TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Nov. 5, 1942

American showman and songwriter George M. Cohan died in New York at age 64.

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1605

The “Gunpowder Plot” failed as Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament.

1872

Suffragist Susan B. Anthony defied the law by attempting to cast a vote for President Ulysses S. Grant.

1912

Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected president, defeating Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt, incumbent Republican William Howard Taft and Socialist Eugene V. Debs.

1916

A dockside confrontation in Everett, Washington, between members of the Industrial Workers of the World and citizen-deputies erupted into gunfire that left at least five “Wobblies” and two deputies dead.

1935

Parker Brothers began marketing the board game “Monopoly.”

1940

President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office as he defeated Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie.

1956

Britain and France started landing forces in Egypt during fighting between Egyptian and Israeli forces around the Suez Canal.

1968

Republican Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Democratic Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and American Independent candidate George C. Wallace.