Major Events
- 1492 Christopher Columbus learns how to grow and harvest maize (corn) from Cuba’s Indigenous population
- 1556 Second Battle of Panipat: Hindu Emperor of North India Hem Chandra Vikramaditya is defeated by forces of Mughal Emperor Akbar, who captures and later beheads Hem Chandra
- 1605 Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up King James I and the British Parliament in the Gunpowder Plot. The plot is discovered, and Guy Fawkes is caught, tortured, and later executed along with seven others. Celebrated ever since as Guy Fawkes Day, his effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, accompanied by fireworks.
- 1937 Adolf Hitler informs his military leaders in a secret meeting of his intention to go to war
- 1956 Britain and France land airborne forces at Port Said in Egypt, escalating the Suez Crisis
- 1979 Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini describes the United States as “The Great Satan” amid accusations of imperialism and the sponsoring of corruption
Nov 5 in Film & TV
- 1956 “The Nat King Cole Show” debuts on NBC, the first variety program to be hosted by an African-American
Nov 5 in Music
- 1955 The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens after being destroyed in World War II with Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Fidelio”
Nov 5 in Sport
- 1992 American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer defeats Russian Boris Spassky in an unofficial match in Belgrade dubbed the “Revenge Match of the 20th Century”
Did You Know?
Louisa Woosley is the first woman ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian denomination in the US (Cumberland Presbyterian Church)
Famous Weddings
- 1938 British tenor Webster Booth (36) weds second wife, his duet singing partner Anne Ziegler (28), until his death in 1984
- 1940 American “A Farewell to Arms” novelist Ernest Hemingway (41) weds for a third time, to American novelist and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (31); divorce in 1945
- 1941 Writer and veterinary surgeon James Herriot (25) weds Joan Catherine Danbury
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