About November 5
November 5, 2025 is the 309th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 56 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 104 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 5
- 1530 –The St. Felix’s Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands.
- 1605 –The arrest of Guy Fawkes, found during a search of the Palace of Westminster, foils Robert Catesby’s plot to destroy the House of Lords and all within it.
- 1743 –Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.
- 1768 –Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
- 1811 –Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado, rang the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement
- 1831 –Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
- 1838 –The Federal Republic of Central America begins to disintegrate when Nicaragua separates from the Federation.
- 1862 –Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.
- 1911 –After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
- 1916 –The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
- 1917 –St. Tikhon of Moscow is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- 1943 –Bombing of the Vatican.
- 1945 –Colombia joins the United Nations.
- 1983 –Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
- 1987 –Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years of a life sentence for terrorism and treason.
- 1990 –Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
- 1995 –André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister’s wife locks the door.
- 2003 –Green River Killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of murder.
- 2006 –Saddam Hussein, 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 the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982.
- 2007 –China’s first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon.
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