November 5

Historic Events

2024

Donald Trump becomes the first president of the United States to be elected to a non-consecutive second term in 132 years, since Grover Cleveland won the 1892 election. ›

2021

The Astroworld Festival crowd crush results in 10 deaths and 25 people being hospitalized ›

2017

Devin Patrick Kelley kills 26 and injures 22 in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. ›

2015

An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing. ›

2015

Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. ›

2013

India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe. ›

2010

JS Air Flight 201 crashes after takeoff from Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing all 21 aboard. ›

2009

U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation. ›

2007

China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon. ›

2007

The Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google. ›

2006

Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shia Muslims. ›

1996

Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly. ›

1996

Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States. ›

1995

André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door. ›

1991

Tropical Storm Thelma causes flash floods in the Philippine city of Ormoc, killing more than 4,900 people. ›

1990

Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel. ›

1986

USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao, China; the first US naval visit to China since 1949. ›

1983

The Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured. ›

1970

The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24). ›

1968

Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States. ›

1956

Suez Crisis: British and French paratroopers land in Egypt after a week-long bombing campaign. ›

1955

After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio. ›

1945

The three-day anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania commence. ›

1943

World War II: Bombing of the Vatican. ›

1940

World War II: The British armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay is sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. ›

1940

Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term. ›

1925

Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union. ›

1917

Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church. ›

1916

The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary. ›

1916

The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police. ›

1914

World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire. ›

1913

King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III. ›

1912

Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft. ›

1911

After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica. ›

1898

Negrese nationalists revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros. ›

1895

George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile. ›

1881

In New Zealand, 1600 armed volunteers and constabulary field forces led by Minister of Native Affairs John Bryce march on the pacifist Māori settlement at Parihaka, evicting upwards of 2000 residents, and destroying the settlement in the context of the New Zealand land confiscations. ›

1872

Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100. ›

1862

American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac. ›

1862

American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to death. Thirty-eight are ultimately hanged and the others reprieved. ›

1834

Founding of the Free University of Brussels by Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen. ›

1828

Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea (now the Peloponnese) ends when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula. ›

1811

Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado rings the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement. ›

1780

French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle. ›

1768

The Treaty of Fort Stanwix is signed, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies. ›

1757

Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach. ›

1688

Prince William III of Orange lands with a Dutch fleet at Brixham to challenge the rule of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland). ›

1605

Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament, where he had planted gunpowder in an attempt to blow up the building and kill King James I of England. ›

1556

Second Battle of Panipat: Fighting begins between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the Hindu king at Delhi and the forces of the Muslim emperor Akbar. ›

1499

The Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary. ›

1138

Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign. ›

1009

Berber forces led by Sulayman ibn al-Hakam defeat the Umayyad caliph Muhammad II of Córdoba in the Battle of Qantish. ›