Notable Historical Events on November 5th
November 5th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1228 |
Wu MeKuan, a collection of 48 Zen koans, compiled in China |
1414 |
Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens |
1492 |
Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from 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. |
1500 |
-6th Nov astronomer Copernicus observes a lunar eclipse in Rome |
1530 |
St Felix Flood ravages Dutch coast and destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands |
1556 |
Akbar (14) succeeds his father Humajun as Sultan of Delhi |
1556 |
Battle at Panipat: Mogollegers beat hindu leader Hemu |
1605 |
Gunpowder Plot; attempt to blow up King James I while he opened Parliament. Plot discovered and Guy Fawkes caught and tortured. He and seven others were later executed |
1630 |
Spain & England sign peace treaty |
1639 |
First post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts |
1678 |
Brandenburgse troops occupy Greifswald in Sweden |
1725 |
Spain & Austria sign secret treaty |
1743 |
Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury were organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle. |
1757 |
Battle at Rossbach (7 year war/French & Indian War) |
1773 |
John Hancock is elected as moderator at a Boston town meeting that resolves that anyone who supports the Tea Act is an "Enemy to America" |
1780 |
French-American force under Colonel LaBalme is defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle. |
1781 |
John Hanson elected first "President of US in Congress assembled" |
1789 |
Fleeing slaves under Bonni attack military post on Suriname |
1789 |
French National Meeting declares all citizens equal under law |
1811 |
El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence |
1838 |
Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation |
1846 |
Robert Schumann's 2nd Symphony in C premieres |
1854 |
Crimean War: British & French defeat Russian force of 50,000 at Inkerman |
1862 |
Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac |
1862 |
Battle at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia: 51 casualties |
1872 |
American women's right to vote advocate Susan B. Anthony votes for Ulysses S. Grant |
1872 |
Ulysses S. Grant re-elected US President |
1873 |
Due to the fallout from the Pacific Scandal, John A. Macdonald resigns as Prime Minister of Canada |
1876 |
Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Nyangwe |
1881 |
French government-Ferry resigns |
1881 |
1,600 police and volunteers attack Māori settlement at Parihaka in western Taranaki which had become the symbol of protest against the confiscation of Māori land, New Zealand |
1882 |
Bedrich Smetana's "Ma Vlast" premieres |
1883 |
Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi's army destroys Egyptian army |
1883 |
Musical "Cordelia's Aspirations" premieres in NYC |
1887 |
Ottawa College (ORFU) defeats Montreal Football Club (QRFU) 10-5 to win the Dominion championship |
1889 |
Louisa Woosley first women to be ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian denomination (US Cumberland Presbyterian Church). |
1894 |
Frederick Lugards expedition reaches Nikki |
1894 |
Richard Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegels" premieres |
1895 |
1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden) for gasoline driven car |
1895 |
Edward, Prince of Wales, says "We are all Socialists nowadays" |
1895 |
US state Utah accepts female suffrage |
1898 |
Gerhart Hauptmann's "Fuhrmann Henschel" premieres in Berlin |
1900 |
Under US military control since the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898, Cuba now calls its own constitutional convention |
1911 |
Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tripoli & Cyrenaica |
1911 |
Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, NY, Sept 17) |
1912 |
Arizona, Kansas & Wisconsin vote for female suffrage |
1912 |
Bulgarian troops in Constantinople blockade drinking water |
1912 |
Woodrow Wilson (D) defeats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) & President Taft (R) |
1913 |
Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria |
1914 |
Britain declares war on Turkey and annexes Cyprus, occupied since 1878; the immediate reason is to keep it from being taken by Turkey |
1916 |
Emperors Wilhelm II (Germany) and Franz Jozef I (Austria-Hungary) establish the kingdom of Poland |
1916 |
Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage |
1916 |
The Everett Massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between IWW organizers and local police. |
1917 |
Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time |
1917 |
Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Lousiville, Kenticky, ordinance requiring blacks & whites to live in separate areas |
1919 |
Ir à Steringa Idzerda begins hosting "soirée-musical" on Dutch radio |
1922 |
Demonstration for a Dutch University in Ghent |
1925 |
Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties |
1927 |
10th PGA Championship: Water Hagen at Cedar Crest CC Dallas |
1927 |
Walter Hagen beats Joe Turnesa for 4th consecutive PGA title |
