On This Day, November 5: The Gunpowder Plot Foiled and Susan B. Anthony Votes
1556: At the Second Battle of Panipat, the Mughal army defeats Hemu, securing the throne of the 14-year-old emperor Akbar.
1605: The Gunpowder Plot is foiled. In the early hours of November 5, King James I learns the plot has been stopped: Guy Fawkes was found around midnight guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder beneath the House of Lords. The assassination plot, led by Robert Catesby, collapsed; Fawkes was tortured and executed on January 31, 1606. Parliament made November 5 a day of public thanksgiving in 1606, and Britain still marks Guy Fawkes Night with bonfires and fireworks.
1688: William of Orange lands in England, beginning the Glorious Revolution. 1757: Frederick the Great routs the French and Austrian armies at Rossbach.
1862: Two events on one day: President Abraham Lincoln removes Gen. George McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac, and the Dakota War trials conclude with more than 300 Dakota men sentenced to hang.
1872: Suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes illegally in the presidential election in Rochester, New York, and is later arrested — 48 years before American women won the constitutional right to vote.
1895: George Selden wins U.S. Patent No. 549,160 for his "road engine." 1912: Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th president in a landslide with 435 electoral votes to William Howard Taft's 8 and Theodore Roosevelt's 88.
1935: Parker Brothers introduces the board game Monopoly. 1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term. 1968: Richard Nixon edges Hubert Humphrey in one of the closest presidential elections in U.S. history.
1977: George W. Bush marries Laura Welch in Midland, Texas; both are 31.
1994: Two headlines on one day: Ronald Reagan, 83, announces in a handwritten letter that he has Alzheimer's disease, and George Foreman, 45, knocks out Michael Moorer in the 10th round in Las Vegas to become the oldest heavyweight champion in boxing history.
2006: Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death. 2007: Google unveils Android and the Open Handset Alliance. 2009: An Army major kills 13 people and wounds more than 30 at Fort Hood, Texas.
2013: India launches its Mars Orbiter Mission, Mangalyaan. 2024: Donald Trump is elected to a nonconsecutive presidential term, and the first openly transgender member of Congress is elected.
November 5 is also the United Nations' World Tsunami Awareness Day.
(Source: HISTORY)
Source: HISTORY
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