Today in History
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2009 13 killed at Fort Hood, Texas
Major Malik Hasan opened fire on the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13 people and injuring 30 others.
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2007 China’s first lunar satellite enters lunar orbit
The Chang’e 1, an unmanned lunar-orbiting spacecraft, sent the first pictures of the Moon on November 26.
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2003 Green Valley Killer pleads guilty
Gary Ridgeway, a serial killer, known as the Green Valley Killer, pleaded guilty to killing 48 women in the 1980s and 1990s.
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1995 Assassination attempt on Canadian Prime Minister
André Dallaire tried to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.
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1943 Vatican City bombed
Vatican City was bombed by a fascist Italian aircraft breaching the neutrality of the Vatican during the Second World War.
Births On This Day, November 5
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1960 Tilda Swinton
English actress
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1959 Bryan Adams
Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actor
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1948 Bob Barr
American politician
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1941 Art Garfunkel
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor
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1931 Ike Turner
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer
Deaths On This Day, November 5
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2010 Antonio Cárdenas Guillén
Mexican drug lord, co-leader
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1982 E. H. Carr
English historian, theorist
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1979 Al Capp
American cartoonist
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1956 Art Tatum
American pianist
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1879 James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist
