1499 The Catholicon (from Greek Καθολικόν, meaning "universal") was published in Tréguier, Brittany, France on November 5, 1499. This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was written in 1464 by the Breton priest Jehan Lagadeuc. It was the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
1605 Guy Fawkes was discovered just after midnight on November 5, 1605. He was found hiding in a cellar beneath the Houses of Parliament guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder, a length of slow match and a lantern. Fawkes and his fellow plotters had planned to blow up the king during the opening of Parliament the following day. Fawkes was arrested and taken to the Tower of London where he was agonizingly tortured on the rack until he named his co-conspirators.
1605 Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes night, is a British celebration whose origins go back to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot on November 5, 1605. Since then the British have celebrated this escape from the Houses of Parliament being blown up. On November 5th every year, they light up bonfires, place effigies of Guy Fawkes on the fire and combine this with a firework display.
1605 The burning on November 5th of an effigy of Fawkes, known as a "guy," led to the use of the word "guy" as a term for "a person of grotesque appearance" and then to a general reference for a man, as in "some guy called for you." In the 20th century, under the influence of American popular culture, "guy" gradually replaced "fellow," "bloke," "chap" and other such words in that country; The practice gradually spread throughout the English-speaking world.
1688 By 1688, James II of England's attempts to restore Catholicism were alienating many of his subjects. When a son was born to him thus increasing the chances of a Catholic dynasty, a group of conspirators met to plot the overthrow of the king and invite his daughter Mary and her Dutch Protestant husband William of Orange to invade England. William of Orange landed with a Dutch fleet at Brixham, Devon on November 5, 1688. William and his men advanced to London unopposed deposing James II and claiming the throne.
1778 Giovanni Battista Belzoni, also known as The Great Belzoni, was born on November 5, 1778. The Italian joined a travelling circus and performed exhibitions of feats of strength and agility as a strongman. Belzoni was also a pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He discovered tombs, explored pyramids, found ancient artifacts, all while foiling assassination attempts, dodging bullets, and fighting the French army.
1850 The earliest form of cataract surgery was first found in ancient India and then introduced to other countries by the Indian physician Sushruta around 800 BC. Jacques Daviel was the first modern European physician to successfully extract cataracts from the eye in 1748. The first successful operation to remove a cataract was performed at London's Zoological Gardens on a grizzly bear on November 5, 1850. Cataracts were removed from both eyes.
1605 Guy Fawkes was discovered just after midnight on November 5, 1605. He was found hiding in a cellar beneath the Houses of Parliament guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder, a length of slow match and a lantern. Fawkes and his fellow plotters had planned to blow up the king during the opening of Parliament the following day. Fawkes was arrested and taken to the Tower of London where he was agonizingly tortured on the rack until he named his co-conspirators.
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| Discovery of the Gunpowder Plot & the Taking of Guy Fawkes (c. 1823) by Henry Perronet Briggs. |
1605 Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes night, is a British celebration whose origins go back to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot on November 5, 1605. Since then the British have celebrated this escape from the Houses of Parliament being blown up. On November 5th every year, they light up bonfires, place effigies of Guy Fawkes on the fire and combine this with a firework display.
1605 The burning on November 5th of an effigy of Fawkes, known as a "guy," led to the use of the word "guy" as a term for "a person of grotesque appearance" and then to a general reference for a man, as in "some guy called for you." In the 20th century, under the influence of American popular culture, "guy" gradually replaced "fellow," "bloke," "chap" and other such words in that country; The practice gradually spread throughout the English-speaking world.
1688 By 1688, James II of England's attempts to restore Catholicism were alienating many of his subjects. When a son was born to him thus increasing the chances of a Catholic dynasty, a group of conspirators met to plot the overthrow of the king and invite his daughter Mary and her Dutch Protestant husband William of Orange to invade England. William of Orange landed with a Dutch fleet at Brixham, Devon on November 5, 1688. William and his men advanced to London unopposed deposing James II and claiming the throne.
