5 November

The **5t o November** is the 309t day o the year (310t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 56 days bidin.

## Events

* 1605 - Guy Fawkes ettles tae set aff the gunpouder for tae malafouster the Hooses o Pairlament in England.
* 1688 - William III o Ingland lands at Brixton, stairtin the "Glorious Revolution".
* 1844 - James K. Polk is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
* 1872 - Ulysses S. Grant is re-electit Preses o the Unitit States.
* 1912 - Woodrow Wilson is electit Preses o the Unitit States, ower William Howard Taft.
* 1940 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is electit tae a record third term as Preses o the Unitit States.
* 1943 - Warld War II: Bombs are droppit on Vatican Ceety.
* 1945 - Colombie jyns the Unitit Naitions.
* 1968 - Richard Nixon is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
* 1996 - Bill Clinton is re-electit Preses o the Unitit States, defeatin Bob Dole.
* 2006 - Umwhile Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is sentenced tae daith.
* 2007 - The Fowkrepublic o Cheenae's satellite Chang'e enters intae orbit around the Muin.
* 2009 - 13 fowk are kilt in a shuitin at Fort Hood, Texas, in the deadliest mass shuitin on a Unitit States militar installation.
* 2013 - Bill de Blasio is electit Mayor o New York Ceety.
* 2017 - Sutherland Springs kirk shuitin: 26 fowk are kilt in a shuitin at a Baptist kirk in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
* 2017 - The leaked Paradise Papers are published, revealin affshore financial dealins (incluidin tax avoidance) o celebrities, businessfowk, politeecians (an associates) an companies. The "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" shares the documents wi the Internaitional Consortium o Investigative Jurnalists.

## Births

* 1615 - Ibrahim o the Ottoman Empire (d. 1648)
* 1773 - Alexander Monro, Scots anatomist (d. 1859)
* 1787 - Daniel Fraser, Scots ingineer (d. 1849)
* 1787 - John Richardson, Scots naval surgeon, naituralist an Airctic splorer (d. 1865)
* 1854 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist (d. 1941)
* 1864 - Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Scots airtist (d. 1933)
* 1892 - J. B. S. Haldane, Scots scientist (d. 1964)
* 1913 - Vivien Leigh, Inglis actress (d. 1967)
* 1931 - Ike Turner, American sangster (d. 2007)
* 1936 - Uwe Seeler, German fitbawer
* 1941 - Art Garfunkel, American sangster (Simon & Garfunkel)
* 1950 - Thorbjorn Jagland, Norse politeecian
* 1952 - Oleh Blokhin, Ukrainian fitbawer an coach
* 1953 - Tricia Marwick, Scots politeecian
* 1959 - Bryan Adams, Canadian sangster
* 1960 - Tilda Swinton, Scots actress
* 1963 - Jean-Pierre Papin, French fitbawer
* 1980 - Christoph Metzelder, German fitbawer
* 1984 - Jim Thompson, Scots rugby union player
* 1986 - Kasper Schmeichel, Dens fitbawer
* 1997 - Greg Taylor, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1370 - Casimir III o Poland (b. 1310)
* 1774 - John Murray, 3rd Duke o Atholl, Scots peer an politeecian (b. 1729)
* 1879 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scots pheesicist (b. 1831)
* 1930 - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch medicinar an pathologist (b. 1858)
* 1944 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon (b. 1873)
* 1956 - Art Tatum, American pianist an componer (b. 1909)
* 1989 - Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-American pianist (b. 1903)
* 1997 - Isaiah Berlin, Latvie-born philosopher (b. 1909)
* 2006 - Bobby Shearer, Scots fitbawer (b. 1931)

## Halidays

* Guy Fawkes Nicht (Unitit Kinrick, New Zealand, Newfoundland an Labrador)

## Ootside airtins
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