TODAY IN HISTORY

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on November 05  

 

Reuters


1912 - Democrat Woodrow Wilson won the U.S. presidency, becoming the only man to defeat two former presidents -- William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt -- in the same election.

 

1955 - French painter Maurice Utrillo died; he is known for his paintings of the streets of Paris, particularly Montmartre.

 

1965 - Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith declared a state of emergency in preparation for his unilateral declaration of independence from Britain in what is now Zimbabwe.

 

1990 - Meir Kahane, American-born rabbi, who advocated expelling all Arabs from Israel, was shot dead in New York.

 

1996 - Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was sacked by the country's president, who accused her government of corruption, nepotism and misrule.

 

2002 - Republicans re-captured control of the Senate in the U.S. midterm election as well as retaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

 

2003 - Bobby Hatfield, the tenor half of the Righteous Brothers singing duo who made "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" a worldwide hit, died. He was 63.

 

2004 - Peru began a retrial of Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman, whose conviction was annulled by Peru's top court in 2003 after the repeal of draconian anti-terror laws.

 

2009 - U.S. Army major firing two handguns kills 11 people and wounds 31 others at Fort Hood, Texas.

 

2013 - India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, carrying the Mars orbiter, lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.

 

2017 - Gunman massacres more than two dozen people at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland, Texas.