November 5th
Events:
1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
1605 - Gunpowder Plot: A plot led by Robert Catesby to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is thwarted when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building.
1872 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
Births:
1911 - Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)
1913 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (d. 1967)
1941 - Art Garfunkel, American musician
Deaths: ('cause I wanted to know...)
1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer (b. 1878)
1975 - Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1909)
1985 - Spencer W. Kimball, twelfth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895)
Holidays:
New Zealand, United Kingdom and the province of Newfoundland & Labrador (Canada): Guy Fawkes night (also called Bonfire night; or Fireworks night): Failure of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament in 1605 is celebrated with bonfires and fireworks.
R.C. Saints: November 5 is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
St. Domninus
St. Galation
St. Magnus
Pope Zachary
1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
1605 - Gunpowder Plot: A plot led by Robert Catesby to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is thwarted when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building.
1872 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
Births:
1911 - Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)
1913 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (d. 1967)
1941 - Art Garfunkel, American musician
Deaths: ('cause I wanted to know...)
1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer (b. 1878)
1975 - Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1909)
1985 - Spencer W. Kimball, twelfth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895)
Holidays:
New Zealand, United Kingdom and the province of Newfoundland & Labrador (Canada): Guy Fawkes night (also called Bonfire night; or Fireworks night): Failure of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament in 1605 is celebrated with bonfires and fireworks.
R.C. Saints: November 5 is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
St. Domninus
St. Galation
St. Magnus
Pope Zachary