Historical Events on November 5

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• 1228 Wu MeKuan, a collection of 48 Zen koans, compiled in China
• 1414 Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens

• 1499 Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (Brittany). Breton-French-Latin dictionary written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc was first Breton and French dictionary

• 1530 St Felix Flood ravages Dutch coast and destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands

• 1630 Spain & England sign peace treaty
• 1639 First post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts
• 1678 Brandenburgse troops occupy Greifswald in Sweden
• 1725 Spain & Austria sign secret treaty

• 1743 Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury were organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
• 1757 Battle at Rossbach (7 year war/French & Indian War)

• 1780 French-American force under Colonel LaBalme is defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle
• 1781 John Hanson elected first "President of US in Congress assembled"
• 1789 Fleeing slaves under Bonni attack military post on Suriname
• 1789 French National Meeting declares all citizens equal under law
• 1811 El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence
• 1838 Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation

• 1854 Crimean War: British & French defeat Russian force of 50,000 at Inkerman

• 1862 Battle at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia: 51 casualties

• 1881 1,600 police and volunteers attack Māori settlement at Parihaka in western Taranaki which had become the symbol of protest against the confiscation of Māori land, New Zealand
• 1881 French government-Ferry resigns

• 1883 Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi's army destroys Egyptian army
• 1883 Edward Harrigan's musical farce "Cordelia's Aspirations" premieres at Theatre Comique, NYC
• 1887 Ottawa College (ORFU) defeats Montreal Football Club (QRFU) 10-5 to win the Dominion championship
• 1889 Louisa Woosley first women to be ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian denomination (US Cumberland Presbyterian Church).
• 1894 Frederick Lugards expedition reaches Nikki

• 1895 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden) for gasoline driven car
• 1895 Edward, Prince of Wales, says "We are all Socialists nowadays"
• 1895 US state Utah accepts female suffrage

• 1901 Debut concert of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Emil Młynarski; program features Zygmunt Stojowski's Symphony in D minor (Op. 21)

• 1911 Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, NY, Sept 17)
• 1911 Italian forces take Tripoli & Cyrenaica, declaring suzerainty over Ottoman-controlled Libya
• 1912 Arizona, Kansas & Wisconsin vote for female suffrage
• 1912 Bulgarian troops in Constantinople blockade drinking water

• 1913 Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria
• 1914 Britain declares war on Turkey and annexes Cyprus, occupied since 1878; the immediate reason is to keep it from being taken by Turkey

• 1916 Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage
• 1916 The Everett Massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between IWW organizers and local police.
• 1917 Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
• 1917 Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Louisville, Kentucky, ordinance requiring backs & whites to live in separate areas
• 1919 Ir à Steringa Idzerda begins hosting "soirée-musical" on Dutch radio
• 1921 Soviet Russia signs a treaty with Mongolia, temporarily supporting the new government against China and Japanese incursions
• 1922 Demonstration for a Dutch University in Ghent
• 1925 British secret agent Sidney Reilly ('Ace of Spies') is executed in a forest near Moscow by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union

• 1930 Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt"
• 1932 Benito Mussolini frees 16,000 convicts
• 1933 Chicago Bears 30 game unbeaten streak ends to Patriots (10-0)
• 1933 Spanish Basques vote for autonomy
• 1935 Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of Maryland to admit Donald Murray, a black man
• 1935 Parker Brothers launches the board game Monopoly

• 1938 Ottawa Roughriders score on 5-man, 4-lateral, 65-yard punt return
• 1938 Rugers beats Princeton 1st time in 60 yrs as Rutgers Stad dedicated

• 1940 Dutch submarine departs Dundee

• 1942 Nazi raid on Greek Jews in Paris
• 1942 Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarez's final transmission
• 1943 Vatican in Rome bombed by unknown source
• 1944 Allied troops reach Zoutelande, Walcheren
• 1944 Canadian & British troops liberate Dinteloord
• 1944 German troops blow-up Heusden North Brabant city hall, 134 die
• 1945 Colombia joins the United Nations.

• 1950 Cleveland Browns' Tommy James intercepts 3 passes, club record

• 1951 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1953 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Frederik Zernicke
• 1953 Paul Searls saws a 32" log in 86.4 seconds

• 1955 Date returned to in "Back to the Future" by Marty McFly
• 1955 The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens after it was destroyed in World War II, with Ludwig van Beethoven's "Fidelio"

• 1956 Britain and France land airborne forces at Port Said in Egypt, escalating the Suez Crisis
• 1956 Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized
• 1956 Israel liberates Sharm-el-Sheikh, reopening Gulf of Aqaba

• 1957 Mrs Nellie McGrail wins $574,658 on a 2½ cent soccer pool ticket
• 1958 KGLD (now KSNG) TV channel 11 in Garden City, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast
• 1959 AFL announced with 8 teams

