This Day in History for 5th November

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 179

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.
1530 - St Felix Flood ravages Dutch coast and destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands
1556 - Akbar (14) succeeds his father Humajun on as Sultan of Delhi
1556 - Battle at Panipat: Mogollegers beat hindu leader Hemu
1605 - Gunpowder Plot; attempt to blow up English Parliament. Plot uncovered & leader Guy Fawkes hanged
1630 - Spain & England sign peace treaty
1639 - 1st 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)
1780 - French-American force under Colonel LaBalme is defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
1781 - John Hanson elected 1st "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
English Catholic Conspirator Guy Fawkes 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
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
1876 - Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Nyangwe
1881 - French government-Ferry resigns
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
1894 - Frederick Lugards expedition reaches Nikki
1894 - Richard Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegels," premieres
US President Ulysses S. Grant 1895 - 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden) for gasoline driven car
1895 - Edward, Prince of Wakes, says "We are all Socialists nowadays"
1895 - US state Utah accepts female suffrage
1898 - Gerhart Hauptmanns "Fuhrmann Henschel," premieres in Berlin
1911 - Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tipoli & 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) & Pres Taft (R)
1913 - Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria
1914 - Britain annexes Cyprus
1914 - Great Britain & France & Russia declares war on Turkey
1916 - Emperor Wilhelm II & Franz Jozef I 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.
US President Woodrow Wilson 1917 - Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
1917 - Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Lousiville Ky ordiance 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"
1932 - Benito Mussolini frees 16,000 criminals
1933 - Chicago Bears 30 game unbeaten streak ends to Patriots (10-0)
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 leader of his intentions of going to war
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini 1937 - World War II: Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.
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 (D-Mass) elected to 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 Rattigans' "Sleeping Prince," premieres in London
1955 - Mont Canadien Jean Beliveau scores 2nd fastest hat trick (44 seconds)
1955 - New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria)
1956 - Britain & France land forces in Egypt
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
1957 - Félix Gaillard forms government in France
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
36th US President Lyndon B Johnson 1963 - US VP Lyndon B Johnson visits Netherlands
1964 - US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 206

