November 6th: This Day in History

 

Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history 

On this day in 1844, the Dominican Republic officially gained independence from Spain. On this day in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected to become the American president. This led to outrage in the slave states, and many would secede from the Union. The American Civil War followed shortly thereafter. One year after Lincoln was elected to the presidency, Jefferson Davis was elected as president of the Confederacy. Canada celebrated it's first Thanksgiving holiday on this day in 1879. On this day in 1903, the USA recognized the independence of Panama. In 1917 on this day, the Bolsheviks revolted in Russia. Then in 1941 on this day, Josef Stalin marked the occasion by celebrating the Revolution's anniversary. On this day in 1962, the United Nations officially condemns apartheid, the system of racial segregation then in place in white minority ruled South Africa.

Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:

On this day in the year 355, Emperor Constantine II crowned his cousin Julianus as the Keizer of Britain. In 1153 on this day, the Treaty of Wallingford (Oxfordshire) was signed between King Stephen and the Empress Maude. Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca became the first known European to set foot in Texas on this day in 1528. Zealand was hit by a heavy storm on this day in 1534. On this day in 1572, a supernova was observed in a constellation known as Cassiopeia. The Battle at Lutzen was fought on this day in 1632, with the allied Swedish/Saxon army beating the imperial armies. On this day in 1657, Brandenburg & Poland signed unity of Bromberg. King Carlos II of Spain came of age (at 15) on this day in 1676. In 1789 on this day, Pope Pius VI appointed Father John Carroll as the first Catholic Bishop in the United States.

The French tricolor flag, which came into existence during - and was a symbol of -the French Revolution.

On this day in 1792 during the French Revolution, the Battle at Jemappes was fought, where the French army defeated the Austrians.

1813 - Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain

1844 - Spain grants Dominican Rep independence

1850 - 1st Hawaiian fire engine

1850 - Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (SF Bay) reserved for military use

1860 - Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American President

1861 - Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate president

1862 - NY-SF direct telegraphic link forms

1863 - Battle of Rogersville TN

1864 - Battle of Cane Hill, AK

US President Abraham Lincoln 1864 - Battle of Droop Mountain, WV (Averell's Raid)

1865 - Maastricht-Venlo railway opens in Netherlands

1865 - American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.

1869 - 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)

1871 - Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa

1878 - Henrik Ibsens "Samfundets Stotter," premieres in Oslo

1879 - Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day

1883 - NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country championship race

1884 - British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea

1884 - Montreal Foot Ball Club (QFRU) defeats Toronto Argonauts (ORFU) 30-0 in 1st CRFU Championship game

1885 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada directed to close

1888 - Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats Pres Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes

1897 - Peter Pan opens in NY at Empire Theater

1900 - Battle at Bothaville: gen-mjr Charles Knox beats Boers

1900 - Pres William McKinley (R) 25th American President re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan. Assassinated 1901

25th US President William McKinley 1903 - USA recognizea independence of Panama

1906 - Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY Gov beats William Randolph Hearst

1908 - Leonid Andreyevs "Dui Nashey Zhizni," premieres in St Petersburg

1910 - SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage

1911 - Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico

1913 - Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in S Afr

1915 - 1st military flight in Neth East Indies (Tandjong Priok)

1915 - Sophokles Skouloudis forms Greek government

1917 - Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace

1917 - NY allows women to vote

1918 - Republic of Poland proclaimed

1918 - Supreme commander of the army Gen Cutters resigns

1919 - 1st Dutch radio program: Soirée Musicale with "Turf in you(r) ransel"

1923 - USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks"

1924 - Stanley Baldwin becomes PM of UK

Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi 1925 - Secret agent Sidney Reilly is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.

1928 - Clevelanders vote to build a stadium with city bonds

1928 - Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for pres

1928 - Colonel Jacob Schick patents 1st electric razor

1928 - Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king.

1932 - German election - KPD defeats NSDAP

1934 - NFL Philadelphia Eagles beat Cincinnati Reds 64-0

1935 - 1st test flight of British Hurricane aircraft

1935 - Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane

1936 - RCA displays TV for press

1936 - Terence Rattigan's "French Without Tears" premieres in London

1938 - 3 DiMaggio brothers play together for 1st time, charity all star game

1939 - WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st coml TV station, begins service

1939 - WRGB TV channel 6 in Schenectady-Alby-Troy, NY (CBS) 1st broadcast

1939 - World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau

32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1940 - Franklin Roosevelt re-elected US President

1941 - Einsatz group kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine

1941 - Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor

1941 - USA lends Soviet Union $1 million

1942 - Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews

1942 - Sukarno & Mohammed Hatta finds Ampat Serangkai

1943 - Russian troops land on Kertsj peninsula

1943 - Soviet forces reconquer Kiev

1943 - Stalin says: "The issue of German fascism is lost"

1945 - HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators

1949 - Greeks civil war ends

1950 - Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as VP/GM of Pittsburgh Pirates

