EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST 11/5/20
- 868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.[1]
- 912 – Alexander becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.[2]
- 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch–Hanoverian army.[3]
- 1792 – Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into the Columbia River.[4]
- 1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.[5]
- 1813 – William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a route across the Blue Mountains, opening up inland Australia to settlement.[6]
- 1833 – The Lady of the Lake strikes an iceberg off Newfoundland and sinks with the loss of up to 265 passengers and crew.[7]
- 1846 – President James K. Polk asked for a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican–American War.[8]
- 1857 – Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.[9]
- 1858 – Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd state of the United States.[10]
- 1880 – Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.[11]
- 1889 – An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.[12]
- 1894 – Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.[13]
- 1910 – An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.[14]
- 1943 – World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.[15]
- 1945 – World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill is hit by two kamikazes[16]
- 1960 – Adolf Eichmann is captured by the Mossad in Argentina.[17]
- 1963 – Racist bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, disrupt nonviolence in the Birmingham campaign and precipitate a crisis involving federal troops.[18]
- 1970 – The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250 million in damage.[19]
- 1973 – Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg's charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times are dismissed.[20]
- 1985 – Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the Bradford City stadium fire.[21]
- 1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.[22]
- 1996 – After the aircraft's departure from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 on board.[23]
- 1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.[24]
- 1998 – India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.[25]
- 2000 – Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.[26]
- 2011 – An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hits Lorca, Spain.[27]
- 2013 – Fifty-two people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey.[28]
- 2014 – Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.[29]
- 2016 – One hundred and three people are killed in an ISIL bombing in Baghdad.[30]
Births
- 1571 – Niwa Nagashige, Japanese daimyō (d. 1637)[31]
- 1715 – Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, German organist (d. 1739)[32]
- 1752 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (d. 1840)[33]:94
- 1797 – José Mariano Salas, Mexican general and politician. President (1846, 1859) Regent during the Second Mexican Empire (d. 1867)[34]
- 1811 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician (d. 1893)[35]
- 1852 – Charles W. Fairbanks, American journalist and politician, 26th United States Vice President (d. 1918)[36]
- 1854 – Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (d. 1932)[37]
- 1869 – Archibald Warden, English tennis player (d. 1943)[38]
- 1871 – Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer and author (d. 1943)[39]
- 1875 – Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter (d. 1912)[40]
- 1881 – Al Cabrera, Spanish-Cuban baseball player and manager (d. 1964)[41]
- 1881 – Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1944)[42]
- 1881 – Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (d. 1963)[43]
- 1888 – Irving Berlin, Belarusian-American pianist and composer (d. 1989)[44]
- 1888 – Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral (d. 1945)[45]
- 1889 – Paul Nash, British painter (d. 1946)[46]
- 1890 – Willie Applegarth, English-American sprinter (d. 1958)[47]
- 1890 – Helge Løvland, Norwegian decathlete (d. 1984)[48]
- 1894 – Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)[49]
- 1895 – Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (d. 1978)[50]
- 1895 – William Grant Still, American composer and conductor (d. 1978)[51]
- 1896 – Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer and academic (d. 1955)[52]
- 1897 – Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961)[53]
- 1901 – Rose Ausländer, Ukrainian-English poet and author (d. 1988)[54]:7
- 1901 – Gladys Rockmore Davis, American painter (d. 1967)[55]
- 1902 – Edna Ernestine Kramer, American mathematician (d. 1984)[56]
- 1903 – Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player and manager (d. 1993)[57]
- 1904 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (d. 1989)[58]
- 1905 – Lise de Baissac, Mauritian-born SOE agent, war hero (d. 2004)[59]
- 1905 – Catherine Bauer Wurster, American architect and public housing advocate (d. 1964)[60]
- 1907 – Rip Sewell, American baseball player and coach (d. 1989)[61]
- 1911 – Mitchell Sharp, Canadian economist and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Finance (d. 2004)[62]
- 1911 – Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (d. 1985)[63]
- 1912 – Saadat Hasan Manto, Indian-Pakistani author and screenwriter (d. 1955)[64]
- 1916 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)[65]
- 1918 – Richard Feynman, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)[66]
- 1921 – Robin Barbour, Scottish minister and author (d. 2014)[67]
- 1921 – Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician (d. 2016)[68]
- 1924 – Antony Hewish, English astronomer and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[69]
- 1925 – Edward J. King, American football player and politician, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2006)[70]
- 1927 – Bernard Fox, British actor (d. 2016)[71]
- 1927 – Gene Savoy, American explorer, author, and scholar (d. 2007)[72]
- 1930 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist and academic (d. 2002)[73]
- 1930 – Stanley Elkin, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1995)[74]
- 1932 – Valentino Garavani, Italian fashion designer[75]
- 1933 – Louis Farrakhan, American religious leader[76]
- 1934 – Jim Jeffords, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 2014)[77]
- 1934 – Jack Twyman, American basketball player (d. 2012)[78]
- 1935 – Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist and author (d. 2007)[79]
