Hankering For History: Events that happened today in history, Nov 5th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 5th!

1219	The port of Damietta falls to the Crusaders after a siege.
1556	The Emperor Akbar defeats the Hindus at Panipat and secures control of the Mogul Empire.
1605	Guy Fawkes is betrayed and arrested in an attempt to blow up the British Parliament in the “Gunpowder Plot.” Ever since, England has celebrated Guy Fawkes Day.
1653	The Iroquois League signs a peace treaty with the French, vowing not to wage war with other tribes under French protection.
1757	Frederick II of Prussia defeats the French at Rosbach in the Seven Years War.
1768	William Johnson, the northern Indian Commissioner, signs a treaty with the Iroquois Indians to acquire much of the land between the Tennessee and Ohio rivers for future settlement.
1814	Having decided to abandon the Niagara frontier, the American army blows up Fort Erie.
1840	Afghanistan surrenders to the British army.
1854	British and French defeat the Russians at Inkerman, Crimea.
1862	President Abraham Lincoln relieves General George McClellan of command of the Union armies and names Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside commander of the Army of the Potomac.
1872	Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in a presidential election.
1911	Calbraith P. Rodgers ends first transcontinental flight–49 days from New York to Pasadena, Calif.
1912	Woodrow Wilson was elected president, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt.
1914	France and Great Britain declare war on Turkey.
1917	General John Pershing leads U.S. troops into the first American action against German forces.
1930	Sinclair Lewis becomes the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel Babbit.
1935	Parker Brothers company launches “Monopoly,” a game of real estate and capitalism.
1940	President Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected for third term.
1956	Britain and France landed troops in Egypt during fighting between Egyptian and Israeli forces around the Suez Canal.
1968	Republican Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace.
1968	Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn, New York, becomes the first elected African American woman to serve in the House of Representatives.
1974	Ella Grasso of Connecticut became the first woman elected governor in the United States without succeeding her husband.
1994	Former President Ronald Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer’s disease.
1994	George Foreman became boxing’s oldest heavyweight champion at age 45 by knocking out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas.
1996	President Bill Clinton won a second term over former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.
1999	A federal judge declared Microsoft Corp. a monopoly.
2006	Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for 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.

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.