1950 - Chinese offensive halts at Chongchon River, North Korea

1950 - King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India

1952 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's cantata "About our Fatherland," premieres

Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin 1953 - French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy

1953 - Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as manager of Balt Orioles

1953 - Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb," premieres

1955 - 11th Ryder Cup: US, 8-4 at Thunderbird Ranch & CC Calif

1955 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1956 - Holland & Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest Soviets in Hungary

1956 - Pres Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D)

1957 - "Rumple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 45 performances

1957 - Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France

1958 - AL announces that KC will play AL record 52 night games in 1959

1958 - Belgium government of Eyskens & Lilar forms

1958 - Wilber Snyder beats V Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ

1961 - US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith

1962 - BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote

1962 - Edward M Kennedy 1st elected (Sen-D-Mass)

1962 - Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts

1962 - Saudi Arabia proclaims abolition of slavery

1962 - UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa

1964 - WEIQ TV channel 42 in Mobile, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting

1966 - 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC)

1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open

1966 - Lunar Orbiter 2 launched

1967 - Bridge at Annabaai crashes on Willemstad, Curacao, kills 15

1967 - US launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon Nov 9

1968 - Nixon elected 37th pres of US, defeating Hubert Humphrey

1968 - Students of SF State Counsel go on strike

1969 - 1st Cy Young Award tie (Mike Cuellar, Balt & Denny McLain, Det)

1970 - Boog Powell wins AL MVP

1970 - Twins Jim Perry wins AL Cy Young Award

1971 - "Great Harp" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 7 performances

1971 - US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians

1973 - "Man With the Golden Girl" begins shooting

1973 - Abe Beame eleceted 1st Jewish mayor on NYC

1973 - Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit

1974 - Dodger Mike Marshall is 1st relief pitcher to win Cy Young Award

1975 - "Hello, Dolly" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 51 performances

1975 - 1st appearance of Sex Pistols

1976 - Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP

1976 - Former Twins relief ace Bill Campbell is 1st free-agent to sign with a new team, joining the Red Sox for $1 million over 4 years

1977 - "Hair" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 43 performances

1977 - 1st Emmy Sports Award presentation

1977 - 39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Ga

1978 - Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms government

1978 - Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule

1979 - Ayatolla Khomeini takes over in Iran

1981 - Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie to win a Cy Young Award

1981 - Larry Holmes TKOs Renaldo Snipes in 11 for heavyweight boxing title

1982 - Joe Altobelli succeeds Earl Weaver as Oriole manager

1983 - Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Sports Nippon Team Match Golf Tournament

1983 - Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, Calif

1983 - Tor Bay Buccaneers James Wilder rushes for 219 yards vs Minnesota Vikings

1983 - Turkey Turgut Özals Moederland party wins elections

US President & Actor Ronald Reagan 1984 - President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D)

1984 - Willie Hernandez wins AL MVP Award

1985 - 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands at Edwards AFB

1985 - Exploratory well at Ranger Tx, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil

1985 - M-19 guerrilla's occupies Palace of Justice Bogota Colombia

1985 - Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards Calif

1986 - Houston's Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young

1986 - President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill

1986 - Rev Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern

1987 - Roger Clemens wins consecutive Cy Young Awards

1988 - 18th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:07

1988 - 19th NYC Marathon won by Steve Jones in 2:08:20

1988 - Japan & MLB all stars played to a 6-6 draw (Game 2 of 7)

1988 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic

1988 - Steve Jones wins NY men's marathon; Grete Waitz 9th women's title

1989 - US marshals & FCC sieze pirate radio station WJPL in Brooklyn

1990 - Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame

1990 - Braves Dave Justice wins NL Rookie of Year

1990 - Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages

1990 - Guam Republican governor Joseph Ada re-elected

1991 - "Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" opens at Gershwin NYC for 32 perfs

1991 - Grand duke Vladimir Kirillovitsj returns to St Petersburg

1991 - Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii

1991 - Maximus 2.0 BBS released

1991 - Robert M Gates, becomes 15th director of CIA

1991 - Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party

1993 - Actor Howard Rollins arrested for drunk driving

Champion Boxer Evander Holyfield 1993 - Evander Holyfield beats Riddick Bowe in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

1993 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter at Belmont

1994 - 24th NYC Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:27:37

1994 - 25th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:11:21

1994 - Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of Tadzjikistan

1994 - Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Golf Cup

1995 - Art Modell officially announces Cleveland Browns are moving to Balt

1995 - Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with Palestinians

1996 - LA Dodger Todd Hollandsworth wins NL Rookie of Year

1997 - "Proposals," opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances

1997 - SF Giants manager Dusty Baker named NL Manager of the Year

1999 - Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.

2002 - 12 people are killed in a fire on board a train headed for Vienna from Paris.

2004 - An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 6 and injuring 150.

2005 - The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.

