November 5
Today in America's Present Past
1592 | Cleric and educator Charles Chauncy was born.
1773 | War of Independence: John Hancock was elected as moderator at a town meeting that resolves that anyone who supports the Tea Act is an “Enemy to America.”
1780 | War of Independence: Colonel LaBalme was defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle representing British interests.
1779 | Painter Washington Allston was born.
1818 | General and politican Benjamin Butler was born.
1850 | Poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born.
1855 | Activist Eugene V. Debs was born.
1857 | Muckraker Ida Tarbell was born.
1862 | Civil War: After Lincoln fired McClellan, General Ambrose Burnside replaces was made head of Army of Potomac.
1862 | Civil War: The Battle at Barbee’s Crossroads, Virginia.
1869 | Entrepreneur Otis Tufts died.
1872 | Civil Rights: Susan B. Anthony voted illegally for Ulysses S. Grant.
1872 | Painter Thomas Sully died.
1872 | POTUS: Republican President Ulysses S. Grant was re-elected.
1885 | Historian Will Durant was born.
1889 | Civil Rights: Louisa Woosley was the first U.S. woman to be ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian denomination.
1895 | The first U.S. automobile patent was granted to George B. Selden for a gasoline-driven car.
1912 | POTUS: Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected President.
1916 | Civil Rights: Evert, Washington, labor “massacre.”
1917 | SCOTUS: The Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Louisville, Kentucky, ordinance requiring backs and whites to live in separate neighborhoods.
1920 | Economist Douglass North was born.
1921 | Cleric Antoinette Brown Blackwell died.
1930 | Sinclair Lewis wins the Nobel for literature for “Babbitt.”
1931 | Musician Ike Turner was born.
1935 | Parker Brothers launched the board game Monopoly.
1940 | POTUS: Democrat President Roosevelt was re-elected.
1940 |Ernest Hemingway wed Martha Gellhorn.
1942 | Entertainer George M. Cohan died.
1956 | TV: The “The Nat King Cole Show” debuted.
1967 | Vietnam War: U.S. liberates Loc Ninh, Vietnam.
1968 | POTUS: Republican Richard Nixon was elected President.
1968 | Actor Sam Rockwell was born.
1975 | Author Lionel Trilling died.
1979 | War on Terror: Iran’sAyatollah Khomeini declared the United States “The Great Satan.”
1977 | POTUS: George W. Bush wed Laura Welch.
1987 | SCPTUS: Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admits using marijuana, withdraws from consideration.
1988 | Music: “Kokomo” single by The Beach Boys from the film “Cocktail” hits Number One.
1988 | Cornell University confirms a graduate student is the source of a major computer sabotage known as the Morris Worm, the first computer virus.
1991 | Actor Fred MacMurray died.
1992 | Chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer defeated Soviet Boris Spassky.
1994 | Boxer George Foreman KOs Michael Moorer to win boxing Heavyweight championship.
1996 | POTUS: Democrat President Clinton was re-elected.
2006 | Boxer LaMar Clark died.
2024 | POTUS: Republican President Trump was re-elected.