Today in History - History - November 5th

1605Gunpowder Plot; attempt to blow up King James I while he opened Parliament. Plot discovered and Guy Fawkes caught and tortured. He and seven others were later executed

1932Benito Mussolini frees 16,000 convicts

1982George Harrison releases "Gone Troppo" album

1898Gerhart Hauptmann's "Fuhrmann Henschel" premieres in Berlin

1937Hitler informs his military leaders in a secret meeting of his intentions of going to war

1996Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is the unanimous choice as AL Rookie of

1925Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties

1500-6th Nov astronomer Copernicus observes a lunar eclipse in Rome

1956The Nat King Cole Show debuts on NBC, the first variety program to be hosted by an African-American

1955Mont Canadien Jean Beliveau scores 2nd fastest hat trick (44 seconds)

1960Tilda Swinton, London England, actress (Orlando)

1959Bryan Adams, Kingston Ontario, Canadian singer (Heaven)

1952Bill Walton, La Mesa California, NBA center (Portland Trailblazers, Boston Celtics)

1873Teddy Flack [Edwin], London, Australian athlete, double Olympic gold medallist in 1896, (d. 1935)

1940American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway marries journalist Martha Gellhorn

1941Writer and veterinary surgeon James Herriot (25) weds Joan Catherine Danbury

1930Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1858)

1942George M Cohan, father of musical comedy, dies of cancer at 64