November 5

Birthdays:

1967 ~ Judy Reys, American actress.

1963 ~ Tatum O’Neal, American actress.

1960 ~ Tilda Swantin, English actress.

1953 ~ Joyce Maynard, American author.

1952 ~ Bill Walton, American basketball player.

1948 ~ William Daniel Phillips, American physicist and recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics.

1943 ~ Sam Shepard (né Samuel Shepard Rogers, III, d. July 27, 2017), American playwright who became a reluctant star.  He died of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at age 73.

1941 ~ Art Garfunkel, American musician.

1934 ~ Jeb Stuart Magruder (d. May 11, 2014), American politician turned Presbyterian minister.  He was involved in the Watergate scandal and spent several years in prison.  After getting out of jail, he became a religious leader.  He died at age 79.

1931 ~ Ike Turner (né Izear Luster Turner, Jr., d. Dec. 12, 2007), American singer and songwriter.  He was the former husband of singer Tina Turner.  He died at age 76.

1920 ~ Douglass North (d. Nov. 23, 2015), American economist and recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.  He died 18 days after his 95^th birthday.

1913 ~ Lady Vivien Leigh (d. July 8, 1967), English actress, best known for her role as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind.  She died of tuberculosis at age 53.

1911 ~ Roy Rogers (né Leonard Franklin Slye, d. July 6, 1998), American actor and singer.  He died at age 86.

1885 ~ Will Durant (d. Nov. 7, 1981), American historian.  He and his wife, Ariel (1898 ~ 1881, wrote a series of books entitled The History of Civilization.  He died 2 days after his 96^th birthday.

1857 ~ Ida Tarbell (d. Jan. 6, 1944), American journalist and social activist.  She died at age 86.

1855 ~ Eugene V. Debs (d. Oct. 20, 1926), American politician and union leader.  He died 16 days before his 71^st birthday.

1854 ~ Paul Sabatier (d. Aug. 14, 1941), French chemist and recipient of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.  He died at age 86.

1851 ~ Charles Dupuy (d. July 23, 1923), Prime Minister of France.  He died at age 71.

1818 ~ Benjamin Butler (d. Jan. 11, 1893), Governor of Massachusetts.  He served as Governor from January 1883 until January 1884.  He was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire.  He died at age 74.

1607 ~ Anna Maria van Schurman (d. May 14, 1678), Dutch painter.  She died at age 70.

1549 ~ Philippe de Mornay (d. Nov. 11, 1623), French author.  He died 6 days after his 74^th birthday.

Events that Changed the World:

2011 ~ The Louisiana State University football team beat the University of Alabama Crimson Tide in a football gamed that was billed as "The Game of the Century", in a score of 9-6, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

2009 ~ U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan (b. 1970) went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13 and wounding 29 people.

1990 ~ Rabbi Meir Kahane (1932 ~ 1990) was shot and killed after giving a speech in New York.

1940 ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 ~ 1945) was elected to his third term as President of the United States.

1916 ~ The Everett Massacre occurred in Everett, Washington as political differences between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police lead to a shoot-out.

1912 ~ Woodrow Wilson (1856 ~ 1924) was elected as President of the United States.

1895 ~ George B. Selden (1846 ~ 1922) was granted the first US patent for an automobile.

1872 ~ Susan B. Anthony (1820 ~ 1906) voted for the first time.  She was later fined $100 for her action.

1862 ~ President Abraham Lincoln (1809 ~ 1865) removed General George B. McClellan (1826 ~ 1885) as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time.

1688 ~ The Glorious Revolution began when William of Orange (William III of England, 1650 ~ 1702) landed at Brixham.

1605 ~ The Gunpowder Plot was a plan to blow up England's House of Lords at the opening session of Parliament, was thwarted on this day.  The plot was devised by a group of Catholics to protest the government's treatment and hostility toward the Catholics.  Guy Fawkes (1570 ~ 1606) was the person most closely identified with the plot because he was hiding the explosives that would be used.  November 5 is known as Guy Fawkes Day because he was arrested on this date.  He is still burned in effigy today.

