November 5
There are
2 days until the 2016 Presidential election.
There are
56 days remaining in 2016.
There are
49 days until Christmas.
Today is
Bank Transfer Day in the U.S., encouraging a voluntary switch from commercial banks to not-for-profit credit unions.
In the United Kingdom,
Guy Fawkes Night is celebrated, commemorating King James I's survival of an assassination attempt, known as
The Gunpowder Plot. Guy Fawkes Night coincides with
The West Country Carnival.
Ireland celebrates
National Love Your Red Hair Day today.
Events
1138 –
Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam
at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
1499 – Publication of the
Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
1605 –
Gunpowder Plot:
Guy Fawkes is arrested.
1768 –
Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the
Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
1831 –
Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
1862 –
American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303
Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.
1872 –
Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist
Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1895 –
George B. Selden [Selden's father, Henry R. Selden, an attorney, defended Susan B. Anthony in
The United States v. Susan B. Anthony, see 1872 above] is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1912 –
Woodrow Wilson is elected to the presidency of the United States.
1925 –
British Secret Service Bureau secret agent
Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the
OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union. [To catch a secret agent, I guess you use the secret police.]
1943 – World War II:
Bombing of the Vatican.
1983 –
Byford Dolphin diving bell accident (<--Interesting read.) kills five and leaves one severely injured.
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 their roles in the
1982 massacre of 148 Shi'a Muslims.
2007 –
Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.
2009 – A
U.S. Army Medical Corps psychiatrist murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.
Births
1857 – Ida Tarbell; 1905 – Joel McCrea; 1911 – Roy Rogers; 1913 – Vivien Leigh; 1931 – Ike Turner♪ ♫; 1936 – Billy Sherrill♪ ♫; 1937 –
Harris Yulin; 1940 – Elke Sommer

; 1941 – Art Garfunkel♪ ♫(Simon & Garfunkel); 1943 – Sam Shepard; 1946 – Gram Parsons♪ ♫; 1947 – Peter Noone♪ ♫(Herman"s Hermits); 1949 – Armin Shimerman ('Quark' on
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine); 1955 – Kris Jenner; 1957 – Mike Score

(A Flock Of Seagulls); 1958 – Robert Patrick (the
T-1000 in
Terminator 2: Judgment Day); 1959 – Bryan Adams♪ ♫; 1960 – Tilda Swinton; 1963 – Tatum O'Neal; 1963 – Brian Wheat

(Tesla); 1965 – Famke Janssen; 1968 – Sam Rockwell (
The Green Mile); 1971 – Jonny Greenwood


(Radiohead); 1974 – Ryan Adams♪ ♫(Whiskeytown); 1978 – Bubba Watson; 1987 – Kevin Jonas♪ ♫(Jonas Bros)
Deaths
1956 – Art Tatum

; 1960 – Ward Bond; 1960 – Johnny Horton♪ ♫; 1960 – Mack Sennett; 1977 – Guy Lombardo♪ ♫; 1979 – Al Capp; 1989 – Vladimir Horowitz

; 1991 – Fred MacMurray; 2003 – Bobby Hatfield♪ ♫(The Righteous Bros); 2010 – Jill Clayburgh; 2015 – George Barris