What Happened on November 5?
2009 – 13 killed at Fort Hood, Texas
Major Malik Hasan opened fire at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center in Fort Hood, Texas and killed 13 people, injuring 30.
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 River Killer pleads guilty
Gary Ridgeway, a serial killer also known as the Green River 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 Vatican during the second World War
Births on 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 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