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05 Nov 1228
Wu MeKuan a collection of 48 Zen koans compiled in China
05 Nov 1414
Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens
05 Nov 1499
Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (Brittany). Breton-French-Latin dictionary written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc was first Breton and French dictionary
05 Nov 1530
St Felix Flood ravages Dutch coast and destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands
05 Nov 1556
Battle at Panipat Mogollegers beat hindu leader Hemu
05 Nov 1639
First post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts
05 Nov 1678
Brandenburgse troops occupy Greifswald in Sweden
05 Nov 1743
Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury were organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
05 Nov 1757
Battle at Rossbach (7 year warFrench & Indian War)
05 Nov 1780
French-American force under Colonel LaBalme is defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle
05 Nov 1781
John Hanson elected first President of US in Congress assembled
05 Nov 1789
Fleeing slaves under Bonni attack military post on Suriname
05 Nov 1789
French National Meeting declares all citizens equal under law
05 Nov 1811
El Salvadors 1st battle against Spain for independence
05 Nov 1838
Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation
05 Nov 1854
Crimean War British & French defeat Russian force of 50000 at Inkerman
05 Nov 1862
Battle at Barbees Crossroads Virginia 51 casualties
05 Nov 1881
1600 police and volunteers attack Mori settlement at Parihaka in western Taranaki which had become the symbol of protest against the confiscation of Mori land New Zealand
05 Nov 1883
Battle at El Obeid Sudan Mahdis army destroys Egyptian army
05 Nov 1883
Musical Cordelias Aspirations premieres in NYC
05 Nov 1886
British Open Mens Golf Musselburgh Links David Brown beats fellow Scot Willie Campbell by 2 strokes
05 Nov 1887
Ottawa College (ORFU) defeats Montreal Football Club (QRFU) 10-5 to win the Dominion championship
05 Nov 1889
Louisa Woosley first women to be ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian denomination (US Cumberland Presbyterian Church).
05 Nov 1894
Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel premieres
05 Nov 1895
1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden) for gasoline driven car
05 Nov 1895
Edward Prince of Wales says We are all Socialists nowadays
05 Nov 1900
Under US military control since the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898 Cuba now calls its own constitutional convention
05 Nov 1911
Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya) takes Tripoli & Cyrenaica
05 Nov 1911
Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay NY Sept 17)
05 Nov 1912
Arizona Kansas & Wisconsin vote for female suffrage
05 Nov 1912
Bulgarian troops in Constantinople blockade drinking water
05 Nov 1914
Britain declares war on Turkey and annexes Cyprus occupied since 1878 the immediate reason is to keep it from being taken by Turkey
05 Nov 1916
Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general malesfemale suffrage
05 Nov 1916
The Everett Massacre takes place in Everett Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between IWW organizers and local police.
05 Nov 1917
Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
05 Nov 1917
Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Louisville Kentucky ordinance requiring backs & whites to live in separate areas
05 Nov 1919
Ir Steringa Idzerda begins hosting soire-musical on Dutch radio
05 Nov 1921
Soviet Russia signs a treaty with Mongolia temporarily supporting the new government against China and Japanese incursions
05 Nov 1930
Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for Babbitt
05 Nov 1933
Chicago Bears 30 game unbeaten streak ends to Patriots (10-0)
05 Nov 1935
Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of Maryland to admit Donald Murray a black man
05 Nov 1938
Ottawa Roughriders score on 5-man 4-lateral 65-yard punt return
05 Nov 1938
Rugers beats Princeton 1st time in 60 yrs as Rutgers Stad dedicated
05 Nov 1942
Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarezs final transmission
05 Nov 1944
German troops blow-up Heusden North Brabant city hall 134 die
05 Nov 1950
Cleveland Browns Tommy James intercepts 3 passes club record
05 Nov 1953
Nobel prize for physics awarded to Frederik Zernicke
05 Nov 1953
Terence Rattigans Sleeping Prince premieres in London
05 Nov 1955
Date returned to in Back to the Future by Marty McFly
05 Nov 1955
The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with Ludwig van Beethovens Fidelio after it was destroyed in World War II
05 Nov 1956
Britain and France land airborne forces at Port Said in Egypt escalating the Suez Crisis
