Summary of the Day ✨ 5 November (05/11)
Donald Trump broke a 132-year political precedent by winning a non-consecutive presidential term, while tragedy struck at multiple fronts as a crowd crush at Astroworld Festival claimed 10 lives, a Texas church shooting left 26 dead, and a Brazilian dam disaster resulted in at least 17 fatalities amid political transitions in both the US and Canada.
Historical Events 📜
- 2024: Donald Trump becomes the first president of the United States to be elected to a non-consecutive second term in 132 years, since Grover Cleveland won the 1892 election.
- 2021: The Astroworld Festival crowd crush results in 10 deaths and 25 people being hospitalized
- 2017: Devin Patrick Kelley kills 26 and injures 22 in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
- 2015: An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing.
- 2015: Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
- 2013: India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
- 2010: JS Air Flight 201 crashes after takeoff from Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing all 21 aboard.
- 2009: U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.
- 2007: China’s first lunar satellite, Chang’e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
- 2007: The Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.
- 2006: Saddam Hussein, the 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 their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shia Muslims.
- 1996: Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly.
- 1996: Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.
- 1995: André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister’s wife locks the door.
- 1991: Tropical Storm Thelma causes flash floods in the Philippine city of Ormoc, killing more than 4,900 people.
Famous Births 👶
- 2002: Matty Beniers, American ice hockey player
- 1998: Takehiro Tomiyasu, Japanese footballer
- 1995: Trey Lyles, Canadian basketball player
- 1994: Astou Ndour-Fall, Senegalese-Spanish basketball player
- 1992: Odell Beckham Jr., American football player
- 1992: Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
- 1991: Flume, Australian DJ and producer
- 1991: Jon Gray, American baseball player
- 1991: Shōdai Naoya, Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1989: D. J. Kennedy, American basketball player
- 1988: Yannick Borel, French fencer
- 1988: Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
- 1987: Kevin Jonas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
- 1987: Jason Kelce, American football player
- 1987: O. J. Mayo, American basketball player
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2024: Ben Baldanza, American economist and business executive (born 1961)
- 2024: Elwood Edwards, American voice actor (born 1949)
- 2023: Pat E. Johnson, American martial artist and actor (born 1939)
- 2022: Aaron Carter, American singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer and actor (born 1987)
- 2021: Marília Mendonça, Brazilian singer (born 1995)
- 2020: Geoffrey Palmer, English actor (born 1927)
- 2015: George Barris, American engineer and car designer (born 1925)
- 2015: Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (born 1923)
- 2015: Soma Edirisinghe, Sri Lankan businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1939)
- 2015: Czesław Kiszczak, Polish general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of Poland (born 1925)
- 2015: Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (born 1930)
- 2014: Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (born 1921)
- 2014: Lane Evans, American lawyer and politician (born 1951)
- 2014: Wally Grant, American ice hockey player (born 1927)
- 2014: Abdelwahab Meddeb, Tunisian-French author, poet, and scholar (born 1946)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Christian feast day:
All Jesuit Saints and Blesseds - Christian feast day:
Blessed Bernhard Lichtenberg - Christian feast day:
Berthild of Chelles - Christian feast day:
Domninus - Christian feast day:
Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist - Christian feast day:
Galation - Christian feast day:
Blessed Gomidas Keumurdjian - Christian feast day:
Blessed Guido Maria Conforti - Christian feast day:
Blessed Hryhoriy Lakota - Christian feast day:
November 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Bank Transfer Day (United States)
- Colón Day (Panama)
- Guy Fawkes Night (United Kingdom, New Zealand and Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada), and its related observances:
West Country Carnival (English West Country) - Cinco de noviembre (Negros, Philippines)
- Kanakadasa Jayanthi (Karnataka, India)