| 1219 |
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The port of Damietta falls to the Crusaders after a siege. |
| 1556 |
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The Emperor Akbar defeats the Hindus at Panipat and secures control of the Mogul Empire. |
| 1605 |
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Guy Fawkes is betrayed and arrested in an attempt to blow up the British Parliament in the "Gunpowder Plot." Ever since, England has celebrated Guy Fawkes Day. |
| 1653 |
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The Iroquois League signs a peace treaty with the French, vowing not to wage war with other tribes under French protection. |
| 1757 |
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Frederick II of Prussia defeats the French at Rosbach in the Seven Years War. |
| 1768 |
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William Johnson, the northern Indian Commissioner, signs a treaty with the Iroquois Indians to acquire much of the land between the Tennessee and Ohio rivers for future settlement. |
| 1814 |
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Having decided to abandon the Niagara frontier, the American army blows up Fort Erie. |
| 1840 |
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Afghanistan surrenders to the British army. |
| 1854 |
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British and French defeat the Russians at Inkerman, Crimea. |
| 1862 |
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President Abraham Lincoln relieves General George McClellan of command of the Union armies and names Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside commander of the Army of the Potomac. |
| 1872 |
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Susan B. Anthony is arrested for trying to vote. |
| 1911 |
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Calbraith P. Rodgers ends first transcontinental flight–49 days from New York to Pasadena, Calif. |
| 1912 |
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Woodrow Wilson is elected 28th president of the United States. |
| 1914 |
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France and Great Britain declare war on Turkey. |
| 1917 |
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General John Pershing leads U.S. troops into the first American action against German forces. |
| 1930 |
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Sinclair Lewis becomes the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel Babbit. |
| 1935 |
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Parker Brothers company launches "Monopoly," a game of real estate and capitalism. |
| 1940 |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected for third term. |
| 1968 |
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Richard Nixon is elected 37th president of the United States. |
| 1968 |
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Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn, New York, becomes the first elected African American woman to serve in the House of Representatives. |
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Born on November 5 |
| 1855 |
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Eugene V. Debs, American Socialist leader and first president of the American Railway Union. |
| 1885 |
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Will Durant, historian and author. |
| 1913 |
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Vivien Leigh, British actress famous for her role as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind. |
| 1918 |
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George Sheehan, cardiologist well known for his book Running and Being. |
| 1942 |
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Art Garfunkel, American singer, one half of "Simon and Garfunkel." |
| 1943 |
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Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor. |
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