1930 |
Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt" |
1930 |
3rd Academy Awards - "All Quiet on the Western Front", George Arliss & Norma Shearer win |
1932 |
Benito Mussolini frees 16,000 convicts |
1933 |
Chicago Bears 30 game unbeaten streak ends to Patriots (10-0) |
1933 |
Spanish Basques vote for autonomy |
1935 |
Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of Maryland to admit Donald Murray, a black man |
1935 |
Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly |
1936 |
French writer Andre Gide criticizes Soviet regime |
1937 |
Hitler informs his military leaders in a secret meeting of his intentions of going to war |
1938 |
Ottawa Roughriders score on 5-man, 4-lateral, 65-yard punt return |
1938 |
Rugers beats Princeton 1st time in 60 yrs as Rutgers Stad dedicated |
1940 |
Dutch submarine departs Dundee |
1940 |
Pres FDR (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R) |
1940 |
Walter Johnson, won 416 games for Wash Senators, loses Maryland congressional race (R) |
1941 |
Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima leave Pearl Harbor |
1942 |
Nazi raid on Greek Jews in Paris |
1942 |
Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarez's final transmission |
1943 |
-6] Vatican bombed |
1944 |
Allied troops reach Zoutelande Walcheren |
1944 |
Canadian & British troops liberate Dinteloord |
1944 |
German troops blow-up Heusden North Brabant city hall, 134 die |
1945 |
Colombia joins the United Nations. |
1946 |
John F Kennedy (Democrat, Massachusetts) elected to US House of Representatives |
1950 |
Cleveland Browns' Tommy James intercepts 3 passes, club record |
1950 |
Philippines president Quirino ends emergency crisis |
1951 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1953 |
Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke |
1953 |
Paul Searls saws a 32" log in 86.4 seconds |
1953 |
Terence Rattigan's "Sleeping Prince" premieres in London |
1955 |
Mont Canadien Jean Beliveau scores 2nd fastest hat trick (44 seconds) |
1955 |
New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria) |
1955 |
Date returned to in "Back to the Future" by Marty McFly |
1956 |
Britain & France land forces in Egypt in reaction to seizure of Suez Canal |
1956 |
Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized |
1956 |
Israel liberates Sharm-el-Sheikh, reopening Gulf of Aqaba |
1956 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Datis nuperrime |
1956 |
The Nat King Cole Show debuts on NBC, the first variety program to be hosted by an African-American |
1957 |
Mrs Nellie McGrail wins $574,658 on a 2½ cent soccer pool ticket |
1958 |
"Maria Golovin" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 performances |
1958 |
KGLD (now KSNG) TV channel 11 in Garden City, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast |
1959 |
AFL announced with 8 teams |
1961 |
India's premier Nehru arrives in NY |
1961 |
St Louis Cards Bill Stacy, returns 2 interceptions for TDs vs Dallas |
1963 |
US VP Lyndon B. Johnson visits Netherlands |
1964 |
US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned |
1966 |
Brigham Young QB Virgil Carter sets NCAA record of 599 yards gained |
1966 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1967 |
ATS-3 launched by US to take first pictures of full Earth disc |
1967 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open |
1967 |
New Orleans Saints 1st NFL victory, beat Philadelphia Eagles 31-24 |
1967 |
US troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam |
1967 |
Yemen president Sallal flees |
1967 |
The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. The survivors include Bee Gee Robin Gibb. |
1968 |
1st AL pitcher to win MVP, Denny McLain (wins unanimously) |
1968 |
Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for presidency |
1971 |
Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping |
1971 |
NBA's LA Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak |
1972 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic |
1972 |
Vice-President of Sinn Féin Maire Drumm is arrested in the Republic of Ireland |
1973 |
BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service |
1973 |
Arab producers announce 25 percent cut in oil production |
1974 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes Michelangelo songs |
1974 |
Ella Grasso (Ct) elected first woman US governor not related to previous governor |
1974 |
Walter E Washington, becomes first elected mayor of Wash DC |
1975 |
British government sends troops to Belize |
1975 |
Sao Tome & Principe adopts constitution |
1976 |
Balt Jim Palmer wins AL Cy Young Award |
1976 |
New AL franchises in Seattle & Toronto fill up their rosters |
1976 |
Pirates trade Manny Sanguillen & $100,000 to A's for mgr Chuck Tanner |
1976 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1977 |
NCAA passing record set at 571 yards (Marc Wilson, Brigham Young) |
1978 |
Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi |
1978 |
Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran |
1978 |
Oakland Raider's John Madden becomes 13th coach to win 100 NFL games |
1979 |
