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What happened in history on this day: November 5?
On November 5 in ...
- 1872 - Susan B Anthony fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S Grant for US President.
- 1875 - Susan B Anthony is arrested for attempting to vote in US national election.
- 1895 - First US patent granted for automobile (George B Selden).
- 1911 - Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing first US transcontinental airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, New York, Sept 17).
- 1912 - USA Presidential election: Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) beats Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive) and President Taft (Republican).
- 1917 - US Supreme Court decision (Buchanan versus Warley) strikes down Louisville, Kentucky, ordinance requiring blacks and whites to live in separate areas.
- 1935 - Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of Maryland to admit (black) Donald Murray.
- 1937 - The Disney Silly Symphony film The Old Mill is released to theaters in the USA. This is the first animated film using a multiplane camera. The camera alone cost US$70,000 to build, and stands 14 feet high.
- 1940 - President Franklin Roosevelt (Democrat) wins unprecedented third term beating Wendell Willkie (Republican).
- 1946 - John F Kennedy (Democrat-Massachusetts) elected to US House of Representatives.
- 1964 - US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned.
- 1967 - ATS-3 launched by US to take first pictures of full Earth disk.
- 1968 - Richard Nixon (Republican) beats Vice President Hubert Humphrey (Democrat) and George C Wallace for US Presidency.
- 1974 - Walter E Washington becomes first elected mayor of Washington DC.
- 1987 - US Supreme Court nominee Douglas H Ginsburg admits using marijuana.
- 1988 - Cornell confirms grad student (Robert Tappan Morris, Junior) source of worst computer sabotage.
- 1990 - American rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
- 1990 - Disney's Yacht Club Resort hotel opens in Walt Disney World in Florida.
- 1991 - David Duke, a white supremacist running as a Republican, loses the Louisiana Governor's race to Democratic candidate Edwin Edwards, by an overwhelming margin.
- 1994 - A letter by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan is released that announces he has Alzheimer's disease.
- 1996 - U.S. presidential election: Democrat incumbent Bill Clinton defeats Republican challenger Bob Dole to win his second term.
- 1999 - US District Judge Thomas Jackson issues his 207-page Findings of Fact, ruling that Microsoft has monopoly power over personal computer operating systems, and uses that power to harm American consumers.
- 2002 - In U.S. elections, the Republican Party maintains control of the House of Representatives and regains control of the United States Senate.
- 2003 - Gary Ridgway, the "Green River Killer", confesses to murdering 48 women.
- 2022 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts Lionel Ritchie, Pat Benetar, Neil Giraldo, Duran Duran, Eminem, Eurythmics, Dolly Parton, and Carly Simon.
Births on November 5
- 1905 - Birth of Joel McCrea in South Pasadena, California, USA; actor (Marshal - Wichita Town).
- 1911 - Birth of Roy Rogers in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; cowboy (Happy Trails, Roy Rogers Show).
- 1912 - Birth of Natalie Schaeffer in Rumson, New Jersey, USA; actress (Lovey Howell - Gilligan's Island).
- 1913 - Birth of John McGiver in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show).
- 1915 - Birth of Moe Biller in New York City, New York, USA; labor union officer (AFL-CIO, Postal Workers).
- 1919 - Birth of Myron Floren Webster in San Diego, California, USA; accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show).
- 1930 - Birth of Herb Edelman in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Good Guys, Strike Force, 9 to 5).
- 1931 - Birth of Ike Turner; American singer and songwriter ("A Fool in Love") (dies 2007).
- 1932 - Birth of Arthur L Liman in New York City, New York, USA; trial lawyer (Oliver North).
- 1935 - Birth of Dick Davalos in Bronx, New York, USA; actor (Jeff - The Americans).
- 1938 - Birth of Chris Robinson in Florida, USA; actor (Stanley - General Hospital, Another World).
- 1941 - Birth of Patricia Harty in Washington DC, USA; actress (Occasional Wife, Blondie).
- 1942 - Birth of Art Garfunkel in New York City, USA; singer/actor ("Sounds of Silence", "Carnal Knowledge").
- 1942 - Birth of Richie Scheinblum in Bronx, New York, USA; outfielder for the Kansas City Royals (Sporting News All Star Right fielder 1972 American League).
- 1957 - Birth of Jon-Erik Hexum in Tenafly, New Jersey, USA; actor (Voyager, Cover-up).
- 1963 - Birth of Andrea McArdle in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Annie).
- 1963 - Birth of Tatum O'Neal in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Paper Moon, Little Darlings).
- 1969 - Birth of Jennifer Guthrie in Willimantic, Connecticut, USA; actress (Dawn - General Hospital).
- 1971 - Birth of Corin "Corky" Nemec in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA; actor (Tucker, Parker Lewis).
Deaths on November 5
- 1960 - Death of Johnny Horton at age 33 in head-on car crash near Milano, Texas, USA; singer ("The Battle of New Orleans", "North to Alaska", "Sink the Bismark").
- 1977 - Guy Lombardo, orchestra leader ("Auld Lang Syne"), dies in Houston, Texas, at age 75.
- 1979 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (Lil' Abner), dies at age 70 (born 1909).
- 1985 - Death of Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1895).
- 1989 - Death of Barry Sadler at age 49 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in a coma from a gunshot to the head a year earlier; songwriter/singer ("The Ballad of the Green Berets").
- 1991 - Death of Fred MacMurray at age 83 of pneumonia; actor (Steve Douglas - My Three Sons).
- 1991 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born American billionaire publisher (New York Daily News), is found floating dead in the Atlantic Ocean, at age 68 (born 1923).
- 2003 - Death of Bobby Hatfield at age 63 of a heart attack in his sleep; singer (The Righteous Brothers - "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" (1964)).
- 2006 - Death of Samuel Bowers, American Ku Klux Klansman and convicted killer (born 1924).
- 2008 - Best-selling author Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, TV show ER) dies in Los Angeles at age 66 from cancer.
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