11-05-2004, 07:34 AM
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November 5th
1605 ~ Gunpowder Plot: A plot by Guy Fawkes to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, found Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building.
1872 ~ Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony voted for the first time (she was later fined $100).
1892 ~ Birthday of J. B. S. Haldane, Geneticist.
1914 ~ United Kingdom annexed Cyprus, and with France declared war on the Ottoman Empire.
1930 ~ Sinclair Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1977 ~ Death of Guy Lombardo, Conductor.
1979 ~ Death of Al Capp, Cartoonist.
1989 ~ Death of Vladimir Horowitz, Pianist.
1990 ~ Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, was shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
1999 ~ Microsoft antitrust case: US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued a preliminary ruling that softwaremaker Microsoft had "monopoly power".
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