Good-Byes:

2015 ~ George Barris (né George Salapatas, b. Nov. 20, 1925), American car designer who custom-made cars and is best known for creating the Batmobile.  He died 15 days before his 90^th birthday.

2014 ~ Manitas de Plata (né Ricardo Baliardo, b. Aug. 7, 1921), French-Roma who became a superstar flamenco guitarist.  He died at age 93.

2010 ~ Jill Clayburg (d. Apr. 30, 1944), American actress.  She died of leukemia at age 66.

2005 ~ John Fowles (b. Mar. 31, 1926), British author best known for his novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman.  He died at age 79.

2000 ~ David Brower (b. July 1, 1912), American environmentalist and founder of the Sierra Club Foundation.  He died at age 88.

2000 ~ Jimmie Davis (né James Houston Davis, b. Sept. 11, 1899), American politician and 47^th Governor of Louisiana.  He served as Governor from May 1944 through May 1948.  He was also well known for his song, You Are My Sunshine.  He died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at age 101.

1991 ~ Robert Maxwell (né Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch, also known as Ian Robert Maxwell, b. June 10, 1923), Slovak-English publisher and politician.  He died at age 68 under mysterious circumstances, apparently from falling off his yacht.

1991 ~ Fred MacMurray (né Frederick Martin MacMurray, b. Aug. 30, 1908), American actor, best known for his role as the father on the television series, My Three Sons.  He died of pneumonia at age 83.

1990 ~ Meir Kahane (b. Aug. 1, 1932), Orthodox rabbi and American founder of the Jewish Defense League.  He was assassinated after giving a speech in Brooklyn.  He was 58 years old.

1989 ~ Vladimir Horowitz (b. Oct. 1, 1903), Ukrainian-born pianist.  He died at age 86 of a heart attack.

1979 ~ Al Capp (né Alfred Gerald Caplin, b. Sept. 28, 1909), American cartoonist.  His is best known for his comic strip Li’l Abner. He died in South Hampton, New Hampshire at age 70.

1977 ~ Guy Lombardo (né Gaetano Alberto Lombardo, b. June 19, 1902), Canadian violinist and bandleader.  He died at age 75.

1975 ~ Edward L. Tatum (b. Dec. 14, 1909), American geneticist and recipient of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  He died of heart failure at age 65.

1975 ~ Lionel Trilling (b. July 4, 1905), American critic and writer.  He died of abdominal cancer at age 70.

1960 ~ Johnny Horton (né John LaGale Horton, b. Apr. 30, 1925), American musician and singer, best known for his song, The Battle of New Orleans.  He was killed in a car accident at age 35.

1957 ~ Olive Dennis (b. Nov. 20, 1885), American engineer.  Many of her designs were innovations in the railroad industry.  She died 15 days before her 72^nd birthday.

1944 ~ Alexis Carrel (b. June 28, 1873), French surgeon and biologist.  He was the recipient of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  He died at age 71.

1942 ~ George M. Cohan (b. July 3, 1878), American actor, director, singer and dancer.  He died of cancer at age 64.

1933 ~ Walther von Dyck (b. Dec. 6, 1856), German mathematician.  He died a month after his 77^th birthday.

1930 ~ Christiaan Eijkman (b. Aug. 11, 1858), Dutch physician and pathologist.  He was the recipient of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  He died at age 72.

1879 ~ James Clerk Maxwell (b. June 13, 1831), Scottish physicist and mathematician.  He died of abdominal cancer age 48.

1873 ~ Mary Anna Custis Lee (b. Oct. 1, 1808), American wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.  She died at age 66.

1828 ~ Maria Feodorovna (née Sophia Marie Dorothea Auguste Luise, b. Oct. 25, 1759), Empress consort of Russia.  She was the wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia.  She died 11 days after her 69^th birthday.

1647 ~ Vincentio Reinieri (b. Mar. 30, 1606), Italian mathematician.  The crater Reiner on the Moon is named in his honor.  He died at age 41.