2005 - The military junta of Myanmar (Burma) begins moving its government ministries from Yangon to Pyinmana.

2012 - 5 people are shot at a poultry processing plant in Fresno, California

44th US President Barack Obama 2012 - Voters go to the polls for the US Presidential election with Barack Obama projected to claim an Electoral College victory

2012 - US territory Puerto Rico votes to become a US State

2012 - Green Moon wins the Melbourne Cup race at Flemington

1789 - Father John Carroll was appointed as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States of America.   1832 - Joseph Smith, III, was born. He was the first president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He was also the son of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism.   1851 - Charles Henry Dow was born. He was the founder of Dow Jones & Company.   1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth president of the United States.   1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected as the president of the Confederacy in the U.S.   1861 - The inventor of basketball, James Naismith, was born.   1869 - The first official intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick, NJ.   1913 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa.   1917 - During World War I, Candian forces take the village of Passchendaele, Belgium, in the Third Battle of Ypres.   1923 - Jacob Schick was granted a patent for the electric shaver.   1935 - Edwin H. Armstrong announced his development of FM broadcasting.   1952 - The first hydrogen bomb was exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.   1962 - The U.N. General Assembly adopts a resolution that condemned South Africa's racist apartheid policies. The resolution also called for all member states to terminate military and economic relations with South Africa.   1965 - The Freedom Flights program began which would allow 250,000 Cubans to come to the United States by 1971.   1967 - Phil Donahue began a TV talk show in Dayton, OH. The show was on the air for 29 years.   1975 - King Hassan II of Morocco launches the Green March, a mass migration of 300,000 unarmed Moroccans, that march into the nation of Western Sahara.   1977 - 39 people were killed when an earthen dam burst, sending a wall of water through the campus of Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia.   1983 - U.S. Army choppers dropped hundreds of leaflets over northern and central Grenada. The leaflets urged residents to cooperate in locating any Grenadian army or Cuban resisters to the U.S-led invasion.   1984 - For the first time in 193 years, the New York Stock Exchange remained open during a presidential election day.   1985 - Leftist guerrillas belonging to Columbia's April 19 Movement seized control of the Palace of Justice in Bogota.   1986 - Former Navy radioman John A. Walker Jr., was sentenced in Baltimore to life imprisonment. Walker had admitted to being the head of a family spy ring.   1986 - U.S. intelligence sources confirmed a story run by the Lebanese magazine Ash Shiraa that reported the U.S. had been secretly selling arms to Iran in an effort to secure the release of seven American hostages.   1989 - In the hopes of freeing U.S. hostages held in Iran, the U.S. announced that it would unfreeze $567 million in Iranian assets that had been held since 1979.   1990 - About 20% of the Universal Studios backlot in southern California was destroyed in an arson fire.   1991 - Kuwait celebrated the dousing of the last of the oil fires ignited by Iraq during the Persian Gulf War.   1995 - Art Modell, the owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced plans to move his team to Baltimore. (Maryland)   1995 - Mark Messier scored his 500th NHL goal.   1996 - Michael Jordan scored 50 points for the 29th time in his NBA career.   1998 - The Islamic militant group Hamas exploded a car bomb killing the two attackers and injuring 21 civilians.   1999 - Australian voters rejected a referendum to drop Britain's queen as their head of state.   2001 - In London, the "Lest We Forget" exhibit opened at the National Memorial Arboretum. Fred Seiker was the creator of the 24 watercolors. Seiker was a prisoner of war that had been forced to build the Burma Railroad, the "railway of death," for the Japanese during World War II.   2001 - In Madrid, Spain, a car bomb injured about 60 people. The bomb was blamed on Basque separatists.   2001 - Ten people were executed in Beijing, China. The state newspaper of China said that all of the people executed were robbers and killers aged 20-23.   2001 - Disney's "Mickey's Magical Christmas - Snowed In at the House Of Mouse" was released on video and DVD.  Disney movies, music and books



1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States.   1861 Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America.   1869 The first intercollegiate soccer game took place (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4).  1893 Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53.  1913 Mohandas Gandhi led a march of miners in South Africa. He was arrested three times in the first four days of the march.

The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:

http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php

http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/nov06.htm

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory

2024 Election: The Morning After

I had long felt a real dread towards the 2024 election. It literally started shortly after Biden's presidency, when Trump held another of his rallies. 

Right at that moment, I knew that the political drama surrounding Trump was not over. If there was one moment when I began to dread this year, and this particular election, that was it.

Next came four long years unlike any other that we have seen. A former president seemed to dominate the news cycle more than the sitting president did, often times. Despite all that we saw, it was clear that Trump's political career was far from done. Instead of fading from public view, like every other losing presidential nominee from both major parties had done in the past (at least in my lifetime), Trump seemed to get more exposure than ever. 

As this election neared, that sense of dread grew more intense. Compounding that was the strangeness of once again being one of the few people who simply could not share the optimism that it seemed most of my friends and more or less like-minded people had. It seemed that most of them felt a little too sure that Trump would not win another term, that his presidency was some sort of an aberration.

