On this day: November 5th

On this day: November 5th

There are many and several events on this day in history. Read and discover what happened on this day: On this day: November 5th

1733: The first issue of the ‘New York Weekly Journal’ was published by John Peter Zenger, a colonial American printer and journalist. A year later, he was arrested on charges of libeling New York’s royal governor.
1872: In defiance of the law, Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time.
1895: A U.S. patent for an automobile is granted.
1911: Aviator C.P. Snow completed the first transcontinental flight across America, landing at Pasadena, California. He had taken off from Sheepshead Bay, New York, on September 17th and flew a distance of 3,417 miles.1935 – The board game Monopoly is first released.
1943: Vatican City bombed. Vatican City was bombed by a fascist Italian aircraft breaching the neutrality of Vatican during the second World War
1994: George Foreman becomes boxing’s oldest heavyweight champion at the age of 45.
1995: Assassination attempt on Canadian Prime Minister. André Dallaire tried to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.
2003: Green Valley Killer pleads guilty. Gary Ridgeway, a serial killer also known as the Green Valley Killer, plead guilty to killing 48 women in the 1980s and 1990s.
2004: The Disney/Pixar movie ‘The Incredibles’ is released.
2007: China’s first lunar satellite enters lunar orbit. The Chang’e 1, an unmanned lunar-orbiting spacecraft, sent the first pictures of the Moon on November 26.

2009: 13 killed at Ford Hood, Texas. Major Malik Hasan opened fire at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center in Fort Hood, Texas and killed 13 people, injuring 30.

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