Iran government of Bazargan resigns |
1979 |
Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares US "The Great Satan" |
1981 |
Charles Fuller's "Soldier's Play" premieres in NYC |
1981 |
Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficing, conspiracy, & possession of cocaine |
1982 |
Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record) |
1982 |
George Harrison releases "Gone Troppo" album |
1983 |
NY Rangers & Quebec Nordiques both score in 1st 14 secs of 3rd period |
1983 |
Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moves overland to Dryden |
1985 |
"News" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 4 performances |
1987 |
"Into the Woods" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 764 performances |
1987 |
France performs nuclear test |
1987 |
Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic |
1987 |
South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed |
1987 |
Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine's musical "Into the Stars," premieres |
1987 |
Supreme Court nominee Douglas H Ginsburg admitted using marijuana |
1988 |
1st NBA game at Bradley Center, Milw Bucks lose to Atlnata Hawks 94-107 |
1988 |
1st NBA game at Miami Arena, Miami Heat loss to LA Clippers, 111-91 |
1988 |
1st NBA game at Palace of Auburn Hills, Pistons beat Hornets 94-85 |
1988 |
Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage |
1988 |
France performs nuclear test |
1988 |
Gulch wins Breeder's Cup |
1988 |
Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo (Game 1 of 7) |
1988 |
Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Alysheba, Gt Communicator, Gulch, Is It True, Miesque, Open Mind, Personal Ensign at Churchill Downs |
1989 |
"Threepenny Opera" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 perfs |
1989 |
19th NYC Women's Marathon won by Ingrid Kristiansen in 2:25:30 |
1989 |
20th NYC Marathon won by Juma Ikangaa in 2:08:01 |
1989 |
Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record of 16 cons pass completions |
1989 |
Elaine Crosby wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
1989 |
US plays El Salvador in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup |
1990 |
Reports of increasing Saudi petroleum production and lower world demand |
1991 |
Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan |
1991 |
Richard J Kerr ends term as acting director of CIA |
1992 |
"Show Off" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances |
1992 |
Bobby Fisher beats Boris Spassky to with Chess title in Belgrade |
1993 |
1st NBA game in Alamodome, San Antonio Spurs beat Warriors 91-85 |
1994 |
Space probe Ulyssus completes 1st passage behind the Sun |
1994 |
Tony Rominger bicycles world record for distance covered in one hour for second time (55.291 km) |
1994 |
Yak-40 accident in north of Peru, 8 killed |
1994 |
Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Barathea, Cherokee Run, Concern, Flanders, One Dreamer, Tikkanen, Timber Country |
1994 |
George Foreman (45) KOs Michael Moorer to win boxing HW championship |
1995 |
STS 73 (Columbia 18), lands |
1995 |
Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup Golf Tournament |
1995 |
1st NBA game at General Motors Place, Vancouver Grizzlies beat Minn Timberwolves 100-98 in OT |
1995 |
André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien; he is thwarted when the PM's wife locks the door. |
1996 |
Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is the unanimous choice as AL Rookie of |
1997 |
2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns he is named AL Manager of Year |
1997 |
French court orders producer Jacques Charrier, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, to pay the former screen star $8,300 in damages |
2000 |
Emperor Haile Selassie I is given an Imperial funeral by the Ethiopian Orthodox church |
2003 |
37th Country Music Association Award: Alan Jackson & Martina McBride wins |
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. |
2009 |
US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan (US Army Medical Corps) killed 13 and wounded 43 at Fort Hood, Texas in the largest mass shooting ever at a US military installation. |
2012 |
50 Syrian military personnel are killed by a suicide car bomb in Hama |
2012 |
Widespread flooding in Nigeria kills 363 people and displaces 2.1 million |
2013 |
4 people are killed after a 4-story building under construction collapses in Lagos, Nigeria |
2014 |
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key rules out sending troops to fight against Islamic State, but claims there are 40 NZers on 'terror watchlist' |
2015 |
World's first figure-8 ferris wheel opens in Macau |
2015 |
George Barris, Batmobile creator and 'King of the Kustomizers,' dies at 89 |
2016 |
Jury rules against 'Rolling Stone,' reporter in U.Va. rape story |
2016 |
Chicago River dyed Cubs' blue in honor of World Series celebration |
2016 |
Chris Christie aides found guilty of 'Bridgegate' lane closures |
2017 |
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed detained in corruption inquiry |
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