Despite Biden having won the 2020 election by over seven million votes, he only narrowly beat out Trump in many of the swing states, which he of course needed to clinch the Electoral College requirements. Very quickly, Biden was blamed for things which were largely out of his control, such as the frankly predictable inflation following the global coronavirus shutdown, as well as the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan (which it seems most people have forgotten had been Trump's timeline). Biden's poll numbers were simply never encouraging. So I felt worried long before his disastrous debate performance.

For a little while, it seemed that Kamala Harris had some real momentum. Early on after replacing Biden, she seemed like she just might be capable of capitalizing on that momentum, and maybe even opening up a decent lead.

Then it went away in September, rather inexplicably. 

From that point on, those interior alarms from that old sense of dread began to grow. Not for the first time, I began to dread the election. It suddenly felt like it we were racing towards it.

Before you knew it, Election Day was here. And while I feared it would result in a win for Trump, the numbers were more somehow more discouraging than even my admittedly skeptical expectations would have led me to believe. At the very least, I thought that those supposed battleground states would really be too close to call. But it was clear by midnight at latest that she was going to lose almost all of them. She lost Pennsylvania by a surprisingly wide margin. Ditto with Michigan. And Nevada. And North Carolina. And Wisconsin. 

Also, this time she did not even win the popular majority. For the first time, an outright majority of voters went for Trump.

Meanwhile, both the House and Senate appear to have gone to the Republicans. That means that Trump will have both Congress and the Supreme Court on his side.

Let's face it: the American people have spoken. It was not the result I wanted. However, this was not quite as shocking as 2016. I had a sinking feel in my gut back then, too. But when the election turned out as it did, it still came as a shock. That was not the case this time around. There was less shock value this time around. But what it lacked in shock value, it made up for in terms of hos depressing these results were. 

Sure enough, now we will get a second Trump presidency. Not surprisingly, there is a large measure of despair from many of the people who strongly opposed him. Some are expressing despair for what is considered an existential threat to our fragile American democracy.

Who am I to argue?

Bobby Kennedy Had One Quote Which Seems Especially True & Fitting For This Morning After Election

Months ago, I posted this quote from Bobby Kennedy that I intended to post on the day after the 2024 election, if it went the way that I had a sinking feeling it would.

There are times when I would dearly love to be wrong about certain things. Believe me, I would have loved to have been wrong about this.

However, the election went pretty much as I admittedly feared it would.

So before anything, it seemed fitting to post this quote from Bobby Kennedy - NOT the son who's apparently a staunch Trump supporter, mind you, but the one who should be remembered for better reasons - which seemed appropriate this morning:

“Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.” 

― Bobby F. Kennedy

Guy Fawkes Day - "Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November"

   

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Guy Fawkes Day, which is also known as Bonfire Night in Great Britain, falls on this day, November 5th, every year. It is in honor of Guy Fawkes, the man behind the 1605 "Gunpower Plot" to blow up Parliament (particularly the House of Lords), which was ultimately unsuccessful. Fawkes intended to kill every member of Parliament, as well as King James I.

To honor the memory of King James surviving this assassination attempt, he tradition of lighting a bonfire was established.

The meaning, however, has come to change. This is largely due to the comic book turned into popular movie, known as V for Vendetta. There, a highly educated and morally principled hero wearing a mask of Fawkes fights both crime, as well as a dictatorial government, borrowing heavily on a very different interpretation of the Gunpowder Plot.

This has come to represent the fight against tyrannical government all across the globe these days. With a generally increased awareness of nightmarish Orwellian totalitarianism in the style of his famous novel, 1984, people now view increased government surveillance and evidence of massive government corruption tantamount to a system that is entirely rigged against the people that the government is supposed to serve, the figure of Guy Fawkes, particularly as represented by the image of the mask of Fawkes worn by the hero in V for Vendetta, has come to represent more than just a rejection of any trust of faith in government, but an outright antagonistic resistance to it. It has come to be one of the main focal points of the modern underground political counterculture, and has been used generally to represent anonymous, and perhaps on some level, unanimous popular opposition to the increased surveillance and intrusion into our personal lives, even if the original meaning and celebration meant something entirely different.

Now, it seems to represent in the popular imagination resistance to government and sympathy towards Fawkes and others who have attempted resistance to government, rather than celebrating the survival of the king from an assassination attempt.

Remember the Fifth of November, indeed!

The Fifth of November   

   

Remember, remember!      

The fifth of November,      

The Gunpowder treason and plot;      

I know of no reason      

Why the Gunpowder treason      

Should ever be forgot!      

Guy Fawkes and his companions      

Did the scheme contrive,      

To blow the King and Parliament      

All up alive.      

Threescore barrels, laid below,      

To prove old England's overthrow.      

