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Today in History ~ November 5
Guy Fawkes Day, celebrated in England.
Events1228 - Zen Buddhist "Gateless Gate" Published
1414 - Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens
1492 - Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from Indians of Cuba
1556 - Emperor Akbar Defeated Hindu Army at Panipat
1605 - The "Gunpowder Plot" failed as Guy Fawkes was seized before he and his fellow Catholic conspirators failed in their plot to blow up the English Parliament and with it, King James I [H]
1639 - 1st post office in the colonies opens in Massachusetts
1733 - German-born publisher John Peter Zenger began printing The New York Weekly Journal in opposition to the British colonial administration.
1757 - Battle at Rossbach (7 year war/French & Indian War)
1781 - John Hanson elected 1st "President of the United States in Congress assembled" (8 years before Washington was elected).
1789 - French National Assembly declares all citizens equal under law
1811 - El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence
1846 - Robert Schumann's 2nd Symphony in C, premieres
1854 - Crimean War: British & French defeat Russian force of 50,000
1862 - 300 Santee Sioux sentenced to hang in Minnesota [H]
1862 - Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac
1872 - Susan B Anthony fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S Grant
1872 - Ulysses S Grant re-elected US president
1882 - Bedrich Smetana's "Ma Vlast," premieres
1894 - Richard Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegel," premieres
1895 - George Selden patents 1st gasoline-driven car
1895 - King Edward VII says "We are all Socialists nowadays"
1895 - US state Utah accepts female suffrage
1898 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Fuhrmann Henschel," premieres in Berlin
1911 - Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tripoli & Cyrenaica. First use of a plane dropping bombs.
1911 - Calbraith P. Rodgers arrived in Pasadena, Calif., completing the first transcontinental airplane trip in 49 days.
1912 - Arizona, Kansas & Wisconsin vote for female suffrage
1912 - Bulgarian troops in Constantinople blockade drinking water
1912 - Woodrow Wilson (D) was elected president, defeating Progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt and incumbent Republican William Howard Taft.
1914 - Great Britain, France & Russia declares war on Turkey
1917 - Gen Pershing and US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
1917 - Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Louisville Ky. ordinance requiring blacks & whites to live in separate areas
1925 - Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties
1930 - Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Arrowsmith"
1930 -The first commercial television broadcast was aired.
1932 - Mussolini frees 16,000 criminals
1933 - Spanish Basques vote for autonomy
1935 - Maryland Court of Appeals orders U of M to admit (black) Donald Murray
1935 - Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly
1936 - French writer Andre Gide criticizes Soviet regime
1937 - Hitler informs his military advisors of his intentions of going to war
1940 - Walter Johnson, won 416 games for Wash Senators, loses Maryland congressional race (R)
1940 - President Franklin Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office as he defeated Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie.
1941 - Japanese marine staff officers Suzuki/Maejima leave Pearl Harbor
1942 - Nazi raid on Greek Jews in Paris
1943 - Vatican bombed
1944 - British official Lord Moyne was assassinated in Cairo, Egypt, by the Zionist Stern gang.
1946 - John F Kennedy (D-Mass) elected to House of Representatives
1946 - Republicans captured control of both the Senate and the House in midterm elections.
1953 - Terence Rattigan's "Sleeping Prince," premieres in London
1955 - New Vienna Opera house opens
1956 - Britain & France land forces in Egypt
1956 - Israel liberates Sharm-el-Sheikh, reopening Gulf of Aqaba
1961 - India's premier Nehru arrives in NY
1967 - US troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam
1968 - Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace.
1969 - Bobby Seale, the founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, is sentenced to four years in prison on sixteen counts of contempt of court (Chicago Eight)
1971 - Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping
1974 - Ella T. Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut, the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.