05 Nov 1956
Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized
05 Nov 1956
Israel liberates Sharm-el-Sheikh reopening Gulf of Aqaba
05 Nov 1956
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Datis nuperrime
05 Nov 1957
Mrs Nellie McGrail wins 574658 on a 2 cent soccer pool ticket
05 Nov 1958
Maria Golovin opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 performances
05 Nov 1958
KGLD (now KSNG) TV channel 11 in Garden City KS (NBC) 1st broadcast
05 Nov 1961
St Louis Cards Bill Stacy returns 2 interceptions for TDs vs Dallas
05 Nov 1964
US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars no data returned
05 Nov 1966
Brigham Young QB Virgil Carter sets NCAA record of 599 yards gained
05 Nov 1967
ATS-3 launched by US to take first pictures of full Earth disc
05 Nov 1967
New Orleans Saints 1st NFL victory beat Philadelphia Eagles 31-24
05 Nov 1968
1st AL pitcher to win MVP Denny McLain (wins unanimously)
05 Nov 1971
Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping
05 Nov 1971
NBAs LA Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak
05 Nov 1972
Vice-President of Sinn Fin Maire Drumm is arrested in the Republic of Ireland
05 Nov 1973
BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service
05 Nov 1973
Arab producers announce 25 percent cut in oil production
05 Nov 1974
Ella Grasso (Ct) elected first woman US governor not related to previous governor
05 Nov 1974
Walter E Washington becomes first elected mayor of Washington D.C.
05 Nov 1976
New AL franchises in Seattle & Toronto fill up their rosters
05 Nov 1976
Pirates trade Manny Sanguillen & 100000 to As for mgr Chuck Tanner
05 Nov 1977
NCAA passing record set at 571 yards (Marc Wilson Brigham Young)
05 Nov 1978
Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
05 Nov 1979
Irans Ayatollah Khomeini declares US The Great Satan
05 Nov 1981
Charles Fullers Soldiers Play premieres in NYC
05 Nov 1981
Former Dolphin Mercury Morris is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficing conspiracy & possession of cocaine
05 Nov 1982
Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record)
05 Nov 1983
NY Rangers & Quebec Nordiques both score in 1st 14 secs of 3rd period
05 Nov 1983
Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moves overland to Dryden
05 Nov 1985
News opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 4 performances
05 Nov 1987
Into the Woods opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 764 performances
05 Nov 1987
Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
05 Nov 1987
Stephen SondheimJames Lapines musical Into the Stars premieres
05 Nov 1987
US Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admits using marijuana later withdraws from consideration
05 Nov 1988
1st NBA game at Bradley Center Milw Bucks lose to Atlnata Hawks 94-107
05 Nov 1988
1st NBA game at Miami Arena Miami Heat loss to LA Clippers 111-91
05 Nov 1988
1st NBA game at Palace of Auburn Hills Pistons beat Hornets 94-85
05 Nov 1988
Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage
05 Nov 1988
Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo (Game 1 of 7)
05 Nov 1988
Breeders Cup Horse Racing Churchill Downs winners Alysheba Gt Communicator Gulch Is It True Miesque Open Mind Personal Ensign
05 Nov 1989
Threepenny Opera opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 performances
05 Nov 1989
19th NYC Womens Marathon won by Ingrid Kristiansen in 22530
05 Nov 1989
20th NYC Marathon won by Juma Ikangaa in 20801
05 Nov 1989
Browns Bernie Kosar sets club record of 16 cons pass completions
05 Nov 1989
US plays El Salvador in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
05 Nov 1990
Reports of increasing Saudi petroleum production and lower world demand
05 Nov 1991
Richard J Kerr ends term as acting director of CIA
05 Nov 1992
Show Off opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
05 Nov 1992
Revenge Match of the 20th century Bobby Fisher defeats Boris Spassky to win in unofficial match in Belgrade
05 Nov 1993
1st NBA game in Alamodome San Antonio Spurs beat Warriors 91-85
05 Nov 1994
Space probe Ulyssus completes 1st passage behind the Sun
05 Nov 1994
Tony Rominger bicycles world record for distance covered in one hour for second time (55.291 km)
05 Nov 1994
Breeders Cup Horse Racing Churchill Downs winners Barathea Cherokee Run Concern Flanders One Dreamer Tikkanen Timber Country
05 Nov 1995
First NBA game at General Motors Place in Vancouver Grizzlies beat Minnesota Timberwolves 100-98 in OT
05 Nov 1997
2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns he is named AL Manager of Year
05 Nov 2003
37th Country Music Association Award Alan Jackson & Martina McBride wins
05 Nov 2007
Chinas first lunar satellite Change 1 goes into orbit around the Moon.
