November 5
1605 - The Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Parliament failed.
1872 - Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for trying to vote in the presidential election.
1895 - George B. Selden of Rochester, New York, received the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1912 - Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected president, defeating incumbent President William Howard Taft (Republican), former President Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive Party) and Eugene V. Debs (socialist).
1935 - Parker Brothers began marketing their new board game, "Monopoly".
1940 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office when he defeated Republican Wendell L. Willkie.
1956 - Britain and France landed troops in Egypt during fighting between Egyptian and Israeli forces around the Suez Canal.
1968 - The first Black woman representative to serve in Congress, Shirley Chisholm, was elected.
1968 - Republican Richard M. Nixon was elected the 37th president of the United States, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace.
1974 - Ella T. Grasso of Connecticut became the first woman in the United States to win a gubernatorial election without succeeding her husband.
1994 - Former President Ronald Reagan disclosed that he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
1996 - President Bill Clinton was re-elected to a second term in office over Republican challenger Sen. Bob Dole.
1999 - A federal judge declared Microsoft Corp. was a monopoly.
2003 - President George W. Bush signed a bill outlawing a procedure known by its critics as "partial-birth abortion"; less than an hour later, a federal judge in Nebraska issued a temporary restraining order against the ban. (In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.)
2006 - Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for his crimes against humanity.
2009 - A shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas left 13 people dead; Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was charged in the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base.
2016 - Republican Donald Trump vowed to press into Democratic strongholds over the campaign’s final days as Hillary Clinton looked to an army of A-list celebrities and politicos to defend her narrowing path to the presidency.
2017 - A gunman armed with an assault rifle opened fire in a small South Texas church, killing more than two dozen people; the shooter, Devin Patrick Kelley, was later found dead in a vehicle after he was shot and chased by two men who heard the gunfire. (An autopsy revealed that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.)
2020 - With Democrat Joe Biden inching closer to victory, President Donald Trump lashed out in a statement from the White House briefing room, insisting that Democrats were trying to “steal the election” with “illegal votes”; there had in fact been no evidence that votes cast illegally were being counted, and no evidence of widespread fraud. ABC, CBS and NBC all cut away from Trump’s remarks, with network anchors saying they needed to correct falsehoods being disseminated by the president. Biden appealed for calm as the vote count continued, telling reporters, “The process is working.” Facebook banned a large group called “Stop the Steal” that supporters of Trump were using to organize protests against the presidential vote count; some members had called for violence.
Birthdays
20 - Alex Hook (actress)
23 - Sophi Knight (model)
25 - Josie Canseco (model)
26 - Madison McLaughlin (actress)
29 - Odell Beckham Jr. (football player)
34 - Kevin Jonas (singer)
38 - Alexa Chung (TV host)
41 - Luke Hemsworth (actor)
45 - Sebastian Arcelus (actor)
46 - Sam Page (actor)
47 - Ryan Adams (country singer)
53 - Sam Rockwell (actor)
53 - Seth Gilliam (actor)
54 - Judy Reyes (actress)
58 - Andrea McArdle (actress)
58 - Tatum O'Neal (actor)
59 - Michael Gaston (actor)
61 - Tilda Swinton (actress)
62 - Bryan Adams (singer)
63 - Robert Patrick (actor)
63 - Mo Gaffney (actor/comedian)
66 - Kris Jenner (reality star)
74 - Peter Noone (singer)
80 - Art Garfunkel (singer)
83 - Chris Robinson (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 5
1892 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 1-0 by forfeit.
1898 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 18-6.
1900 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 12-0.
1904 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 17-6.
1910 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 6-0.
1921 - Nebraska defeats Pittsburgh 10-0.
1927 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 47-13.
1932 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 14-13.
1933 - The Chicago Bears saw their 30-game unbeaten streak end.
1938 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 16-7.
1946 - A glass backboard broke shattered for the first time in an NBA game. Chuck Connors of the Boston Celtics was the man that broke it.