1978 - Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
1978 - Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran
1979 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares US "The Great Satan"
1987 - Goban Mbeki, an early leader of the African National Congress, was released from Robben Island prison after 24 years
1987 - Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
1987 - Stephen Sondheim's/James Lapine's musical "Into the Stars," premieres
1990 - An Egyptian-born gunman, El Sayyed Nosair, apparently acting alone, assassinated Meir Kahane, the U.S. native who founded the militant Jewish Defense League and was thrown out of Israel's parliament for his racist anti-Arab views. [H]
1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court let stand an order requiring the U.S. Army to permit homosexuals to re-enlist.
1991 - Kiichi Miyazawa was formally appointed premier of Japan, succeeding Toshiki Kaifu.
1991 - The body of British media mogul Robert Maxwell was found floating in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands.
1991 - Nearly 7,000 people were killed in floods in the Philippines.
1992 - Former U.S. world chess champion Bobby Fischer triumphed in his $5 million rematch against Russian arch-rival Boris Spassky. The match in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, was staged in defiance of U.N. sanctions against the Yugoslav federation.
1992 - Canada's Inuit people voted to accept a land claim agreement
1994 - Space probe Ulyssus completes 1st passage behind the Sun
1994 - Former President Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer's disease.
1996 - Voters returned President Clinton to the White House for a second term but kept Congress in Republican control.
1996 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin underwent successful heart bypass surgery.
1997 - 2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns, he is named AL Manager of Year
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.
2002 - Republicans seized control of the U.S. Senate and retained their hold on the House, giving President George W. Bush a historic victory in mid-term elections that traditionally go against the incumbent president.
2002 - The Galileo space probe, blasted by harsh radiation, shut down as it made its closest approach ever to Jupiter, leaving scientists wondering what data, if any, the probe would be able to transmit to tell them about Jupiter's inner moon Amalthea and the planet's magnetosphere.
Birthdays Today
1494 - Hans Sachs, cobbler/poet/composer, also the prototype for Wagner's "Die Meistersinger," Nuremberg
1549 - Philippe du Plessis, France, author
1666 - Attilio Ariosti, composer
1818 - Benjamin Franklin ("Beast") Butler, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
1855 - Eugene V Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
1857 - Ida Tarbell, muckraker
1876 - Raymond Duchamp-Villon, cubist sculptor (Head of Baudeaire)
1884 - James Elroy Flecker, English poet/dramatist (Hassan)
1885 - Will Durant (author: The Story of Philosophy, The Story of Civilization [w/wife, Ariel)
1887 - Oscar Bossaert, Belgium, chocolate manufacturer/min of Middenstand
1887 - Paul Wittgenstein, Vienna Austria, left hand specialist pianist
1891 - Alfred 'Greasy' Neale (Football Hall of Famer: created the 5-man defensive line)
1893 - Raymond Loewy (inventor, engineer, industrial designing: 'father of streamlining': US Postal Service logo, Air Force One and many other products such as pens, appliances, cars and trains)
1895 - Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer
1902 - Strom Thurmond, (Sen-R-SC, 1955- )
1905 - Joel McCrea (actor: Ride the High Country, The Oklahoman, Four Faces West, Buffalo Bill, Barbary Coast, Wichita Town)
1912 - Natalie Schafer (actress: Gilligan's Island, The Survivors, Forever Darling, The Time of Your Life)
1912 - Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye), Cincinnati Ohio,('King of the Cowboys': actor: over 85 westerns, The Roy Rogers Show, The Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show; singer: Happy Trails to You)
