Today is Saturday, Nov. 5, the 310th day of 2016. There are 56 days left in the year. Daylight Saving Time ends Sunday at 2 a.m. locally; clocks go back an hour.
Today’s highlight:
On Nov. 5, 1916, the Everett Massacre took place in Washington when a dockside confrontation 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.
On this date:
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 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office as he defeated Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie.
In 1956, Britain and France started landing forces in Egypt during fighting between Egyptian and Israeli forces around the Suez Canal. (A cease-fire was declared two days later.)
In 1974, Democrat Ella T. Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.
In 1994, former President Ronald Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer’s disease.
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.
Ten years ago: Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for crimes against humanity.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Chris Robinson is 78. Actress Elke Sommer is 76. Singer Art Garfunkel is 75. Actor-playwright Sam Shepard is 73. Singer Peter Noone is 69. TV personality Kris Jenner is 61. Actress-comedian Mo Gaffney is 58. Actor Robert Patrick is 58. Singer Bryan Adams is 57. Actress Tilda Swinton is 56. Actress Tatum O’Neal is 53. Actress Judy Reyes is 49. Actor Seth Gilliam is 48. Actor Corin Nemec is 45. Rock musician Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) is 45. Country singer-musician Ryan Adams is 42. Actor Luke Hemsworth (TV: “Westworld”) is 36. Rock musician Kevin Jonas (The Jonas Brothers) is 29.
Thought for Today: “Examine what is said, not him who speaks.” — Arab proverb.
Associated Press
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