05 Nov 2009
US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan (US Army Medical Corps) killed 13 and wounded 43 at Fort Hood Texas in the largest mass shooting ever at a US military installation.
05 Nov 2010
Breeders Cup Horse Racing Churchill Downs Day 1 winners Eldaafer More Than Real Dubai Majesty Awesome Feather Shared Account Unrivaled Belle
05 Nov 2011
Breeders Cup Horse Racing Churchill Downs Day 2 winners Afleet Again Wrote Amazombie Regally Ready Calebs Posse St Nicholas Abbey Hansen Court Vision Drosselmeyer
05 Nov 2012
50 Syrian military personnel are killed by a suicide car bomb in Hama
05 Nov 2012
Widespread flooding in Nigeria kills 363 people and displaces 2.1 million
05 Nov 2013
4 people are killed after a 4-story building under construction collapses in Lagos Nigeria
05 Nov 2015
Collins Dictionary name binge-watch the word of the year followed by transgender
05 Nov 1556
Second Battle of Panipat Hindu Emperor of north India Hem Chandra Vikramaditya defeated by forces of Mughal Emperor Akbar who captures and later beheads Hem Chandra
05 Nov 1900
Under US military control since the end of the SpanishAmerican War in 1898 Cuba now calls its own constitutional convention
05 Nov 1966
BYU quarterback Virgil Carter sets new NCAA single-game records with 513 passing yards and 599 yards of total offence in 53-33 win against Texas Western in Provo Utah
05 Nov 1979
Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini describes the United States as The Great Satan amid accusations of imperialism and the sponsoring of corruption
05 Nov 1981
Former Dolphin Mercury Morris is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking conspiracy and possession of cocaine
05 Nov 1989
19th NYC Womens Marathon won by Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway in 22530
05 Nov 1882
Bedich Smetanas M Vlast premieres at ofn Palace Prague
05 Nov 1925
British secret agent Sidney Reilly (Ace of Spies) is executed in a forest near Moscow by the OGPU the secret police of the Soviet Union
05 Nov 1935
Parker Brothers launches the board game Monopoly
05 Nov 1961
NFL St Louis Cardinals Bill Stacy returns 2 interceptions for TDs vs Dallas Cowboys
05 Nov 1883
Edward Harrigans musical farce Cordelias Aspirations premieres at Theatre Comique NYC
05 Nov 1901
Debut concert of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Emil Mynarski program features Zygmunt Stojowskis Symphony in D minor (Op. 21)
05 Nov 1911
Italian forces take Tripoli & Cyrenaica declaring suzerainty over Ottoman-controlled Libya
05 Nov 1955
The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens after it was destroyed in World War II with Ludwig van Beethovens Fidelio
05 Nov 1958
Gian Carlo Menottis musical drama Maria Golovin opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC runs for 5 performances
05 Nov 1985
Paul Schierhorns rock musical News opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC runs for 4 performances
05 Nov 1988
Kokomo single by The Beach Boys from the film Cocktail goes to 1
05 Nov 1992
Revival of George Kellys 1924 play The Show Off starring Boyd Gaines and Pat Carroll opens at Criterion Center Stage Right NYC runs for 45 performances
05 Nov 1882
Bedich Smetanas complete M Vlast premieres conducted by Adolf ech at ofn Palace Prague Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic)
05 Nov 1966
The Monkees score their 1st Billboard No. 1 - Last Train To Clarksville written by Bobby Hart and Tommy Boyce
05 Nov 1985
Paul Schierhorns rock musical The News opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC runs for 4 performances
05 Nov 1988
Kokomo single by the Beach Boys from the film Cocktail tops the charts their first hit in 20 years and to date their latest
05 Nov 1630
Spain and England sign The Treaty of Madrid the peace treaty ending the Anglo-Spanish War (1625)
05 Nov 1889
Louisa Woosley is the first woman to be ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian denomination in the US (Cumberland Presbyterian Church)
05 Nov 1895
First US automobile patent granted to George B. Selden for a gasoline-driven car
05 Nov 1938
Paul Osborns stage drama On Borrowed Time closes at the Longacre Theatre NYC after 321 performances
05 Nov 1940
