November 5: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Tréguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
2. 1743 - Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.
3. 1831 - Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
4. 1872 - Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
5. 1895 - George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
6. 1912 - Woodrow Wilson is elected to the presidency of the United States.
7. 1925 - Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
8. 1986 - USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China - the first US Naval visit to China since 1949.
9. 2006 - Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982.
10. 2007 - China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon.
11. Famous Birthdays: Charles Chauncy (English-American clergyman and educator), Paul Sabatier (French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate), Fred Lawrence Whipple (American astronomer), Paul Wittgenstein (Austrian pianist), Jacqueline Auriol (French pilot)

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