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Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 5 November.

1. Plot to blow up British parliment fails - 1st Guy Fawkes day
2. Guy Fawkes Day
3. John Hanson elected 1st 'Pres of the US in Congress assembled'
4. Susan B Anthony arrested for attempting to vote
5. 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden)
6. 1st coast-to-coast airplane flight (NY-Pasadena with many stops)
7. ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disc
8. BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service
9. Ella Grasso Ct elected 1st woman US gov not related to previous gov
10. Cleve Cavs lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record)

These famous people were born on 5 November.

1. 1855 - Eugene V. Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
2. 1857 - Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was very unhappy)
3. 1876 - Raymond Duchamp-Villon, cubist sculptor
4. 1885 - Will Durant, writer, historian (Story of Civilization)
5. 1891 - Earle (Greasy) Neale, NFL coach (Philadelphia Eagles)
6. 1905 - Joel McCrea, Actor
7. 1912 - Roy Rogers, cowboy (Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger)
8. 1913 - Vivien Leigh, Frankly my dear I don't give a damn
9. 1931 - Ike Turner, AKA Mr. Tina Turner!
10. 1941 - Art Garfunkel, singer
11. 1941 - Patricia Hardy
12. 1942 - Paul Simon, singer, songwriter (Bridge Over Troubled Waters)
13. 1942 - Elke Sommer, in Berlin Germany
14. 1943 - Sam Shepard, American playwright
15. 1946 - Patricia K. Kuhl, speech and hearing scientist
16. 1952 - Bill Walton, NBA star (Portland Trail Blazers, Boston Celtics)
17. 1963 - Tatum O'Neal, in LA aka Mrs John Macenroe (Paper Moon)
18. 1963 - Andrea McArdle, in Phila - Sun will come out tommorrow