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On this day - November 5

1009 — Berber forces led by Sulayman ibn al-Hakam defeat the Umayyad ...

1138 — Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of ...

1499 — The Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, ...

1556 — Second Battle of Panipat: Fighting begins between the forces ...

1605 — Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested in the cellars of the ...

1688 — Prince William III of Orange lands with a Dutch fleet at ...

1757 — Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied ...

1768 — The Treaty of Fort Stanwix is signed, the purpose of which is ...

1780 — French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by ...

1811 — Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado rings the bells of La ...

1828 — Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to ...

1834 — Founding of the Free University of Brussels by Pierre-Théodore ...

1862 — American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are ...

1862 — American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. ...

1872 — Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the ...

1881 — In New Zealand, 1600 armed volunteers and constabulary field ...

1895 — George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an ...

1898 — Negrese nationalists revolt against Spanish rule and establish ...

1911 — After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, ...

1912 — Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United ...

1913 — King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent ...

1914 — World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the ...

1916 — The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as ...

1916 — The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November ...

1917 — Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian ...

1925 — Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of ...

1940 — Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the ...

1940 — World War II: The British armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis ...

1943 — World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.

1945 — The three-day anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania commence.

1950 — Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th ...

1955 — After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna ...

1956 — Suez Crisis: British and French paratroopers land in Egypt ...

1968 — Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United ...

1970 — The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest ...

1983 — The Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves ...

1986 — USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao, China; ...

1990 — Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is ...

1991 — Tropical Storm Thelma causes flash floods in the Philippine ...

1995 — André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean ...

1996 — Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.

1996 — Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of ...

2006 — Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, and his ...

2007 — The Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.

2007 — China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into ...

2009 — U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort ...

2010 — JS Air Flight 201 crashes after takeoff from Jinnah ...

2013 — India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first ...

2015 — Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of ...

2015 — An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of ...

2017 — Devin Patrick Kelley kills 26 and injures 22 in a church in ...

2021 — The Astroworld Festival crowd crush results in 10 deaths and ...

2024 — Donald Trump becomes the first president of the United States ...