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On this day...
Guy Fawkes' Night. Feast day of Saints Elisabeth and Zachary, St
Galation, St Bertilla of Chelles, and St Episteme.
1854 The combined British and French armies defeated the Russians at
the Battle of Inkerman during the Crimean War.
1912 The British Board of Film Censors was appointed.
1914 Cyprus was annexed by Britain on the outbreak of war
with Turkey.
1919 Rudolph Valentino, the archetypal romantic screen
lover, married
actress Jean Acker; the marriage lasted less than six hours.
1927 Britain's first automatic traffic lights began
functioning, in Wolverhampton.
1968 Richard Nixon was elected 37th US President.
1990 Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the militant Jewish
Defense League
and Israel's extremist anti-Arab Kach party, was assassinated in a New
York City hotel.
Birthdays which occurred on November 5th:
1818 Benjamin F. Butler, Union general/presidential candidate
1849 Rui Barbosa, Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties
1855 Eugene V. Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
1857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker
1876 Raymond Duchamp-Villon, cubist sculptor (Head of Baudeaire)
1884 James Elroy Flecker, English poet/dramatist (Hassan)
1885 Will Durant, writer/historian (Story of Civilization)
1887 Paul Wittgenstein, Vienna Austria, left hand specialist pianist
1891 Earle (Greasy) Neale, NFL coach (Philadelphia Eagles)
1905 Joel McCrea South Pasadena California, actor (Marshal-Wichita Town)
1911 Roy Rogers, Cincinnati, cowboy (Happy Trails, Roy Rogers Show)
1912 Natalie Schaeffer, Rumson NJ, actress (Lovey Howell-Gilligan's Island)
1913 John McGiver, New York, actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show)
1913 Vivien Leigh, actress (Gone With Wind)
1915 Moe Biller, New York, labor union officer (AFL-CIO, Postal Workers)
1919 Myron Floren, Webster SD, accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1927 Robert Abernethy, Geneva Switzerland, Newscaster (NBC News Encore)
1930 Herb Edelman, Brooklyn, actor (Good Guys, Strike Force, 9 to 5)
1931 Ike Turner, singer/wife-beater (A Fool in Love)
1932 Arthur L. Liman, New York, trial lawyer (Oliver North)
1935 Dick Davalos, New York, actor (Jeff-The Americans)
1938 Chris Robinson, Florida, actor (Stanley, General Hospital, Another World)
1941 Patricia Harty, Washington DC, actress (Occasional Wife, Blondie)
1942 Art Garfunkel, New York, singer/actor (Sounds of Silence, Carnal Knowledge)
1942 Elke Sommer, Berlin, actress (Oscar, 10 Little Indians)
1943 Sam Shepard, US, actor/playwright (Frances, Crimes of the Heart)
1946 Patricia K. Kuhl, speech & hearing scientist
1947 Oleg Antropov, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic gold-1968)
1947 Peter Noone, rocker (Herman-Herman's Hermits-Silhouttes)
1952 Bill Walton, NBA center (Portland Trail Blazers, Boston Celtics)
1957 Jon-Erik Hexum, Tenafly NJ, actor (Voyager, Cover-up)
1959 Bryan Adams, Vancouver BC Canada, singer (Run To You)
1959 Rob Fisher, rocker (Climie Fisher-Love Changes)
1963 Andrea McArdle, Philadelphia, actress (Annie)
1963 Tatum O'Neal, Los Angeles, actress (Paper Moon, Little Darlings)
1969 Jennifer Guthrie, Willimantic Connecticut, actress (Dawn-General Hospital)
Deaths which occurred on November 5th:
1956 Art Tatum, pianist, dies at 46 in Los Angeles
1960 Ward Bond, actor, dies at 55
1969 Lloyd Corrigan, actor (Prof. McKillup-Hank), dies at 69
1974 Stafford Repp, actor (Chief O'Hara-Batman), dies at 56
1977 Guy Lombardo, orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne), dies in Houston at 75
1979 Al Capp, cartoonist (Lil' Abner), dies at 70
1982 Jacques Tati, actor/director, dies of pulmonary embolism
1989 Barry Sadler, singer (Green Berets), dies at 49 in Murfreesboro TN
1989 Vladamir Horowitz, pianist, dies at 85
1991 Fred MacMurray, actor (My Three Sons), dies at 84
1991 Robert Maxwell, billionaire publisher (NY Daily News)
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