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Birthday November 05, 1855 Eugene V. Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate |
Birthday November 05, 1857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was very unhappy) |
Birthday November 05, 1876 Raymond Duchamp-Villon, cubist sculptor |
Birthday November 05, 1885 Will Durant, writer, historian (Story of Civilization) |
Birthday November 05, 1891 Earle (Greasy) Neale, NFL coach (Philadelphia Eagles) |
Birthday November 05, 1905 Joel McCrea, Actor |
Birthday November 05, 1912 Roy Rogers, cowboy (Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger) |
Birthday November 05, 1913 Vivien Leigh, Frankly my dear I don't give a damn |
Birthday November 05, 1931 Ike Turner, AKA Mr. Tina Turner! |
Birthday November 05, 1941 Patricia Hardy |
Birthday November 05, 1941 Art Garfunkel, singer |
Birthday November 05, 1942 Paul Simon, singer, songwriter (Bridge Over Troubled Waters) |
Birthday November 05, 1942 Elke Sommer, in Berlin Germany |
Birthday November 05, 1943 Sam Shepard, American playwright |
Birthday November 05, 1946 Patricia K. Kuhl, speech and hearing scientist |
Birthday November 05, 1952 Bill Walton, NBA star (Portland Trail Blazers, Boston Celtics) |
Birthday November 05, 1963 Tatum O'Neal, in LA aka Mrs John Macenroe (Paper Moon) |
Birthday November 05, 1963 Andrea McArdle, in Phila - Sun will come out tommorrow |
History November 05, 1556 Mughal victory assures Akbar's ascension |
History November 05, 1605 King James learns of gunpowder plot |
History November 05, 1605 Plot to blow up British parliment fails - 1st Guy Fawkes day |
History November 05, 1752 Guy Fawkes Day |
History November 05, 1775 Washington condemns Guy Fawkes festivities |
History November 05, 1781 John Hanson elected 1st 'Pres of the US in Congress assembled' |
History November 05, 1862 Lincoln removes McClellan |
History November 05, 1862 300 Santee Sioux sentenced to hang in Minnesota |
History November 05, 1875 Susan B Anthony arrested for attempting to vote |
History November 05, 1893 Willa Cather starts writing for the Nebraska State Journal |
History November 05, 1895 George Selden patents gas-powered car |
History November 05, 1895 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden) |
History November 05, 1911 1st coast-to-coast airplane flight (NY-Pasadena with many stops) |
History November 05, 1912 Wilson wins landslide victory |
History November 05, 1914 Battle of Tanga ends in defeat for British colonial troops |
History November 05, 1930 An American Nobel Prize in Literature |
History November 05, 1938 Samuel Barber's Adagio For Strings receives its world premiere on NBC radio |
History November 05, 1940 FDR re-elected president |
History November 05, 1967 ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disc |
History November 05, 1968 Richard Nixon elected president |
History November 05, 1968 Nixon wins presidential election |
History November 05, 1970 U.S. combat deaths down |
History November 05, 1973 BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service |
History November 05, 1974 Ella Grasso Ct elected 1st woman US gov not related to previous gov |
History November 05, 1977 George W. Bush marries Laura Welch in Midland, Texas |
History November 05, 1982 Cleve Cavs lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record) |
History November 05, 1990 Jewish extremist assassinated in New York |
History November 05, 1991 Philippines struggles with severe flooding |
History November 05, 1994 George Foreman becomes oldest heavyweight champ in history |
History November 05, 2007 Writers strike stalls production of TV shows, movies |
History November 05, 2009 Army major kills 13 people in Fort Hood shooting spree |