But, by God's providence, him they catch,      

With a dark lantern, lighting a match!      

A stick and a stake      

For King James's sake!      

If you won't give me one,      

I'll take two,      

The better for me,     

 And the worse for you.      

A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,      

A penn'orth of cheese to choke him,      

A pint of beer to wash it down,      

And a jolly good fire to burn him.      

Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!      

Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!      

Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!

The page where I got this particular version of the poem from (see link below) went on to explain some particulars, which were quite detailed, and which, again, seemed fitting to share here:

Perhaps most widely known in America from its use in the movie V for Vendetta, versions of the above poem have been wide spread in England for centuries. They celebrate the foiling of (Catholic) Guy Fawkes's attempt to blow up (Protestant controlled) England's House of Parliament on November 5th, 1605. Known variously as Guy Fawkes Day, Gunpowder Treason Day, and Fireworks Night, the November 5th celebrations in some time periods included the burning of the Pope or Guy Fawkes in effigy. 

This traditional verse exists in a large number of variations and the above version has been constructed to give a flavor for the major themes that appear in them. Several of the books referenced below cite even earlier sources.  

Lines 1-6 are as in Moore and Lloyd (1990; pg. 14). They differ from Chambers (1888; pg. 550) only in the third line ("There is..." instead of "I know of..."). "I know..." but not "I know of..." occurs in Thiselton-Dyer (1876; pg. 413, Northamptonshire).  

Lines 7-14 follow the order of the dialect version in Northall (1892, pg. 248, Lowsley). The wording used is from Thistleton-Dyer (1876, pg 413, Northamptonshire) for lines 7-10 and 13-14, and J.C.R (1857) for lines 11-12.  

Lines 15-20 are taken from Thiselton-Dyer (1876; pg. 414, Oxfordshire). They differ from Chambers (1888; pg 550) only in line 16 ("Victoria" instead of "King James").  

Lines 21-24 are taken from McDowall (1908) except that "roast" in line 24 has been replaced with the "burn" found in Hems (1908) and Thistelton-Dyer (1876, pg. 414, Oxfordshire). Hems differs in line 22 ("A pound..." instead of "A penn'orth"). Thiselton-Dyer differs in line 21 with "A penn'orth of bread to feed the Pope" instead of the hanging, and in line 24 with "...a good old faggot..." instead of "... a jolly good fire..."  

Lines 25-27 are taken from Thiselton-Dyer (1876, pg. 413, Northamptonshire), except that "Hollo" in lines 25 and 26 has been replaced by the "Holloa" in McDowall (1908), the last line of "Hurrah" has been replaced by what is found in J.C.R. (1857), and "king" has been capitalized. J.C.R. uses "Holla" instead of "Holloa" and has "make your voice ring" in the line 25 instead of the bells. McDowall has "Queen" instead of "King" in its version of line 26.  

While not all eight cited versions contain all five groupings of lines, the "verses" present in each of the eight appear relative to each other in the order used above.  

References:  Chambers, Robert. The Book of Days. London: W. & R. Chambers, 1888. 

Hems, Harry. The fifth of November: Guy Fawkes Celebrations. Notes and Queries, 1908; s10-X, 496-497. 

J.C.R. The fifth of November. Notes and Queries, 1857; s2-IV, 450-451. 

McDowall, S.S. The fifth of November: Guy Fawkes Celebrations. Notes and Queries, 1908; s10-X, 496. 

Moore, Alan & Lloyd, David. V for Vendetta. New York: DC Comics, Inc., 1990. 

Northall, G.F. English Folk-Rhymes. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1892. (As reissued by Detroit: Singing Tree Press, 1968). 

Thiselton-Dyer, Rev. T.F. British Popular Customs, Present and Past. London: George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, 1876. (As reissued by Detroit: Singing Tree Press, 1968.) 

This page can be cited as: 

Habing, B. (2006, November 3). The Fifth of November - English Folk Verse. Retrieved from http://www.potw.org/archive/potw405.html

http://www.potw.org/archive/potw405.html

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Video: Leeja Miller Explores Whether Trump Actually Qualifies as a Fascist

First of all, let me just say that I am not really comfortable yet comparing Trump to Hitler. Indeed, Leeja Miller makes this comparison in this video, so I do not want to condone it. Let's be clear: Hitler wrote a book declaring his beliefs and intentions before coming to power. In that book, he stated his belief that Jews were not real Germans, that he hated France, and that he intended to create new living space or breathing room for the Germans to the East, at the expense of the Slavic people, whom Hitler declared were inferior people. Then once in power, he and his Nazis killed millions of people, including six million Jews, building camps specifically for that purpose. Also, he was good on his word with his intention to expand Germany to the East, at the expense of Slavic people, and ultimately invaded the Soviet Union. For all intents and purposes, Hitler started World War II in Europe knowingly. 

In short, Hitler was a uniquely monstrous figure in history. While I do not like Trump, he is not quite on that level.