• 1961 NFL St Louis Cardinals' Bill Stacy, returns 2 interceptions for TDs vs Dallas Cowboys

• 1964 US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned

• 1966 BYU quarterback Virgil Carter sets new NCAA single-game records with 513 passing yards and 599 yards of total offence in 53-33 win against Texas Western in Provo, Utah
• 1966 The Monkees score their 1st Billboard No. 1 - ‘Last Train To Clarksville’, written by Bobby Hart and Tommy Boyce
• 1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1967 ATS-3 launched by US to take first pictures of full Earth disc
• 1967 New Orleans Saints 1st NFL victory, beat Philadelphia Eagles 31-24

• 1967 US troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam
• 1967 Yemen president Sallal flees

• 1971 Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping
• 1971 NBA's LA Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak
• 1972 Vice-President of Sinn Féin Maire Drumm is arrested in the Republic of Ireland
• 1973 Arab producers announce 25 percent cut in oil production
• 1973 BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service

• 1974 Dmitri Shostakovich completes Michelangelo songs
• 1974 Ella Grasso (Ct) elected first woman US governor not related to previous governor
• 1974 Walter E Washington, becomes first elected mayor of Washington, D.C.
• 1975 British government sends troops to Belize
• 1975 Sao Tome & Principe adopts constitution

• 1976 New AL franchises in Seattle & Toronto fill up their rosters
• 1976 Pirates trade Manny Sanguillen & $100,000 to A's for mgr Chuck Tanner
• 1976 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1977 NCAA passing record set at 571 yards (Marc Wilson, Brigham Young)

• 1979 Iran government of Bazargan resigns
• 1979 Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini describes the United States as "The Great Satan" amid accusations of imperialism and the sponsoring of corruption
• 1981 Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking, conspiracy and possession of cocaine
• 1982 Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record)

• 1983 NY Rangers & Quebec Nordiques both score in 1st 14 secs of 3rd period
• 1983 Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moves overland to Dryden

• 1987 France performs nuclear test
• 1987 Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
• 1987 South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed
• 1987 US Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admits using marijuana, later withdraws from consideration
• 1988 "Kokomo" single by The Beach Boys from the film "Cocktail" goes to #1
• 1988 "Kokomo", single by the Beach Boys from the film "Cocktail" tops the charts, their first hit in 20 years, and to date their latest
• 1988 1st NBA game at Bradley Center, Milw Bucks lose to Atlnata Hawks 94-107
• 1988 1st NBA game at Miami Arena, Miami Heat loss to LA Clippers, 111-91
• 1988 1st NBA game at Palace of Auburn Hills, Pistons beat Hornets 94-85
• 1988 Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage
• 1988 France performs nuclear test
• 1988 Gulch wins Breeder's Cup
• 1988 Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo (Game 1 of 7)
• 1989 Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record of 16 cons pass completions

• 1989 US plays El Salvador in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
• 1990 Reports of increasing Saudi petroleum production and lower world demand
• 1991 Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan
• 1991 Richard J Kerr ends term as acting director of CIA

• 1993 1st NBA game in Alamodome, San Antonio Spurs beat Warriors 91-85

• 1994 Space probe Ulyssus completes 1st passage behind the Sun
• 1994 Tony Rominger bicycles world record for distance covered in one hour for second time (55.291 km)
• 1994 Yak-40 accident in north of Peru, 8 killed

• 1995 First NBA game at General Motors Place in Vancouver; Grizzlies beat Minnesota Timberwolves, 100-98 in OT
• 1995 STS 73 (Columbia 18), lands

• 1997 2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns he is named AL Manager of Year

• 2007 China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon.
• 2009 US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan (US Army Medical Corps) killed 13 and wounded 43 at Fort Hood, Texas in the largest mass shooting ever at a US military installation.

• 2012 50 Syrian military personnel are killed by a suicide car bomb in Hama
• 2012 Widespread flooding in Nigeria kills 363 people and displaces 2.1 million
• 2013 4 people are killed after a 4-story building under construction collapses in Lagos, Nigeria
• 2013 Bill de Blasio is elected New York City Mayor

• 2015 Collins Dictionary name "binge-watch" the word of the year, followed by "transgender"
• 2015 Fundão dam in Brazil collapses, killing about 23, causing a second dam to fail, releasing a massive flood of mud down the Rio Dulce
• 2015 Japan's 1st officially recognized same-sex couple union - Koyuki Higashi and Hiroko Matsuhara in Tokyo
• 2017 Bodies of 26 migrant teenage girls recovered from the Mediterranean, another 400 migrants rescued
• 2017 Brooke Raboutou wins a gold medal in lead climbing at the Pan American Youth Championship in Montreal, Canada
• 2017 Brooke Raboutou wins a gold medal in the combined climbing event at the Pan American Youth Championship in Montreal, Canada

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