Today in History
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.
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.
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.
1995 Assassination attempt on Canadian Prime Minister
André Dallaire tried to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.
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
1960 Tilda Swinton
English actress
1959 Bryan Adams
Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actor
1948 Bob Barr
American politician
1941 Art Garfunkel
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor
1931 Ike Turner
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer
Deaths On This Day, November 5
2010 Antonio Cárdenas Guillén
Mexican drug lord, co-leader
1982 E. H. Carr
English historian, theorist
1979 Al Capp
American cartoonist
1956 Art Tatum
American pianist
1879 James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist
