On This Day — 5 November
2000s
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
1900s
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
1956
Suez Crisis: British and French paratroopers land in Egypt after a week-long bombing campaign.
Suez Crisis
1955
After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
Vienna State Opera
1950
Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.
Korean War
1945
The three-day anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania commence.
1945 anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania
1943
World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
Bombing of Rome in World War II
1940
World War II: The British armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay is sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer.
World War II
1940
Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1925
Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
Espionage
1917
Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow
1916
The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918)
1916
The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
Everett massacre
1914
World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
World War I
1913
King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.
Otto, King of Bavaria
1912
Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
Woodrow Wilson
1911
After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
Ottoman Empire
1800s
1898
Negrese nationalists revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros.
Negrenses
1895
George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
George B. Selden
1881
In New Zealand, 1600 armed volunteers and constabulary field forces led by Minister of Native Affairs John Bryce march on the pacifist Māori settlement at Parihaka, evicting upwards of 2000 residents, and destroying the settlement in the context of the New Zealand land confiscations.
New Zealand
1872
Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
Women's suffrage in the United States
1862
American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
American Civil War
1862
American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to death. Thirty-eight are ultimately hanged and the others reprieved.
American Indian Wars
1834
Founding of the Free University of Brussels by Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen.
Free University of Brussels (1834–1969)
1828
Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea (now the Peloponnese) ends when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula.
Greek War of Independence
1811
Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado rings the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement.
José Matías Delgado
Before 1800
1780
French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
Augustin de La Balme
1768
The Treaty of Fort Stanwix is signed, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768)
1757
Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
Seven Years' War
1688
Prince William III of Orange lands with a Dutch fleet at Brixham to challenge the rule of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland).
William III of England
1605
Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament, where he had planted gunpowder in an attempt to blow up the building and kill King James I of England.
Gunpowder Plot
1556
Second Battle of Panipat: Fighting begins between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the Hindu king at Delhi and the forces of the Muslim emperor Akbar.
Second Battle of Panipat
1499
The Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
Catholicon (trilingual dictionary)
1138
Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
Lý Anh Tông
1009
Berber forces led by Sulayman ibn al-Hakam defeat the Umayyad caliph Muhammad II of Córdoba in the Battle of Qantish.
Berbers