At least not yet.

That said, there is evidence that Trump is indeed a fascist. It reveals itself fairly frequently and consistently, such as when he "jokes" about becoming "president for life" and running for a third term, and all of that. He clearly wants and pursues more power for himself, always and forever. He advocated delaying the last election, and then basically set up an insurrection when he did not like or accept the results of that election. He focuses on things which divides the people of the country, to the point where the country has never felt more polarized in recent times. He constantly questions democratic processes, has referred to the media as "the enemy of the people," and has advocated his supporters using violence to get what he wants. When asked outright, he did not deny that he would be a dictator, although he claimed it would be only on "day one." And in this campaign, he outright claimed that he would focus on revenge during his second term, and stated his belief that immigrants were poisoning the blood of the American people. Perhaps most alarmingly (as if all of that was not alarming enough), he promised his supporters to just go out and vote this time, and then they would never need to do it again. Nobody is really sure what he meant by that, but I don't think anyone is exactly assured by this. It's not the normal thing that any typical politician would say.

So is Trump a fascist?

Here's a Leeja Miller video exploring the topic:

Yes, Trump Is A Fascist

'Apprentice' Show Producers Faked Trump's Image of Success, Now Regretful

Trump is a small man. I mean, he's small in mind, small in action, small in how he conducts himself publicly.

Yet, he casts a giant shadow over the country right now. It is my personal opinion that this country - which is still the world's leading superpower and had about 340 million people and incredible diversity - has become smaller in a very real sense as a result of Trump. 

Until we get past this pathetic man, we will continue to diminish. Our world standing has diminished, our future prospects have diminished, and our standing as a unified nation has fallen since the political rise of Trump. Frankly, I don't believe that any of this is even arguable to anyone with knowledge and serious objectivity. 

George Conway (formerly the husband of Kelly Ann Conway, a prominent member of Trump's 2016 campaign) once described Trump as a joke which had gone too far. I agree, but it feels also like a joke which the country is playing on itself. He is obviously unqualified, yet in large part, it is the mythology surrounding Trump which his supporters latch on to.

The thing is, it was indeed mythology, and not reality.

Now, some of the creators of the mythology - particularly from the successful television show "The Apprentice," find themselves regretting having helped to build the myth of Trump as a successful businessman, as well as having more empathy than he actually has in reality.

Below is the video of a couple of the producers from "The Apprentice" talking with regret at having created a monster, so to speak.

Take a look:

Bombshell allegations: 'Apprentice' faked Trump's success, Trump wanted Black vs. white contestants

November 5th: This Day in History

 

Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history 

On this day in 1556, the Mughal victory assured Akbar's ascension. On this day in 1605, the "Gunpowder Plot" attempted by Guy Fawkes failed when he was captured before he could blow up the English Parliament. Still, Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated every November 5th in Britain to celebrate his failure to blow up all the members of Parliament and King James I.  On this day in 1775, George Washington condemned the commemoration of Guy Fawkes. In 1862 on this day, 300 Santee Sioux were sentenced to death by hanging in Minnesota. On this day in 1994, former heavyweight champion George Foreman knocked out then heavyweight champion Michael Moore to become the oldest heavyweight champion in history.

Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:

1228 - Wu MeKuan, a collection of 48 Zen koans, compiled in China

1414 - Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens

1492 - Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from Indians of Cuba

1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (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 - St Felix Flood ravages Dutch coast and destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands

1556 - Akbar (14) succeeds his father Humajun as Sultan of Delhi

1556 - Battle at Panipat: Mogollegers beat hindu leader Hemu

1605 - Gunpowder Plot; attempt to blow up English Parliament. Plot uncovered and leader Guy Fawkes tortured and later executed

1630 - Spain & England sign peace treaty

1639 - 1st 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 1st "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

English Catholic Conspirator Guy Fawkes 1838 - Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation

1846 - Robert Schumann's 2nd Symphony in C, premieres

1854 - Crimean War: British & French defeat Russian force of 50,000

1862 - Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac

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

1872 - American women's right to vote advocate Susan B Anthony votes for Ulysses S. Grant

1872 - Ulysses S. Grant re-elected US president

1876 - Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Nyangwe

1881 - French government-Ferry resigns

1882 - Bedrich Smetana's "Ma Vlast," premieres

1883 - Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi's army destroys Egyptian army

1883 - Musical "Cordelia's Aspirations" premieres in 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

US President Ulysses S. Grant 1894 - Richard Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegels," premieres

1895 - 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden) for gasoline driven car

1895 - Edward, Prince of Wakes, says "We are all Socialists nowadays"

1895 - US state Utah accepts female suffrage

1898 - Gerhart Hauptmanns "Fuhrmann Henschel," premieres in Berlin

1911 - Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tipoli & Cyrenaica

1911 - Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, NY, Sept 17)

