TODAY IN HISTORY

1605

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

1940

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

1968

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

2009

A shooting rampage at the Army’s Fort Hood in Texas left 13 people dead; Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death.