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| Equestrian portrait of William III by Jan Wyck, commemorating the landing at Torbay |
1778 Giovanni Battista Belzoni, also known as The Great Belzoni, was born on November 5, 1778. The Italian joined a travelling circus and performed exhibitions of feats of strength and agility as a strongman. Belzoni was also a pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He discovered tombs, explored pyramids, found ancient artifacts, all while foiling assassination attempts, dodging bullets, and fighting the French army.
1850 The earliest form of cataract surgery was first found in ancient India and then introduced to other countries by the Indian physician Sushruta around 800 BC. Jacques Daviel was the first modern European physician to successfully extract cataracts from the eye in 1748. The first successful operation to remove a cataract was performed at London's Zoological Gardens on a grizzly bear on November 5, 1850. Cataracts were removed from both eyes.
1895 George B. Selden was granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile on November 5, 1895.
Inspired by the huge internal combustion engine invented by George Brayton, which was displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, New York inventor George B. Selden began working on a smaller lighter version. He succeeded by 1878, some eight years before the public introduction of the Benz Patent Motorwagen in Europe, but there was a delay of 16 years before the patent was granted.
1911 Calbraith Perry Rodgers completed the first transcontinental airplane flight across the USA on November 5, 1911. Rodgers began the flight on September 17, 1911, taking off from Sheepshead Bay, New York and completed it 49 days later, when he landed at Tournament Park in Pasadena, California in front of 20,000 people.
1913 After a 5 year long construction project to build the 238-mile (383 km) Los Angeles Aqueduct, at the ceremony for the arrival of the first water at the end of the aqueduct on November 5, 1913, Chief Engineer William Mulholland's speech was nothing more than the words: "There it is. Take it."
1921 Antoinette Blackwell, the first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the United States, died on November 5, 1921. She was appointed in 1853 pastor by the First Congregational Church in South Butler, New York, but due to theological disagreements Blackwell resigned after less than a year and later joined the Unitarian church.
1925 British spy Sidney Reilly — played by Sam Neill in the TV series Reilly: Ace Of Spies — was executed by Soviet secret police in a forest near Moscow on November 5, 1925. In his last hours he wrote a diary on cigarette papers, highlighting Soviet interrogation techniques, which he had hoped to smuggle to British Intelligence.
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| Reilly's 1918 German passport |
1943 On the evening of November 5, 1943, the Vatican was accidentally bombed by Allied planes. This was a case of mistaken targeting, and the bombing was not intentional. The intended target was a railway bridge located near the Vatican, but due to navigational errors, the bombs fell on the Vatican itself. The incident resulted in damage to some Vatican buildings, including the Vatican railway station and a few other structures.
1956 Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam in 1956, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation. Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt to get back the Suez Canal with the initial Anglo-French assault taking place on Port Said on November 5, 1956. Despite being a military success and having minor losses, the Suez Crisis had so much political fallout that most historians consider it the end of Britain as a superpower.
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| Smoke rises from oil tanks beside the Suez Canal hit during the initial Anglo-French assault |
1994 Forty-five year old George Foreman became boxing's oldest heavyweight champion on November 5, 1994 when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of a Las Vegas, Nevada fight. Foreman dedicated his upset win to "all my buddies in the nursing home and all the guys in jail."
2007 To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush on November 5, 2007. The Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian honor in the United States, and Harper Lee was recognized for her significant contributions to American literature with this prestigious award.
2007 The Android mobile operating system was unveiled by Google on November 5, 2007. It was developed by a consortium of developers known as the Open Handset Alliance, with the main contributor and commercial marketer being Google. The HTC Dream (also known as the T-Mobile G1) was the first commercial Android device. It was launched in September 2008.
2017 A new World Land Speed Record on a public road was set on November 5, 2017 when an Agera RS driven by Niklas Lilja, achieved 445.6 km/h (276.9 mph) on a closed highway in Nevada. The record had previously been held since 1938. The record was broken again on October 10, 2020 by a production car, the SSC Tuatara, driven by Oliver Webb, who averaged 316 mph (509 km/h) during two runs on highway 160 in Southern Nevada.
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