Allied convoy of 38 ships encounters German cruiser Admiral Scheer in the north Atlantic its escort HMS Jervis Bay sacrifices itself with the loss of 190 lives five other convoy ships sunk
05 Nov 1955
The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens after being destroyed in World War II with Ludwig van Beethovens Fidelio
05 Nov 1974
Dmitri Shostakovich completes Michelangelo songs
05 Nov 1981
Former NFL Miami Dolphins player Mercury Morris is sentenced to 20 years in prison for drug trafficking conspiracy and possession of cocaine reaches plea bargain while conviction was in appeal serves only 3-12 years
05 Nov 2015
Fundo dam in Brazil collapses killing about 23 causing a second dam to fail releasing a massive flood of mud down the Rio Dulce
05 Nov 2015
Japans 1st officially recognized same-sex couple union - Koyuki Higashi and Hiroko Matsuhara in Tokyo
05 Nov 1228
Wu MeKuan a collection of 48 Zen koans is compiled in China
05 Nov 1678
Sweden loses Greifswald to Brandenburg forces during Scanian War
05 Nov 1889
Louisa Woosley is the first woman ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian denomination in the US (Cumberland Presbyterian Church)
05 Nov 1895
First US automobile patent is granted to George B. Selden for a gasoline-driven car
05 Nov 1898
Gerhart Hauptmanns play Fuhrmann Henschel premieres in Berlin
05 Nov 1911
Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing the first transcontinental airplane flight in 49 days after leaving Sheepshead Bay New York on September 17
05 Nov 1935
Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of Maryland to admit Donald Murray a Black man as a student
05 Nov 1939
Dmitri Shostakovichs 6th Symphony premieres in Leningrad
05 Nov 1940
Former baseball player for the Washington Senators Walter Johnson loses Maryland congressional race (R)
05 Nov 1953
Paul Searls saws a 32-inch (0.81 m) log in 86.4 seconds
05 Nov 1954
Montreal Canadien center Jean Bliveau scores 3 goals in 44 seconds on future Hall of Fame goaltender Terry Sawchuk in 4-2 win v Boston Bruins 2nd fastest NHL hat trick
05 Nov 1957
Mrs. Nellie McGrail wins 574658 on a 2-cent soccer pool ticket
05 Nov 1961
Indias Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru arrives in NY
05 Nov 1968
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. re-elected as congressman from New York in general election
05 Nov 1968
MLB Detroit Tigers Denny McLain 1st AL pitcher to win MVP winning unanimously
05 Nov 1978
Oakland Raiders John Madden becomes 13th coach to win 100 NFL games
05 Nov 1985
CBS premieres Stone Pillow a dramatic made-for-TV movie starring Lucille Ball as a homeless woman
05 Nov 1987
An iceberg twice the size of Rhode Island breaks from Antarcticas Ross Ice Shelf
05 Nov 1988
Cornell confirms a graduate student is the source of a major computer sabotage known as the Morris Worm initially created as an experiment but spreading rapidly due to a programming error
05 Nov 1989
French McLaren driver Alain Prost withdraws early in wet Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide but wins his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship wins by 16 points from teammate Ayrton Senna
05 Nov 1994
Space probe Ulyssus completes the first passage behind the Sun
05 Nov 1994
Tony Rominger bicycles a world record for distance covered in one hour for the second time (55.291 km)
05 Nov 1996
Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is the unanimous choice as AL Rookie of the Year
05 Nov 1997
Davey Johnson is named AL Manager of Year two hours after resigning from the Baltimore Orioles
05 Nov 1997
French court orders producer Jacques Charrier ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot to pay the former screen star 8300 in damages
05 Nov 2014
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key rules out sending troops to fight against Islamic State but claims there are 40 New Zealanders on terror watchlist
05 Nov 2017
Bodies of 26 migrant teenage girls recovered from the Mediterranean another 400 migrants rescued
05 Nov 2017
French-American rock climber Brooke Raboutou wins 3 medals (2 silver 1 bronze) at the Pan American Youth Championship in Montreal Canada
05 Nov 2017
Gunman shoots 26 dead and injures 20 at a church in Sunderland Springs Texas