1912 - Arizona, Kansas & Wisconsin vote for female suffrage

1912 - Bulgarian troops in Constantinople blockade drinking water

1912 - Woodrow Wilson (D) defeats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) & Pres Taft (R)

1913 - Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria

1914 - Britain annexes Cyprus

1914 - Great Britain & France & Russia declares war on Turkey

1916 - Emperor Wilhelm II & Franz Jozef I establish the kingdom of Poland

1916 - Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage

US President Woodrow Wilson 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 Lousiville Ky ordiance requiring blacks & whites to live in separate areas

1919 - Ir à Steringa Idzerda begins hosting "soirée-musical" on Dutch radio

1922 - Demonstration for a Dutch University in Ghent

1925 - Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties

1927 - 10th PGA Championship: Water Hagen at Cedar Crest CC Dallas

1927 - Walter Hagen beats Joe Turnesa for 4th consecutive PGA title

1930 - Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt"

1932 - Benito Mussolini frees 16,000 criminals

1933 - Chicago Bears 30 game unbeaten streak ends to Patriots (10-0)

1933 - Spanish Basques vote for autonomy

1935 - Maryland Court of Appeals orders U of M to admit (black) Donald Murray

1935 - Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly

1936 - French writer Andre Gide criticizes Soviet regime

Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1937 - Hitler informs his military leaders in a secret meeting of his intentions of going to war

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

1940 - Pres FDR (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R)

1940 - Walter Johnson, won 416 games for Wash Senators, loses Maryland congressional race (R)

1941 - Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima leave Pearl Harbor

1942 - Nazi raid on Greek Jews in Paris

1942 - Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarez's final transmission

1943 - -6] Vatican bombed

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.

1946 - John F Kennedy (D-Mass) elected to House of Representatives

32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1950 - Cleveland Browns' Tommy James intercepts 3 passes, club record

1950 - Philippines president Quirino ends emergency crisis

1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1953 - Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke

1953 - Paul Searls saws a 32" log in 86.4 seconds

1953 - Terence Rattigans' "Sleeping Prince," premieres in London

1955 - Mont Canadien Jean Beliveau scores 2nd fastest hat trick (44 seconds)

1955 - New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria)

1955 - Date returned to in "Back to the Future" by Marty McFly

1956 - Britain & France land forces in Egypt

1956 - Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized

1956 - Israel liberates Sharm-el-Sheikh, reopening Gulf of Aqaba

1956 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Datis nuperrime

1957 - Mrs Nellie McGrail wins $574,658 on a 2½ cent soccer pool ticket

1958 - "Maria Golovin" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 performances

1958 - KGLD (now KSNG) TV channel 11 in Garden City, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast

1959 - AFL announced with 8 teams

1961 - India's premier Nehru arrives in NY

1961 - St Louis Cards Bill Stacy, returns 2 interceptions for TDs vs Dallas

36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson 1963 - US VP Lyndon B Johnson visits Netherlands

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

1966 - Brigham Young QB Virgil Carter sets NCAA record of 599 yards gained

1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1967 - ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disk

1967 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open

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

1967 - The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. The survivors include Bee Gee Robin Gibb.

1968 - 1st AL pitcher to win MVP, Denny McLain (wins unanimously)

1968 - Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for presidency

1971 - Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping

1971 - NBA's LA Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak

1972 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic

Singer-songwriter Robin Gibb 1973 - BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service

1974 - Dmitri Sjotakovitch completes Michelangelo-liederen

1974 - Ella Grasso (Ct) elected 1st woman US gov not related to previous gov

1974 - Walter E Washington, becomes 1st elected mayor of Wash DC

1975 - British government sends troops to Belize

1975 - Sao Tome & Principe adopts constitution

1976 - Balt Jim Palmer wins AL Cy Young Award

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)

1978 - Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

1978 - Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran

1978 - Oakland Raider's John Madden becomes 13th coach to win 100 NFL games

1979 - Iran government of Bazargan resigns

1979 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares US "The Great Satan"

1981 - Charles Fuller's "Soldier's Play," premieres in NYC

1981 - Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficing, conspiracy, & possession of cocaine

1982 - Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record)

1982 - George Harrison releases "Gone Troppo" album

1983 - NY Rangers & Quebec Nordiques both score in 1st 14 secs of 3rd period

1983 - Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moves overland to Dryden

1985 - "News" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 4 performances

1987 - "Into the Woods" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 764 performances

1987 - France performs nuclear test

1987 - Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic

1987 - South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed

1987 - Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine's musical "Into the Stars," premieres

1987 - Supreme Court nominee Douglas H Ginsburg admitted using marijuana

1988 - 1st NBA game at Bradley Center, Milw Bucks lose to LA Clippers 111-91

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)

1988 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Alysheba, Gt Communicator, Gulch, Is It True, Miesque, Open Mind, Personal Ensign at Churchill Downs

1989 - "Threepenny Opera" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 perfs

