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 as US President, and would win yet another presidential election in 1944, ending up serving a record 12+ years as US President.
On November 5, 1943, despite explicit orders from Allied and Axis commanders, four bombs from a bomber airplane were dropped on the Vatican.
On November 5, 2009, Fort Hood, Texas became the scene of the worst slaughter of U.S. military personnel at an American installation when Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist of all people, went on a murderous shooting spree that left 13 dead and 32 wounded.
On November 5, 2017, with President Donald J. Trump under fire from seemingly all sides (sometimes including us!), we took this opportunity to congratulate him on setting a fine example to the youth of America by neither smoking nor drinking alcohol.
On November 5, 2017, US citizen and former NRA shooting instructor, Stephen Willeford, stopped a mass murderer in his tracks when Willeford employed his own AR-15 style rifle to stop a gunman that had just shot and killed 26 people.
On November 5, 2017, Devin Patrick Kelley of New Braunfels, Texas went on a shooting rampage at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing 26 people and wounding another 20 victims in what was the worst mass shooting in the history of the State of Texas.
Crime thriller film fans, who are also fierce, strong, and fearless women, had their chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see The Girl in the Spider’s Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story on Monday, November 5, 2018 at 7:00 PM at Cinemark in Valley View, Ohio!
Crime thriller film fans of John Carroll University, who are also fierce, strong, and fearless women, had another chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see The Girl in the Spider’s Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story on Monday, November 5, 2018 at 7:00 PM at Cinemark in Valley View, Ohio!
On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 7:30PM, for some lucky individuals looking for some needed relief and entertainment after the election, KimMossPR hosted a virtual screening of Focus Feature’s Let Him Go starring Kevin Costner and Diane Lane.
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.
On November 5, 2021, the Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas, a rap fest, went horribly wrong when an crowd fueled by drugs and alcohol overwhelmed insufficient concert security and created a “crowd crush” that cost eight lives and injured over 300 people.
Question for students (and subscribers) to ponder: Which event that occurred on today’s date would you like to learn more about?
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Historical Evidence
For more information, please see…
Andrews, John and Matt Baker. Timeline of World History. Thunder Bay Press, 2020.
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