Following are some of the major events to have occurred on November 5:
1912 – Democrat Woodrow Wilson won the U.S. presidency, becoming the only
man to defeat two former presidents — William Howard Taft and Theodore
Roosevelt — in the same election.
1955 – French painter Maurice Utrillo died; he is known for his paintings of
the streets of Paris, particularly Montmartre.
1965 – Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith declared a state of emergency in
preparation for his unilateral declaration of independence from Britain in what
is now Zimbabwe.
1990 – Meir Kahane, American-born rabbi, who advocated expelling all Arabs
from Israel, was shot dead in New York.
1996 – Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was sacked by the country’s
president, who accused her government of corruption, nepotism and misrule.
2002 – Republicans re-captured control of the Senate in the U.S. midterm
election as well as retaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
2003 – Bobby Hatfield, the tenor half of the Righteous Brothers singing duo
who made “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” a worldwide hit, died. He
was 63.
2004 – Peru began a retrial of Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman, whose
conviction was annulled by Peru’s top court in 2003 after the repeal of
draconian anti-terror laws.
2009 – U.S. Army major firing two handguns kills 11 people and wounds 31
others at Fort Hood, Texas.
2013 – India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, carrying the Mars orbiter,
lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.
2017 – Gunman massacres more than two dozen people at the First Baptist
Church of Sutherland, Texas.
(Reuters)