1949 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 27-13.
1955 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 10-7.
1955 - Jean Beliveau (Canadiens) scored the 2nd fastest hat trick. He did it in 44 seconds.
1959 - The American Football League was founded.
1960 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 31-0.
1966 - #6 Nebraska defeats Kansas 24-13.
1966 - BYU quarterback Virgil Carter sets new NCAA single-game records with 513 passing yards and 599 yards of total offense in a 53-33 win over Texas Western (now UTEP).
1967 - The New Orleans Saints record their first win in franchise history, 31-24 over the Philadelphia Eagles.
1977 - Marc Wilson of BYU breaks the NCAA single-game passing record with 571 yards.
1977 - #11 Nebraska defeats Missouri 21-10.
1981 - Mercury Morris (former Miami Dolphin) was sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking, conspiracy, and possession of cocaine.
1982 - The Cleveland Cavaliers set an NBA record by losing their 24th consecutive game.
1983 - #1 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 72-29.
1984 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the NFL had exceeded antitrust limits in attempting to stop the Oakland Raiders from moving to Los Angeles.
1988 - #7 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 51-16.
1994 - #1 Nebraska defeats Kansas 45-17.
1994 - At age 45, George Foreman became the oldest heavyweight boxing champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA title fight in Las Vegas.
1995 - Warren Moon (Minnesota Vikings) became the 6th player in NFL history to pass for 40,000 career yards; on the same day, John Elway of the Denver Broncos became the 7th player to record the milestone.
1997 - The Milwaukee Brewers became the first major league baseball team to switch leagues during the 20th century, moving from the American League to the National League.
2005 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 40-15.
2011 - Northwestern upsets #9 Nebraska 28-25.
2011 - Former Penn State defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, is arrested on charges of 40 counts of sexual abuse of minors over a 15-year period.
2016 - #6 Ohio State defeats #9 Nebraska 62-3.
1605 - The Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Parliament failed.
1872 - Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for trying to vote in the presidential election.
1895 - George B. Selden of Rochester, New York, received the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1912 - Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected president, defeating incumbent President William Howard Taft (Republican), former President Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive Party) and Eugene V. Debs (socialist).
1935 - Parker Brothers began marketing their new board game, "Monopoly".
1940 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office when he defeated Republican Wendell L. Willkie.
1956 - Britain and France landed troops in Egypt during fighting between Egyptian and Israeli forces around the Suez Canal.
1968 - The first Black woman representative to serve in Congress, Shirley Chisholm, was elected.
1968 - Republican Richard M. Nixon was elected the 37th president of the United States, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace.
1974 - Ella T. Grasso of Connecticut became the first woman in the United States to win a gubernatorial election without succeeding her husband.
1994 - Former President Ronald Reagan disclosed that he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
1996 - President Bill Clinton was re-elected to a second term in office over Republican challenger Sen. Bob Dole.
1999 - A federal judge declared Microsoft Corp. was a monopoly.
2003 - President George W. Bush signed a bill outlawing a procedure known by its critics as "partial-birth abortion"; less than an hour later, a federal judge in Nebraska issued a temporary restraining order against the ban. (In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.)
2006 - Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for his crimes against humanity.
2009 - A shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas left 13 people dead; Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was charged in the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base.
2016 - Republican Donald Trump vowed to press into Democratic strongholds over the campaign’s final days as Hillary Clinton looked to an army of A-list celebrities and politicos to defend her narrowing path to the presidency.
2017 - A gunman armed with an assault rifle opened fire in a small South Texas church, killing more than two dozen people; the shooter, Devin Patrick Kelley, was later found dead in a vehicle after he was shot and chased by two men who heard the gunfire. (An autopsy revealed that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.)