1271 - Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
1494 - Hans Sachs, German composer, playwright and shoemaker
1534 - Joachim Camerarius, German botanist/physician (horticulture catalog)
1549 - Philippe de Mornay (or Philippe Du-Plessis-Mornay), French writer (d. 1623)
1563 - Anna van Nassau, daughter of prince Willem I/Anna of Saksen
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)
1654 - Christian Liebe, German composer
1666 - Attilio Ariosti, Italian composer born in Bologna
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, 5th Baron Byron, English duelist (d. 1798)
1742 - Richard Cosway, English artist (d. 1821)
1764 - Pieter Nieuwland, Dutch scientist (Newton)
1770 - Etienne P de Senancour, French author (Obermann)
1779 - Washington Allston, US painter/author
1798 - Carolina F L duchess of Berry, daughter of crown prince of Naples
1818 - Benjamin Franklin Butler, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
1819 - Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, composer
1825 - Julius H [Szamvald] Stahel, Major General (Union volunteers)
1832 - William Woods Averell, Major General (Union Army), died in 1900
1835 - Moritz Szeps, Austrian journalist (d. 1902)
1841 - Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer
1846 - Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869)
1849 - Rui Barbosa, Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties
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, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (d. 1920)
1855 - Eugene V Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
1855 - Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (stratosphere)
1857 - Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was very unhappy)
1866 - Daniel Protheroe, composer
Olympic Runner Teddy Flack (1873) 1873 - Teddy Flack [Edwin], London, Australian athlete, double Olympic gold medallist in 1896, (d. 1935)
1876 - Raymond Duchamp-Villon, cubist sculptor (Head of Baudeaire)
1881 - George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (d. 1961)
1884 - James Elroy Flecker, English poet/dramatist (Hassan)
1885 - Will Durant, US, author/historian (Story of Civilization)
1887 - Oscar Bossaert, Belgium, chocolate manufacturer/min of Middenstand
1887 - Paul Wittgenstein, Vienna Austria, left hand specialist pianist
1890 - Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter (d. 1977)
1891 - Bert McGirr, cricketer (played in NZ's 1st Test series)
1891 - Earle "Greasy" Neale, NFL coach (Philadelphia Eagles)
1891 - Mary Dorna, Dutch author
1892 - J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (d. 1964)
1893 - Raymond Loewy, US industrial designer
1894 - Henri E J A de Page, Belgian private law scholar
1895 - Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer
1895 - Charles MacArthur, American author (d. 1956)
1899 - Forrest Lewis, actor (Monster of Piedras Blancas)
1900 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d. 1972)
1901 - Eddie Paynter, cricketer (England batting hero in Bodyline series)
1902 - Strom Thurmond, (Sen-R-SC, 1955- )
1904 - Cooney Weiland, Canadian hockey player (d. 1985)
1905 - George Bissett, cricketer (successful South African quick in 1927-28)
1905 - Joel McCrea, South Pasadena California, actor (Marshal-Wichita Town)
1906 - George Lowthian Trevelyan, designer/visionary
1906 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
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
1914 - Henri J de Koster, Dutch Min of Defense (1971-73)
1914 - Alton Tobey, American artist (d. 2005)
1915 - Moe Biller, NYC, labor union officer (AFL-CIO, Postal Workers)
1916 - Len Wilkinson, cricketer (England leg-spinner just before WW II)
1917 - Claus Adam, composer
1917 - Jacob Everaers, office clerk/resistance fighter
1917 - Jacqueline Auriol, French aviatrix (d. 2000)
1917 - Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian former Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007)
1919 - Myron Floren, Webster SD, accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1919 - Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher (d. 1978)
1920 - Douglass North, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1920 - Tommy Goodwin [Thomas],Connecticut, British Track Cyclist (2 X Olympic Bronze 1948), (d. 2012)
1921 - Gyorgy Cziffra, Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt)
1921 - Fawzia of Egypt, Queen of Iran
1922 - Violet Barclay, American illustrator
1923 - Ian Arthur Hoyle Munro, medical journalist
1924 - Ivan Rezak, composer
1926 - Leo Derksen, Dutch journalist (Telegraph/Sunday Newspaper)
1927 - Robert Abernethy, Geneva Switz, Newscaster (NBC News Encore)
1929 - Ottmar MA Fraai, Curacaos/Dutch tenor
1930 - Herb Edelman, Bkln NY, actor (Good Guys, Strike Force, 9 to 5)
1931 - Ike Turner, Miss, AKA Mr Tina Turner!, guitarist (A Fool in Love)
1932 - Arthur L Liman, NYC, trial lawyer (Oliver North)
1934 - Nick Smith, (Rep-R-Michigan)
1934 - Victor Argo, American actor (d. 2004)
1935 - Dick Davalos, Bronx, actor (Jeff-The Americans)
1935 - Jerry Amper Dadap, composer
1935 - John Nicholas Maw, composer
1935 - Lester Piggott, British jockey (11 time champ)
1935 - Christopher Wood, English screenwriter and novellist
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 - Chris Robinson, Fla, actor (Stanley, General Hospital, Another World)
1938 - Joe Dassin, French-speaking American singer (d. 1980)
1938 - César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer
1939 - Ken Walter, South African cricket pace bowler (1961-62 series v NZ)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 3 of 3

1940 - American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway marries journalist Martha Gellhorn
1977 - 43rd US President George W. Bush (31) weds Laura Welch (31) at The First United Methodist Church in Midland, Texas
2005 - 2004 Indianapolis 500 racecar driver winner Buddy Rice (29) weds Michelle Noonan in Arizona

