November 5th in History

On This Day in History

  • The Gunpowder Plot is discovered and foiled (1605)
  • The Glorious Revolution begins (1688)
  • The Treaty of Fort Stanwix settles claims between the British North American colonies and the Iroquois nation (1763)
  • Nat Turner is convicted of leading a slave rebellion in Virginia (1831)
  • Susan B. Anthony is arrested for voting (1872)
  • A labor strike turns violent and leads to the Everett Massacre in Washington state (1916)
  • George Reilly, the “Ace of Spies” is executed by the Soviets (1925)
  • Saddam Hussein is convicted and sentenced to death (2005)
  • The Fort Hood Shootings take place (2009)

Birthdays

  • Famke Janssen, actress (1965)
  • Tatum O’Neal, actress (1963)
  • Andrea McArdle, actress (1963)
  • Bryan Adams, singer-songwriter (1959)
  • Robert Patrick, actor (1958)
  • Kris Kardashian Jenner, reality star (1955)
  • Armin Shimerman, actor (1949)
  • Bernard-Henri Lévi, philosopher (1948)
  • Sam Shepard, actor and playwright (1948)
  • Peter Noone, lead singer for Herman’s Hermits (1947)
  • Gram Parsons, singer-songwriter (1946)
  • Art Garfunkel, singer (1941)
  • Elke Sommer, actress (1940)
  • Jim Steranko, comic book artist (1938)
  • Vivien Leigh, actress (1913)
  • Roy Rogers, “King of the Cowboys” (1911)
  • J. B. S. Haldane, geneticist (1892)
  • Will Durant, historian (1885)
  • Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader (1855)

Deaths

  • Jill Clayburgh, actress (2010)
  • John Fowles, author (2005)
  • Fred MacMurray, actor (1991)
  • Vladimir Horowitz, pianist (1989)
  • Jacques Tati, actor and director (1982)
  • Al Capp, cartoonist (1979)
  • Guy Lombardo, bandleader (1977)
  • Lionel Trilling, critic (1975)
  • “Sad” Sam Jones, baseball player (1971)
  • Mack Sennett, director (1960)
  • Ward Bond, actor (1960)
  • Art Tatum, jazz pianist (1956)
  • Maurice Utrillo, painter (1955)
  • Alexis Carrel, surgeon, co-developer of the first perfusion pump for open heart surgery (1944)
  • George M. Cohan, playwright, composer, actor, singer, producer (1942)
  • James Clerk Maxwell, physicist (1879)
  • Casimir III the Great, Polish monarch (1370)

Holidays

  • Guy Fawkes Night (United Kingdom and some Commonwealth nations)
  • Kanakadasa Jayanthi (India)
  • National Doughnut Day (US)
  • West Country Carnival (England)