5 November

The 5t o November is the 309t day o the year (310t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 56 days bidin.

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Events

1605: Guy Fawkes' and fellow conspirators' Gunpouder Plot is stoppit.

1940: Election results in the Unitit States.

• 1605 - Guy Fawkes ettles tae set aff the gunpouder for tae malafouster the Hooses o Pairlament in England.
• 1688 - William III o Ingland lands at Brixton, stairtin the "Glorious Revolution".
• 1844 - James K. Polk is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
• 1872 - Ulysses S. Grant is re-electit Preses o the Unitit States.
• 1912 - Woodrow Wilson is electit Preses o the Unitit States, ower William Howard Taft.
• 1940 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is electit tae a record third term as Preses o the Unitit States.
• 1943 - Warld War II: Bombs are droppit on Vatican Ceety.
• 1945 - Colombie jyns the Unitit Naitions.
• 1968 - Richard Nixon is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
• 1996 - Bill Clinton is re-electit Preses o the Unitit States, defeatin Bob Dole.
• 2006 - Umwhile Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is sentenced tae daith.
• 2007 - The Fowkrepublic o Cheenae's satellite Chang'e enters intae orbit around the Muin.
• 2009 - 13 fowk are kilt in a shuitin at Fort Hood, Texas, in the deadliest mass shuitin on a Unitit States militar installation.
• 2013 - Bill de Blasio is electit Mayor o New York Ceety.
• 2017 - Sutherland Springs kirk shuitin: 26 fowk are kilt in a shuitin at a Baptist kirk in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
• 2017 - The leaked Paradise Papers are published, revealin affshore financial dealins (incluidin tax avoidance) o celebrities, businessfowk, politeecians (an associates) an companies. The "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" shares the documents wi the Internaitional Consortium o Investigative Jurnalists.

Births

Vivien Leigh

Tilda Swinton

• 1615 - Ibrahim o the Ottoman Empire (d. 1648)
• 1773 - Alexander Monro, Scots anatomist (d. 1859)
• 1787 - Daniel Fraser, Scots ingineer (d. 1849)
• 1787 - John Richardson, Scots naval surgeon, naituralist an Airctic splorer (d. 1865)
• 1854 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist (d. 1941)
• 1864 - Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Scots airtist (d. 1933)
• 1892 - J. B. S. Haldane, Scots scientist (d. 1964)
• 1913 - Vivien Leigh, Inglis actress (d. 1967)
• 1931 - Ike Turner, American sangster (d. 2007)
• 1936 - Uwe Seeler, German fitbawer
• 1941 - Art Garfunkel, American sangster (Simon & Garfunkel)
• 1950 - Thorbjorn Jagland, Norse politeecian
• 1952 - Oleh Blokhin, Ukrainian fitbawer an coach
• 1953 - Tricia Marwick, Scots politeecian
• 1959 - Bryan Adams, Canadian sangster
• 1960 - Tilda Swinton, Scots actress
• 1963 - Jean-Pierre Papin, French fitbawer
• 1980 - Christoph Metzelder, German fitbawer
• 1984 - Jim Thompson, Scots rugby union player
• 1986 - Kasper Schmeichel, Dens fitbawer
• 1997 - Greg Taylor, Scots fitbawer

Daiths

• 1370 - Casimir III o Poland (b. 1310)
• 1774 - John Murray, 3rd Duke o Atholl, Scots peer an politeecian (b. 1729)
• 1879 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scots pheesicist (b. 1831)
• 1930 - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch medicinar an pathologist (b. 1858)
• 1944 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon (b. 1873)
• 1956 - Art Tatum, American pianist an componer (b. 1909)
• 1989 - Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-American pianist (b. 1903)
• 1997 - Isaiah Berlin, Latvie-born philosopher (b. 1909)
• 2006 - Bobby Shearer, Scots fitbawer (b. 1931)

Halidays

Guy Fawkes Nicht celebration

• Guy Fawkes Nicht (Unitit Kinrick, New Zealand, Newfoundland an Labrador)

Ootside airtins

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