - Second Battle of Panipat : Fifty miles north of Delhi , a Mughal Army defeats Hindu forces of General Hemu to ensure Akbar the throne of India . In the battle, Hemu became unconscious when an arrow stuck into his right eye. He was brought as captive to Akbar and was hanged.
1605 - Gunpowder Plot : A 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 .
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 .
1831 - Nat Turner , American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death.
1838 - The Federal Republic of Central America begins to disintegrate when Nicaragua separated from the federation.
1854 - The Battle of Inkerman is fought during the Crimean War .
1862 - American Civil War : Abraham Lincoln removes George B. 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 and Cyrenaica .
1913 - The insane king Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III .
1913 - United Kingdom annexes Cyprus , and together with France declares war on the Ottoman Empire .
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 as political differences lead to a shoot-out between IWW organizers and local police.
1917 - October Revolution : In Tallinn , Esthonia , Communist leader Jaan Anwelt leads 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 - St. Tikhon of Moscow is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church .
1937 - World War II : Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.
1940 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected to a third term as President of The United States of America .
1942 - The World War II Second Battle of El Alamein is won by the British in El Alamein , Egypt .
1945 - Colombia joins the United Nations .
1962 - A mining accident kills 21 miners at the government-owned Kings Bay Coal Company on Svalbard , leading the Norwegian 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).
1967 - The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. The survivors include Bee Gee Robin Gibb .
1970 - Vietnam War : The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini declares the USA to be "the great Satan".
1983 - Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
1986 - USS Rentz , USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf 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.
1990 - Rabbi Meir Kahane , founder of the far-right Kach movement , is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
1994 - Forty-five year old George Foreman becomes boxing 's oldest heavyweight champion when he knocks out Michael Moorer .
1995 - André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Jean Chrétien ; he is thwarted when the Prime Minister 's wife locks the door.
1996 - President of Pakistan Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan .
2000 - Emperor Haile Selassie I is given an Imperial funeral by the Ethiopian Orthodox church
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 - 2007 Writers Guild of America strike begins
Births [ ]
1271 - Mahmud Ghazan , Mongol ruler (d. 1304 )
1494 - Hans Sachs , German mastersinger (d. 1576 )
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 , English duelist (d. 1798 )
1742 - Richard Cosway , English artist (d. 1821 )
1835 - Moritz Szeps , Austrian journalist (d. 1902 )
1846 - Duncan Gordon Boyes , English recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869 )
1850 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox , American author and poet (d. 1919 )
1851 - Charles Dupuy , French prime minister (d. 1923 )
1854 - Paul Sabatier , French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941 )
1854 - Alphonse Desjardins , Québécois founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (d. 1920 )
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 )
1873 - Teddy Flack , Australian athlete, double Olympic gold medallist in 1896. (d. 1935 )
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 , American politician (d. 1972 )
1900 - Natalie Schafer , American actress (d. 1991 )
1904 - Cooney Weiland , Canadian hockey player (d. 1985 )
1905 - Joel McCrea , American actor (d. 1990 )
1906 - Fred Lawrence Whipple , American astronomer (d. 2004 )
1906 - Endre Kabos , Hungarian Olympic champion fencer (d. 1944 ))
1911 - Roy Rogers , American actor (d. 1998 )
1913 - Vivien Leigh , English actress (d. 1967 )
1914 - Alton Tobey , American artist (d. 2005 )
1917 - Jacqueline Auriol , French aviatrix (d. 2000 )
1917 - Banarsi Das Gupta , Indian former Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007 )
1919 - Hasan Askari , Pakistani philosopher (d. 1978 )
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
1934 - Victor Argo , American actor (d. 2004 )
1935 - Lester Piggott , British jockey
1936 - Michael Dertouzos , Greek internet pioneer, Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (d. 2001 )
1937 - Harris Yulin , American actor
1938 - Joe Dassin , French-speaking American singer (d. 1980 )
1938 - César Luis Menotti , Argentine footballer
1940 - Elke Sommer , German actress
1941 - Art Garfunkel , American musician
1943 - Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell) , German-born American TV chef (d. 2007 )
1943 - Sam Shepard , American playwright and actor
1945 - Peter Pace , Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1946 - Herman Brood , Dutch musician and artist (d. 2001 )
1946 - Gram Parsons , American musician (d. 1973 )
1947 - Peter Noone , English musician (Herman's Hermits )
1948 - Mel Ab-Owain , Welsh politician
1948 - Peter Hammill , British musician