1989 - 19th NYC Women's Marathon won by Ingrid Kristiansen in 2:25:30

1989 - 20th NYC Marathon won by Juma Ikangaa in 2:08:01

1989 - Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record of 16 cons pass completions

1989 - Elaine Crosby wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic

1989 - US plays El Salvador, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup

1991 - Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan

1991 - Richard J Kerr, ends term as acting director of CIA

1992 - "Show Off" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances

1992 - Bobby Fisher beats Boris Spassky to with Chess title in Belgrade

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 time (55,291 km)

1994 - Yak-40 accident in north of Peru, 8 killed

1994 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Barathea, Cherokee Run, Concern, Flanders, One Dreamer, Tikkanen, Timber Country

Boxing Champ George Foreman 1994 - George Foreman (45) KOs Michael Moorer to win boxing HW championship

1995 - STS 73 (Columbia 18), lands

1995 - Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup Golf Tournament

1995 - 1st NBA game at General Motors Place, Vancouver Grizzlies beat Minn Timberwolves 100-98 in OT

1995 - André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Jean Chrétien; he is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.

1996 - Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is the unanimous choice as AL Rookie of

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

1997 - French court orders producer Jacques Charrier, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, to pay the former screen star $8,300 in damages

2000 - Emperor Haile Selassie I is given an Imperial funeral by the Ethiopian Orthodox church

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.

2009 - US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly 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





1605 - The "Gunpowder Plot" attempted by Guy Fawkes failed when he was captured before he could blow up the English Parliament. Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated every November 5th in Britain to celebrate his failure to blow up all the members of Parliament and King James I.   1844 - In California, a grizzly bear underwent a successful cataract operation at the Zoological Garden.   1872 - In the U.S., Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the presidential election. She never paid the fine.   1895 - George B. Selden received the first U.S. patent for an automobile. He sold the rights for $200,000 four years later.   1911 - Italy officially annexed Tripoli.   1935 - The game "Monopoly" was introduced by Parker Brothers Company.   1940 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office.   1944 - Lord Moyne, a British official, was assassinated by the Zionist Stern gang in Cairo, Egypt.   1946 - John F. Kennedy was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives at the age of 29.   1955 - The Vienna State Opera House in Austria formally opened.   1956 - British and French forces began landing in Egypt during the Suez Canal Crisis. A cease-fire was declared 2 days later.   1959 - The American Football League was formed.   1963 - Archaeologists found the remains of a Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland.   1974 - Ella T. Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut. She was the first woman in the U.S. to win a governorship without succeeding her husband.   1984 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the NFL had exceeded antitrust limits in attempting to stop the Oakland Raiders from moving to Los Angeles.   1986 - The White House reaffirmed the U.S. ban on the sale of weapons to Iran.   1987 - In South Africa, Goban Mbeki was released after serving 24 years in the Robben Island prison. He had been sentenced to life for treason against the white minority government of South Africa.   1998 - Scientists published a genetic study that showed strong evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child (Eston Hemings) of his slave, Sally Hemings. (for more information)   1990 - Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Kach movement, was shot to death after a speech at a New York Hotel. His assassin, Egyptian El Sayyid, was later convicted of the murder and was sentenced to life in prison for his part in the World Trade Center bombing.   1992 - Malice Green, a black motorist, was beaten to death in Detroit during a struggle with police. Two officers were later convicted in his death and sentenced to prison.   1994 - Former U.S. President Reagan announced that he had Alzheimer's disease.   1994 - George Foreman, 45, became boxing's oldest heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas, NV.   1998 - In the U.S., Chairman Henry Hyde of the Judiciary Committee asked President Clinton to answer 81 questions for the House impeachment inquiry.   1998 - The U.N. announced that the Taliban militia had killed up to 5,000 civilians in a takeover of an Afghani town.   1999 - A 12-day conference on global warming, attended by delegates from 170 nations, ended in Bonn, Germany.   1999 - Dennis Rodman (NBA) and Carmen Electra were both arrested and charged with battery and domestic violence in a hotel in Miami Beach, FL.   1999 - U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft Corp. enjoyed "monopoly power".   2001 - It was announced that European aircraft manufacturer Airbus and Dubai-based Emirates airlines set up a joint venture specializing in airline services.   2009 - At Fort Hood, near Kileen, TX, Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 people and wounded 30 others.

1605 The Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Parliament failed.  1872 Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for trying to vote in the presidential election (she was trying to vote for President Grant).  1895 George B. Selden of Rochester, N.Y., received the first U.S. patent for an automobile.  1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office when he defeated Wendell L. Willkie.  1968 The first black woman representative to serve in Congress, Shirley Chisholm, was elected.  1974 Ella T. Grasso became the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.  1989 Pianist Vladimir Horowitz died in New York at age 85.  1994 At 45, George Foreman, became the oldest heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas.  2011 Former Penn State defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, is arrested on charges of 40 counts of sexual abuse over a 15-year period.


The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:

http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php

http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/nov05.htm

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory