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| November 5 is the 310th day of the year. There are 56 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1492 Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from Indians of Cuba and corn-holing from his crew |
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| 1605 Al-Qatholics try to blow up the king and English Parliament. |
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| 1831 Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia. |
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| 1872 Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the presidential election. She never pays the fine, but 3 years later on the same date, she is arrested again for trying to vote. Obviously, she is a career criminal! |
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| 1935 Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly |
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| 1943 Allies bomb Al-Qatholics headquarters at the Vatican. Hooray, Allies! |
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| 1953 Terence Rattigans' "Sleeping Prince" premieres in London...oh the lucky actor who gets to wake him up with a "kiss" |
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| 1973 BART starts San Francisco-Daly City train shuttle service |
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| 1979 Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares US The Great Santa but a typo makes it “Satan” |
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| 1981 Charles Fuller's "Soldier's Play" premieres in New York City |
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| 1987 Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admits using marijuana...Happily, no one recognizes him after his sex change to become Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
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| 1987 "Into the Woods" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 764 performances |
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| 1994 George Foreman, 45, becomes boxing's oldest heavyweight champion when he grills Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas. |
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| 1999 U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson rules that Microsoft Corp. enjoyed "monopoly power". |
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| 2000 Emperor Haile Selassie I is given an Imperial funeral 25 years in the planning by the Ethiopian Orthodox church |
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| 2006 Saddam Hussein is caught with his pants down and is sentenced to death by hanging. |
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| 2007 Writers Guild of America goes on strike |
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| 1911 Roy Rogers [Leonard Slye], US cowboy actor/singer |
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| 1937 Harris Yulin, US actor |
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| 1941 Art Garfunkel, US singer/songwriter/actor/Paul Simon's boyfriend |
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| 1957 Jon-Erik Hexum, US actor/model/wet dream/a terrible shame |
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| 1958 Robert Patrick, US actor |
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| 1959 Bryan Adams, Canadian singer/guitarist/songwriter |
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| 1964 Tim Blake Nelson, US actor/director |
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| 1965 Kevin Williams, gay US pornographic legend/power bottom |
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| 1968 Sam Rockwell, maybe gay US actor |
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| 1968 Seth Gilliam, maybe gay US actor/OZ |
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| 1971 Corin Nemec [Joseph Charles Nemec IV], US actor/Parker Lewis |
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| 1975 Samuel Page [Elliott], maybe gay US actor |
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| 1981 Javier Pereira, Spanish actor http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0673144/ |
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| 1982 Jeremy Lelliott, US actor |
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| 1983 Andrew Hayden-Smith, gay English actor/television presenter |
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| 1960 Mack Sennett [Michael Sinnott], maybe gay Canadian director/producer (Keystone Kops), makes a joyful noise unto the Lord |
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| 1969 Lloyd Corrigan, gay US actor (Professor McKillup in 'Hank'), reaches the last outpost |
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| 1989 Barry Sadler, gay US Army/singer (Green Berets), trades in his beret |
