About November 5
November 5, 2022 is the 309th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 56 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 78 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 5
- 1499 –Publication of the Catholicon in Tréguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
- 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.
- 1688 –The Glorious Revolution begins: William of Orange lands at Brixham.
- 1743 –Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.
- 1757 –Seven Years’ War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
- 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.
- 1854 –Crimean War: The Battle of Inkerman.
- 1872 –Women’s suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
- 1895 –George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
- 1913 –King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.
- 1916 –The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
- 1925 –Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first “super-spy” of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
- 1937 –Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring “living space” for the German people.
- 1970 –Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
- 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.
- 1996 –President of Pakistan Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan.
- 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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