Historical Events and Current Affairs on November 5

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
1530 : St Felix Flood ravages Dutch coast
1556 : Akbar (14) succeeds his father Humajun on as Sultan of Delhi
1556 : Battle at Panipat: Mogollegers beat hindu leader Hemu
1605 : Gunpowder Plot; Catholics try to blow up English Parliament. Plot
1605 : 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
1757 : Battle at Rossbach (7 year war/French & Indian War)
1781 : John Hanson elected 1st "Pres 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
1862 : Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac
1862 : Battle at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia: 51 casualties
1871 : Susan B Anthony arrested trying to vote in Rochester NY
1872 : Susan B Anthony fined $100 for trying to vote 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 : to win the Dominion championship
1894 : Frederick Lugards expedition reaches Nikki
1894 : Richard Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegels," premieres
1895 : 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden)
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 Hauptmanns "Fuhrmann Henschel," premieres in Berlin
1911 : airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, NY, Sept 17)
1911 : Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental
1911 : Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tipoli & Cyrenaica
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 & French Jozef I establishes kingdom of Poland
1916 : Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage
1917 : Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
1917 : ordiance requiring blacks & whites to live in separate areas
1917 : Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Lousiville Ky
1919 : Ir ? Steringa Idzerda begins hosting "soir?e-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 : 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 Andr? Gide criticizes Soviet regime
1937 : Hitler informs his military leader 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 : congressional race (R)
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
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
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 : F?lix Gaillard forms govt in France
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 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 : ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disk
1967 : US troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam
1967 : Yemen president Sallal flees
1968 : Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for presidency
1971 : Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping
1973 : BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service
1974 : Dmitri Sjotakovitch completes Michelangelo-liederen
1974 : Ella Grasso (Ct) elected 1st woman US gov not related to previous gov
1974 : Walter E Washington, becomes 1st 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
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 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 : for drug trafficing, conspiracy, & possession of cocaine
1981 : Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years
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 : Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage
1988 : France performs nuclear test
1988 : Is It True, Miesque, Open Mind, Personal Ensign at Churchill Downs
1989 : "Threepenny Opera" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 perfs
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
1994 : Flanders, One Dreamer, Tikkanen, Timber Country
1994 : Space probe Ulyssus completes 1st passage behind the Sun
1994 : Yak-40 accident in north of Peru, 8 killed
1995 : STS 73 (Columbia 18), lands
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 : Bardot, to pay the former screen star $8,300 in damages
1997 : French court orders producer Jacques Charrier, ex-husband of Brigitte

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