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 108

1370 - Kazimierz III, the Great, King of Poland (1333-70), dies at 61
1515 - Mariotto di Bigio di Bindo Albertinelli, Italian painter, dies at 41
1559 - Kano Motonobu, Zen co-founder (Kano school of painting), dies at 83
1603 - Irini Fedorovna, Russian daughter of Boris Godunov, dies
1660 - Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (b. 1599)
1660 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
1669 - John Coccejus, German/Neth reformed theologist, dies at about 66
1675 - Kurt S Adeler, Danish admiral/ship designer, dies at 52
1680 - Gillis Valckenier, mayor of Amsterdam (1665..80), dies at about 57
1701 - Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician (bc. 1659)
1714 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (b. 1633)
1737 - Johan W van Ripperda, Dutch diplomat/baron/duke, dies at 55
1743 - Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer, composer, dies at 44
1752 - Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (b. 1670)
1758 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
1772 - Johannes Schmidlin, composer, dies at 50
1772 - Pieter Steyn, Dutch grand pensionary (1749-72), dies at 66
1801 - Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist, dies
1803 - Ch de Laclos, writer, dies
1804 - Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, poetess (Sara Burgerhart), dies at 66
1819 - Dirk van den Boetzelaer, regent of Holland, dies at 55
1828 - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (b. 1759)
1834 - Aernout Drost, Dutch literary/founder (The Guide), dies at 24
1836 - Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810)
1850 - Ferdinand KJ, archduke of Austria, dies at 69
1854 - Soimonov, Russian general, dies in battle of Inkermann
1860 - Carl Binder, composer, dies at 43
1879 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (speed of light), dies at 48
1883 - William Hicks, British col/commander (Egyptian army), dies in battle
1923 - Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French novelist (b. 1880)
Bacteriologist Christiaan Eijkman (1930) 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)
1935 - Mina Dilis-Beersmans, Flemish actress/wife of John Dilis, dies at 71
1941 - Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist (b. 1905)
1942 - George M Cohan, composer, dies at 64
1943 - Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist, dies at 62
1944 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
1946 - Sigismond Stojowski, composer, dies at 77
1950 - Jacobus J E Hondius, Dutch classicist/graphic artist, dies at 53
1951 - Agrippina J Vaganova, Russian ballet dancers/pegagoge, dies at 72
1951 - Bedrich Antonin Wiedermann, composer, dies at 67
1955 - Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1883)
1956 - Art Tatum, black pianist, dies at 46 in Los Angeles
1956 - Art Tatum, American musician (b. 1909)
1960 - August Gailit, Estonian writer (Ekke Moor), dies at 69
1960 - Johnny Horton, country singer, dies at 33
1960 - Mack Sennett, director/producer (Keystone Cops), dies
1960 - Ward Bond, actor (Wagon Train), dies of heart attack at 57
1964 - Alexander Uriah Boskovich, composer, dies at 57
1964 - Lansdale Sasscer, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (b. 1893)
1968 - Estelle Hemsley, actress (Leech Woman, Take aGiant Step), dies at 81
1968 - Robert Ayres, actor (Battle Beneath the Earth), dies at 54
1969 - Itih Walracen, Sudanese widow of author William Walraven, dies
1969 - Lloyd Corrigan, actor (Prof McKillup-Hank), dies at 69
1971 - Sam Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
1972 - Reginald Owen, actor (Above Suspicion, Love on the Run), dies at 85
1974 - Stafford Repp, actor (Chief O'Hara-Batman), dies at 56
1975 - Annette Kellerman, swimmer (Million Dollar Mermaid), dies at 87
1975 - Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1909)
1975 - Lionel Trilling, American critic and writer (b. 1905)
1977 - Aleksei G Stachanov, Russian model miner, dies at 72
1977 - Guy Lombardo, orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne), dies in Houston at 75
1977 - René Goscinny, French writer (Asterix), dies at 51
1978 - Denis O'Dea, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower), dies at 73
1979 - Al Capp, US cartoonist (Li'l Abner), dies at 70
1982 - Gerda Brautigam, journalist/Dutch MP (PvdA), dies
1982 - Jacques Tati[scheff], French actor/director (Parade), dies at 74
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)
1987 - Eamonn Andrews, Television Presenter (b. 1922)
1989 - Barry Sadler, singer (Green Berets), murdered at 49 in Murfreesboro Tn
1989 - Vladimir Horovitz, Ukrainian/US pianist, dies at 85
1990 - Bobby Nunn, US bassist (Coasters-Down in Mexico), dies at about 65
1990 - Herbert Berghof, actor (Belarus File), dies of heart failure at 81
1991 - Fred MacMurray, actor (My Three Sons), dies of pneumonia at 83
1991 - Robert Maxwell, Billionaire publisher (NY Daily News), dies at 68
1992 - Arpad E Elo, Hungarian physicist (chess classification system), dies
1992 - Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer (Oort Cloud), dies at 92
1994 - McHenry Boatwright, signer, dies at 66
1995 - Laura Weber, TV Host, dies at 70
1996 - Eddie Harris, saxophonist/composer, dies at 62
1996 - Lars-Ake Nilsson, diplomat, dies at 53
1996 - Paula Hinton, dancer, dies at 72
1996 - Ronald Ogden, engineer, dies at 81
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)