1913 - John McGiver (actor: Midnight Cowboy, The Manchurian Candidate, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Patty Duke Show, Mr. Terrific, Many Happy Returns, The Jimmy Stewart Show)
1913 - Vivien Leigh (Hartley) (Academy Award-winning actress: Gone with the Wind [1939], A Streetcar Named Desire [1951]; Ship of Fools, Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Anna Karenina)
1921 - Gyorgy Cziffra, Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt)
1931 - Ike Turner (musician: piano, singer: duo: Ike & Tina Turner Revue: It's Gonna Work Out Fine, Poor Fool, Tra La La La, I Idolize You, Proud Mary; owner: recording studio)
1936 - Billy Sherrill (songwriter, musician: saxophone: Tipsy; record producer: Almost Persuaded: VP/Executive Producer: CBS Nashville)
1941 - Barry Sadler (songwriter, singer: Ballad of the Green Berets)
1941 - Paul Simon (songwriter, singer, musician: guitar: duo: Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water, Homeward Bound, I Am a Rock, Mrs. Robinson, Scarborough Fair, The Sounds of Silence, Cecilia; solo: Mother and Child Reunion, Me and Julio, Kodachrome, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, Slip Slidin' Away; LP: Graceland; Wonderful World [w/Art Garfunkel, James Taylor]; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer; in film: Annie Hall)
1942 - Art Garfunkel, NYC, singer/actor (Sounds of Silence, Carnal Knowledge)
1942 - Elke Sommer (Schletz) (actress: A Shot in the Dark, The Prize, The Oscar, Prisoner of Zenda; Miss Italy [1959])
1943 - Sam Shepard (Sam Shepard Rogers) (actor: Days of Heaven, The Pelican Brief, The Right Stuff, Steel Magnolias, Voyager; playwright: Silent Tongue, Far North, Fool for Love, Zabriskie Point, Paris Texas)
1946 - Gram Parsons (Cecil Connor) (singer: group: The Byrds: LP: Sweetheart of the Rodeo; The Flying Burrito Brothers: LP: The Gilded Palace of Sin, Burrito Deluxe; songwriter: She, How Much I've Lied, The New Soft Shoe, Grievous Angel, Hickory Wind, Las Vegas, In My Hour of Darkness)
1947 - Peter 'Herman' Noone (singer: musician: guitar, piano: group: Herman's Hermits: Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter, I'm Henry VIII, I Am; solo: Oh You Pretty Thing; actor: The Pirates of Penzance)
1952 - Bill Walton (Basketball Hall of Famer: UCLA: NCAA championship [1972, 1973]: MVP, Sullivan Award [1973]; Portland Trail Blazers: NBA Championship title [1977], MVP [1978]; San Diego Clippers; Boston Celtics: 1986 NBA championship)
1958 - Jon-Erik Hexum (actor: Voyagers, Cover Up)
1959 - Bryan Adam (singer: Heaven, Summer of '69; songwriter: Everything I Do; songwriter: Tears are Not Enough)
1959 - Lloyd Modeby (baseball)
1963 - Tatum O'Neal (Academy Award-winning actress: Paper Moon [1973]; Bad News Bears, Little Darlings)
Famous deaths
1370 - Kazimierz III ("The Great"), king of Poland (1333-70), dies at 61
1603 - Irini Fedorovna, Russian daughter of Czar Boris Godunov, dies
1803 - Chalderon de Laclos, writer, dies
1879 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (speed of light), dies at 48
1942 - George M Cohan, composer/actor/dancer, dies at 64 (left his regards to Broadway)
1955 - Maurice Utrillo, French painter (Cathedral St-Denis), dies at 71
1960 - Mack Sennett, director/producer (Keystone Cops), dies
1977 - Guy Lombardo, orch leader (Auld Lang Syne), dies in Houston at 75
1979 - Al Capp, US cartoonist (Li'l Abner), dies at 70
1989 - Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian/US pianist, dies at 85
1989 -, Singer-songwriter Barry Sadler in Murfreesboro, Tenn., at age 49.
1990 - Meir Kahane, the US rabbi who founded the militant Jewish Defense League and was thrown out of Israel's parliament for his racist anti-Arab views -- gunned down by a terrorist (Egyptian native El Sayyed Nosair was convicted of the slaying in federal court.)
1991 - Fred MacMurray, actor (My Three Sons), dies of pneumonia at 83
1991 - Robert Maxwell, Billionaire publisher (NY Daily News), dies at sea at 68
1994 - McHenry Boatwright, signer, dies at 66
2000 - Jimmie Davis, Louisiana's "singing governor," died in Baton Rouge; he was believed to be 101.
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