A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 5th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On November 5, 1530, The St. Felix’s Flood destroyed the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands and killed over 100,000 people, making it the fifth deadliest flood in human history. On November 5, 1895, an unlikely candidate from Rochester, New York became the first American to patent an automobile. On November 5, 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to his third term…
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A Brief History On November 5, 2021, the Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas, a rap fest, went horribly wrong when a crowd fueled by drugs and alcohol overwhelmed insufficient concert security and created a “crowd crush” that cost eight lives and injured over 300 people. Digging Deeper An enormous crowd tried to tear down barricades and storm into the concert venue, creating a crushing wave, as well as the crowd already inside rushing the stage. Many accusations and lawsuits followed, but other concerts have ended badly as well. In 2003, a Rhode Island concert by Great White was the scene…
A Brief History On November 5, 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to his third term as US President, and would win yet another presidential election in 1944, ending up serving a record 12+ years as US President. Some other nations have had much longer serving heads of state or government of various titles, and here we list a few that exceeded our own FDR in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Digging Deeper Queen Elizabeth II of the UK, 1952-2022 Hirohito of Japan, 1926-1989 Fidel Castro of Cuba, 1959-2008 Malietoa Tanumafili II of Samoa, 1962-2007 Josef Stalin of the USSR,…
A Brief History On November 5, 2020, we screened an advance showing of the new motion picture starring Kevin Costner and Diane Lane, Let Him Go, a film set to open the next day. (Release was delayed from August 2020 to November 6, 2020, because of the coronavirus pandemic.) Set in the late 1950’s in the remote areas of Montana and North Dakota, the movie takes us to dark places of life altering events and decisions. Neither eye candy nor uplifting, the film is drama with a hint of horror. If you have read our previous movie reviews, you will…
A Brief History On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 7:30PM, for some lucky individuals looking for some needed relief and entertainment after the election, KimMossPR will be hosting a virtual screening of Focus Feature’s Let Him Go starring Kevin Costner and Diane Lane. Digging Deeper To reserve a spot for the online screening you must click on the link at http://focusfeaturesscreenings.com/H&HGO0520 which takes you right to the redeem pass page. Then you log in or sign up (which takes a minute if you do not have a Focus Feature’s TicktBox account) to get the virtual pass. The night of the screening you…
