TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS FRIDAY, NOV. 5, the 309th day of 2021. There are 56 days left in the year.
On this date in 2017, a gunman armed with an assault rifle opened fire in a small south Texas church, killing more than two dozen people; the shooter, Devin Patrick Kelley, was later found dead in a vehicle after he was shot and chased by two men who had heard the gunfire. (An autopsy revealed that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.)
In 1605, the “Gunpowder Plot” failed as Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament. In 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony defied the law by attempting to cast a vote for President Ulysses S. Grant. (Anthony was convicted by a judge and fined $100, but she never paid the penalty.)
In 1935, Parker Brothers began marketing the board game “Monopoly.”
In 1968, Republican Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Democratic Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and independent George C. Wallace.
In 1992, Malice Green, a Black motorist, died after he was struck in the head 14 times with a flashlight by a Detroit police officer, Larry Nevers, outside a suspected crack house. (Nevers and his partner, Walter Budzyn, were found guilty of second-degree murder, but the convictions were overturned; they were later convicted of involuntary manslaughter.)
In 1994, former President Ronald Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer’s disease.
In 2003, President George W. Bush signed a bill outlawing the procedure known by its critics as “partial-birth abortion”; less than an hour later, a federal judge in Nebraska issued a temporary restraining order against the ban. (In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.)
In 2006, Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for crimes against humanity.
In 2009, a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas left 13 people dead; Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was later convicted of murder and sentenced to death. (No execution date has been set.) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Actor Harris Yulin is 84. Actor Chris Robinson is 83. Actor Elke Sommer is 81. Singer Art Garfunkel is 80. Singer Peter Noone is 74. TV personality Kris Jenner and actor Nestor Serrano are 66. . Singer Bryan Adams is 62. Actor Tilda Swinton is 61. Actor Michael Gaston is 59. Actors Tatum O’Neal and Andrea McArdle are 58. Rock singer Angelo Moore (Fishbone) is 56. Actor Judy Reyes is 54. Actors Seth Gilliam and Sam Rockwell, and rock musician Mark Hunter (James) are 53. Actor Corin Nemec and rock musician Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) are 50. Country singermusician Ryan Adams is 47. Actor Luke Hemsworth is 41. Rock musician Kevin Jonas (The Jonas Brothers) is 34. Actor Landon Gimenez is 18.