5 November
Notable Births
Matty Beniers
b. 2002
American ice hockey player (born 2002)
Takehiro Tomiyasu
b. 1998
Japanese footballer (born 1998)
Trey Lyles
b. 1995
Canadian-American basketball player (born 1995)
Astou Ndour-Fall
b. 1994
Spanish basketball player (born 1994)
Odell Beckham Jr.
b. 1992
American football player (born 1992)
Marco Verratti
b. 1992
Italian footballer (born 1992)
Flume (musician)
b. 1991
Australian electronic musician (born 1991)
Jon Gray
b. 1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Shōdai Naoya
b. 1991
Japanese sumo wrestler
D. J. Kennedy
b. 1989
American basketball player (born 1989)
Yannick Borel
b. 1988
French fencer (born 1988)
Virat Kohli
b. 1988
Indian cricketer (born 1988)
Kevin Jonas
b. 1987
American musician (born 1987)
Jason Kelce
b. 1987
American football player (born 1987)
O. J. Mayo
b. 1987
American basketball player (born 1987)
BoA
b. 1986
South Korean singer (born 1986)
Ian Mahinmi
b. 1986
French basketball player (born 1986)
Kasper Schmeichel
b. 1986
Danish footballer (born 1986)
Nodiko Tatishvili
b. 1986
Georgian singer (born 1986)
Jon Cornish
b. 1984
Canadian gridiron football player (born 1984)
Notable Deaths
Ben Baldanza
d. 2024
American business executive (1961–2024)
Elwood Edwards
d. 2024
American voice actor (1949–2024)
Pat E. Johnson
d. 2023
American martial artist (1939–2023)
Aaron Carter
d. 2022
American singer (1987–2022)
Marília Mendonça
d. 2021
Brazilian singer and songwriter (1995–2021)
Geoffrey Palmer (actor)
d. 2020
British actor (1927–2020)
George Barris (auto customizer)
d. 2015
American automobile customizer (1925–2015)
Nora Brockstedt
d. 2015
Norwegian singer
Soma Edirisinghe
d. 2015
Sri Lankan businesswoman
Czesław Kiszczak
d. 2015
Polish general and politician, 39th Prime Minister of Poland
Hans Mommsen
d. 2015
German historian (1930–2015)
Manitas de Plata
d. 2014
Spanish flamenco guitarist (1921–2014)
Lane Evans
d. 2014
American politician (1951–2014)
Abdelwahab Meddeb
d. 2014
French-language writer (1946–2014)
Habibollah Asgaroladi
d. 2013
Iranian politician (1932–2013)
Juan Carlos Calabró
d. 2013
Argentine actor and comedian
Charles Mosley (genealogist)
d. 2013
British genealogist (1948–2013)
Olympe Bradna
d. 2012
French actress (1920–2012)
Elliott Carter
d. 2012
American composer (1908–2012)
Leonardo Favio
d. 2012
Argentine singer, actor and filmmaker (1938–2012)
On This Day in History
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2024
Donald Trump becomes the first president of the United States to be elected to a non-consecutive second term in 132 years, since Grover Cleveland won the 1892 election.
Donald Trump
2021
The Astroworld Festival crowd crush results in 10 deaths and 25 people being hospitalized
Astroworld Festival crowd crush
2017
Devin Patrick Kelley kills 26 and injures 22 in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
Sutherland Springs church shooting
2015
An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing.
Iron ore
2015
Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Rona Ambrose
2013
India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
Mars Orbiter Mission
2010
JS Air Flight 201 crashes after takeoff from Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing all 21 aboard.
JS Air Flight 201
2009
U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.
Nidal Hasan
2007
China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
Chang'e 1
2007
The Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.
Android (operating system)
2006
Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shia Muslims.
Saddam Hussein
1996
Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly.
President of Pakistan
1996
Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.
Bill Clinton
1995
André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
André Dallaire
1991
Tropical Storm Thelma causes flash floods in the Philippine city of Ormoc, killing more than 4,900 people.
Tropical Storm Thelma
1990
Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
Meir Kahane
1986
USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao, China; the first US naval visit to China since 1949.
USS Rentz
1983
The Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
Byford Dolphin
1970
The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
1968
Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States.
Richard Nixon