1948 - Hridayananda dasa Goswami , ISKCON guru
1948 - Bernard-Henri Lévy , French public intellectual
1948 - William Daniel Phillips , American physicist, Nobel laureate
1949 - Armin Shimerman , American actor
1949 - Jimmie Spheeris , American singer-songwriter (d. 1984 )
1950 - Thorbjørn Jagland , former Norwegian prime minister
1952 - Bill Walton , American basketball player and commentator
1952 - Oleg Blokhin , Ukrainian footballer
1953 - Joyce Maynard , American writer
1955 - Karan Thapar , Foremost Indian Journalist, Political Analyst & Commentator
1955 - Bernard Chazelle , French computer scientist
1955 - Nestor Serrano , American actor
1957 - Jon-Erik Hexum , American actor (d. 1984 )
1958 - Robert Patrick , American actor
1959 - Bryan Adams , Canadian musician
1960 - Tilda Swinton , English actress
1961 - Gina Mastrogiacomo , American actress (d. 2001 )
1961 - David Bryson , American guitarist and vocalist (Counting Crows )
1962 - Abédi Pelé , Ghanaian footballer
1963 - Andrea McArdle , American actress
1963 - Tatum O'Neal , American actress
1965 - Famke Janssen , Dutch model and actress
1965 - Kubrat , titular Bulgarian royal family
1968 - Sam Rockwell , American film actor
1968 - Judy Reyes , Dominican American actress
1968 - Aitana Sánchez-Gijón , Spanish actress
1968 - Chris Folino , American film director
1970 - Javy Lopez , baseball player
1970 - Tamzin Outhwaite , English actress
1971 - Dana Jacobson , ESPN's First Take hostess
1971 - Corin Nemec , American actor
1971 - Jonny Greenwood , guitarist (Radiohead )
1971 - Sergei Berezin , National Hockey League player
1971 - Edmond Leung , Hong Kong singer
1973 - Johnny Damon , American baseball player
1973 - Alexei Yashin , Russian ice hockey player
1973 - Daniella Westbrook , English actress
1974 - Angela Gossow , German vocalist (Arch Enemy )
1974 - Dado Pršo , Croatian footballer
1974 - Jerry Stackhouse , American basketball player
1974 - Ryan Adams , American musician
1977 - Brittney Skye , American porn star
1977 - Richard Wright , English footballer
1980 - Christoph Metzelder , German footballer
1980 - Jaime Camara , Brazilian racing driver
1983 - Mike Hanke , German footballer
1985 - Kate DeAraugo , Australian Idol 2005
1985 - Tanaka Koki , Japanese idol (member of KAT-TUN )
1986 - BoA , Korean singer
1986 - Kasper Schmeichel , Danish footballer
Deaths [ ]
1370 - Casimir III the Great king of Poland
1515 - Mariotto Albertinelli , Italian painter (b. 1474 )
1559 - Kano Motonobu , Japanese painter (b. 1476 )
1660 - Lucy Hay , English socialite (b. 1599 )
1660 - Alexandre de Rhodes , French Jesuit missionary (b. 1591 )
1701 - Charles Gerard , French-born English politician (bc. 1659 )
1714 - Bernardino Ramazzini , Italian physician (b. 1633 )
1752 - Carl Andreas Duker , German classical scholar (b. 1670 )
1758 - Hans Egede , Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686 )
1828 - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia , second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (b. 1759 )
1836 - Karel Hynek Mácha , Czech poet (b. 1810 )
1879 - James Clerk Maxwell , Scottish physicist (b. 1831 )
1923 - Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen , French novelist (b. 1880 )
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 - Johnny Horton , country music singer (b.1925 )
1960 - Mack Sennett , Canadian producer and director (b. 1880 )
1964 - Lansdale Sasscer , U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (b. 1893 )
1964 - Buddy Cole , American jazz pianist and orchestra leader (b. 1916 )
1971 - Sam Jones , baseball player (b. 1925 )
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 - Annette Kellerman , Australian swimmer (b. 1887 )
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 - Edward Hallett Carr , historian
1982 - Jacques Tati , French actor and director (b. 1908 )
1985 - Spencer W. Kimball , twelfth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895 )
1985 - Arnold Chikobava , Georgian linguist (b. 1898 )
1986 - Claude Jutra , Québécois actor and film director (b. 1930 )
1986 - Bobby Nunn , American singer (The Coasters ) (b. 1925 )
1989 - Vladimir Horowitz , Russian pianist (b. 1903 )
1990 - Meir Kahane , Israeli rabbi and activist (b. 1932 )
1991 - Fred MacMurray , American actor (b. 1908 )
1991 - Robert Maxwell , Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (b. 1923 )
1992 - Arpad Elo , American physicist and chess player (b. 1903 )
1996 - Eddie Harris , American saxophonist (b. 1934 )
1997 - James Robert Baker , American novelist, screenwriter (b. 1946 )
1997 - Isaiah Berlin , Latvian-born historian of ideas (b. 1909 )
1997 - Epic Soundtracks , English musician (Swell Maps , Crime and the City Solution , These Immortal Souls ) (b. 1959 )
2000 - Victor Grinich , American businessman (b. 1924 )
2000 - Bibi Titi Mohammed , Tanzanian politician (b.1926 )
2000 - Jimmie Davis , singer and politician (b. 1899 )
2001 - Roy Boulting , English film director and producer (b. 1913 )
2001 - Barry Horne , a British animal liberation activist.
2002 - Billy Guy , American singer (The Coasters ) (b. 1936 )
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 - Virginia MacWatters , American soprano (b. 1912 )
2006 - Bülent Ecevit , four term Turkish Prime Minister (b. 1925 )
2007 - Nils Liedholm , Swedish football midfielder and coach (b. 1922 )
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120 Familypedia people were born on November 5
133 Familypedia people died on November 5
100 Familypedia people were first married on November 5