2020 - With Democrat Joe Biden inching closer to victory, President Donald Trump lashed out in a statement from the White House briefing room, insisting that Democrats were trying to “steal the election” with “illegal votes”; there had in fact been no evidence that votes cast illegally were being counted, and no evidence of widespread fraud. ABC, CBS and NBC all cut away from Trump’s remarks, with network anchors saying they needed to correct falsehoods being disseminated by the president. Biden appealed for calm as the vote count continued, telling reporters, “The process is working.” Facebook banned a large group called “Stop the Steal” that supporters of Trump were using to organize protests against the presidential vote count; some members had called for violence.
Birthdays
20 - Alex Hook (actress)
23 - Sophi Knight (model)
25 - Josie Canseco (model)
26 - Madison McLaughlin (actress)
29 - Odell Beckham Jr. (football player)
34 - Kevin Jonas (singer)
38 - Alexa Chung (TV host)
41 - Luke Hemsworth (actor)
45 - Sebastian Arcelus (actor)
46 - Sam Page (actor)
47 - Ryan Adams (country singer)
53 - Sam Rockwell (actor)
53 - Seth Gilliam (actor)
54 - Judy Reyes (actress)
58 - Andrea McArdle (actress)
58 - Tatum O'Neal (actor)
59 - Michael Gaston (actor)
61 - Tilda Swinton (actress)
62 - Bryan Adams (singer)
63 - Robert Patrick (actor)
63 - Mo Gaffney (actor/comedian)
66 - Kris Jenner (reality star)
74 - Peter Noone (singer)
80 - Art Garfunkel (singer)
83 - Chris Robinson (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 5
1892 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 1-0 by forfeit.
1898 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 18-6.
1900 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 12-0.
1904 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 17-6.
1910 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 6-0.
1921 - Nebraska defeats Pittsburgh 10-0.
1927 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 47-13.
1932 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 14-13.
1933 - The Chicago Bears saw their 30-game unbeaten streak end.
1938 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 16-7.
1946 - A glass backboard broke shattered for the first time in an NBA game. Chuck Connors of the Boston Celtics was the man that broke it.
1949 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 27-13.
1955 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 10-7.
1955 - Jean Beliveau (Canadiens) scored the 2nd fastest hat trick. He did it in 44 seconds.
1959 - The American Football League was founded.
1960 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 31-0.
1966 - #6 Nebraska defeats Kansas 24-13.
1966 - BYU quarterback Virgil Carter sets new NCAA single-game records with 513 passing yards and 599 yards of total offense in a 53-33 win over Texas Western (now UTEP).
1967 - The New Orleans Saints record their first win in franchise history, 31-24 over the Philadelphia Eagles.
1977 - Marc Wilson of BYU breaks the NCAA single-game passing record with 571 yards.
1977 - #11 Nebraska defeats Missouri 21-10.
1981 - Mercury Morris (former Miami Dolphin) was sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking, conspiracy, and possession of cocaine.
1982 - The Cleveland Cavaliers set an NBA record by losing their 24th consecutive game.
1983 - #1 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 72-29.
1984 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the NFL had exceeded antitrust limits in attempting to stop the Oakland Raiders from moving to Los Angeles.
1988 - #7 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 51-16.
1994 - #1 Nebraska defeats Kansas 45-17.
1994 - At age 45, George Foreman became the oldest heavyweight boxing champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA title fight in Las Vegas.
1995 - Warren Moon (Minnesota Vikings) became the 6th player in NFL history to pass for 40,000 career yards; on the same day, John Elway of the Denver Broncos became the 7th player to record the milestone.
1997 - The Milwaukee Brewers became the first major league baseball team to switch leagues during the 20th century, moving from the American League to the National League.
2005 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 40-15.
2011 - Northwestern upsets #9 Nebraska 28-25.
2011 - Former Penn State defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, is arrested on charges of 40 counts of sexual abuse of minors over a 15-year period.
2016 - #6 Ohio State defeats #9 Nebraska 62-3.