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Wednesday November 5, 2014 This is the 309th day of the year, with 56 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: airmail On the eve of World War II, postal service across the North Atlantic had begun but the boom in global airmail service occurred after the war.
Holidays United Kingdom: Guy Fawkes Day.
Feast day of Saints Elisabeth and Zachary, St. Galation, St. Bertilla of Chelles, and St. Episteme.
Events 1556 - Emperor Akbar defeated the Hindus at Panipat and secured control of the Mogul Empire.
1605 - King James I of England learned about the "Gunpowder Plot," Guy Fawkes' plan to blow up Parliament and England's Protestant government.
1844 - Democratic candidate James K. Polk defeated Whig party candidate Henry Clay to become the 11th President of the United States of America.
1872 - Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in a presidential election.
1895 - George B. Selden of Rochester, New York, received the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1911 - Calbraith P. Rodgers completed the first transcontinental airplane trip; it took 49 days and flew from New York City to Pasadena, California.
1911 - The first bombs were dropped from airplanes, by the Italians on Libya.
1912 - Woodrow Wilson was elected the 28th President of the United States of America, defeating Progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt and incumbent Republican William Howard Taft.
1914 - Cyprus was annexed by Britain on the outbreak of war with Turkey; France and Great Britain declared war on Turkey.
1919 - Actor Rudolph Valentino married actress Jean Acker. The marriage lasted less than 6 hours.
1930 - Sinclair Lewis was the first American awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, for "Babbit".
1935 - Parker Brothers launched the game Monopoly.
1940 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term as he defeated Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie.
1956 - Troops from Britain and France landed in Egypt during fighting between Egyptian and Israeli forces around the Suez Canal; two days later a cease-fire was declared.
1968 - Richard M. Nixon became the 37th President of the United States of America, defeating Vice President Hubert Humphrey and third-party candidate George Wallace.
1968 - Shirley Chisholm of New York became the first African-American woman to be elected to the House of Representatives.
1969 - In Chicago, Bobby Seale, founder of the Black Panthers, was sentenced to four years in prison after being tried as a member of the "Chicago Eight;" they were a group of political radicals accused of conspiring to incite the riots that occurred during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1974 - Ella T. Grasso became the first woman governor (of Connecticut) to be elected without succeeding her husband.
1987 - Anti-Apartheid leader Goban Mbeki, an early leader of the African National Congress, was released from Robben Island prison after serving 24 years. Thabo Mbeki, who lived in exile during his father's imprisonment, was elected in June 1999 to succeed Nelson Mandela as South African president.
1994 - Former President Ronald Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer's disease.
1996 - Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismissed Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolved the National Assembly amidst charges of mismanagement and corruption in the government.
1996 - Bill Clinton was elected to a second term as President of the United States of America.
1999 - U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson declared Microsoft a monopoly.
2000 - Emperor Haile Selassie I was given an Imperial funeral by the Ethiopian Orthodox church.
Births 1855 - Eugene V. Debs, American Socialist leader, first president of the American Railway Union.
1885 - Will Durant, American author.
1912 - Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye), American actor and singer.
1913 - British actress Vivien Leigh.
1941 - Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter.
1943 - Sam Shepard, American actor-playwright.
1947 - Peter "Herman" Noone, English singer of the 1960s rock group Herman's Hermits.
1955 - Bernard Chazelle, French-born computer scientist.
1959 - Bryan Adams, singer and guitarist, born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Deaths 1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer.
1960 - Mack Sennett, American silent era film producer.
1979 - Al Capp, American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip "Li'l Abner."
1989 - Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-born classical pianist.
1990 - Meir Kahane, an American-born rabbi and founder of the far-right Kach movement, assassinated.
1991 - Fred MacMurray, American actor who appeared in more than one hundred movies.
2003 - Bobby Hatfield, American singer, best known as one-half of the Righteous Brothers singing duo.
2005 - John Fowles, British novelist and essayist.
2006 - Bülent Ecevit, four term Turkish Prime Minister.
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