- 1937 – Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő, Hungarian Olympic and world champion foil fencer[80]
- 1938 – Narendra Patel, Baron Patel, Tanzanian-English obstetrician, academic, and politician[81]
- 1941 – Eric Burdon, English musician[82]
- 1941 – Ian Redpath, Australian cricketer and coach[83]
- 1943 – Nancy Greene, Canadian skier and politician[84]
- 1944 – John Benaud, Australian cricketer[85]
- 1948 – Jack Cantoni, French rugby player (d. 2013)[86]
- 1948 – Nirj Deva, Sri Lankan-English politician[87]
- 1950 – Jeremy Paxman, English journalist and author[88]
- 1950 – Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (d. 2014)[89]
- 1951 – Ed Stelmach, Canadian farmer and politician, 13th Premier of Alberta[90]
- 1954 – John Gregory, English footballer and manager[91]
- 1955 – John DeStefano, Jr., American politician, 49th Mayor of New Haven[92]
- 1957 – Mike Nesbitt, Northern Irish journalist and politician[93]
- 1962 – Steve Bono, American football player[94]
- 1964 – Bobby Witt, American baseball player[95]
- 1964 – Floyd Youmans, American baseball player, coach, and manager[96]
- 1967 – Alberto García Aspe, Mexican footballer and manager[97]
- 1969 – Mitch Healey, Australian rugby league player and coach[98]
- 1969 – Simon Vroemen, Dutch runner[99]
- 1970 – Harold Ford, Jr., American lawyer and politician[100]
- 1970 – Jason Queally, English cyclist[101]
- 1972 – Tomáš Dvořák, Czech decathlete and coach[102]
- 1973 – Tsuyoshi Ogata, Japanese runner[103]
- 1974 – Darren Ward, English-Welsh footballer and coach[104]
- 1974 – Tony Warner, English born Trinidadian international footballer, goalkeeper and coach[105]
- 1975 – Francisco Cordero, Dominican-American baseball player[106]
- 1976 – Kardinal Offishall, American rapper and record producer/executive[107]
- 1977 – Pablo Gabriel García, Uruguayan footballer[108]
- 1977 – Victor Matfield, South African rugby player, coach, and sportscaster[109]
- 1977 – Bobby Roode, Canadian professional wrestler[110]
- 1978 – Laetitia Casta, French model and actress[111]
- 1982 – Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and singer (d. 2013)[112]
- 1983 – Matt Leinart, American football player[113]
- 1983 – Steven Sotloff, American-Israeli journalist (d. 2014)[114]
- 1983 – Holly Valance, Australian actress, singer and model[115]
- 1984 – Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer[116]
- 1986 – Abou Diaby, French footballer[117]
- 1986 – Miguel Veloso, Portuguese footballer[118]
- 1987 – Lim Seul-ong, South Korean singer and actor[119]
- 1987 – Monica Roșu, Romanian gymnast[120]
- 1988 – Jeremy Maclin, American football player[121]
- 1988 – Brad Marchand, Canadian ice hockey player[122]
- 1989 – Giovani dos Santos, Mexican international footballer, forward[123]
- 1989 – Cam Newton, American football player[124]
- 1992 – Thibaut Courtois, Belgian footballer[125]
- 1992 – Pablo Sarabia, Spanish footballer[126]
- 1993 – Maurice Harkless, American-Puerto Rican basketball player[127]
- 1994 – Hagos Gebrhiwet, Ethiopian runner[128]
- 1995 – Gelson Martins, Portuguese footballer[129]
- 1999 – Sabrina Carpenter, American singer and actress[130]
- 1999 – Kaitlyn Dias, American actress and voice artist[131]
Deaths
- 1610 – Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and mathematician (b. 1552)[132]
- 1686 – Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (b. 1602)[133]
- 1778 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708)[134]
- 1779 – John Hart, American lawyer and politician (b. 1711)[135]
- 1812 – Spencer Perceval, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)[136]
- 1848 – Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)[137]
- 1849 – Juliette Récamier, French businesswoman (b. 1777)[138]
- 1882 – Frederick Innes, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1816)[139]
- 1889 – John Cadbury, English businessman and philanthropist, founded the Cadbury Company (b. 1801)[140]
- 1908 – Charles Kingston, Australian politician, 20th Premier of South Australia (b. 1850)[141]
- 1916 – Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)[142]:xix
- 1918 – George Elmslie, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Victoria (b. 1861)[143]
- 1920 – James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1878)[144]
- 1920 – William Dean Howells, American novelist, literary critic, and playwright (b. 1837)[145]
- 1927 – Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1887)[146]
- 1929 – Jozef Murgaš, Slovak-American priest, architect, botanist, and painter (b. 1864)[147]
- 1938 – George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (b. 1858)[147]
- 1955 – Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)[148]
- 1960 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874)[149]
- 1963 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)[150]:169
- 1967 – James E. Brewton, American painter (b. 1930)[151]
- 1979 – Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)[152]
- 1981 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)[153]
- 1981 – Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)[154]
- 1983 – Zenna Henderson, American writer (b. 1917)[155]
- 1985 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist, created Dick Tracy (b. 1900)[156]
- 1986 – Fritz Pollard, American football player and coach (b. 1894)[157]
- 1988 – Kim Philby, British-Soviet double agent (b. 1912)[158]
- 1994 – Timothy Carey, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1928)[159]
- 2001 – Douglas Adams, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1952)[160]
- 2002 – Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1912)[161]
- 2002 – Bill Peet, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1915)[162]
- 2003 – Noel Redding, English bass player (b. 1945)[163]
- 2005 – Léo Cadieux, Canadian politician, 17th Canadian Minister of National Defence (b. 1908)[164]
- 2006 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer and actor (b. 1935)[165]
- 2007 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan ruler (b. 1913)[166]
- 2008 – John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (b. 1953)[167]
- 2009 – Abel Goumba, Central African physician and politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1926)[168]
- 2009 – Claudio Huepe, Chilean economist and politician, Chilean Minister Secretary-General of Government (b. 1939)[169]
- 2009 – Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda, Indian admiral (b. 1915)[170]
- 2010 – Doris Eaton Travis, American dancer and vaudevillian (b. 1904)[171]
- 2011 – Robert Traylor, American basketball player (b. 1977)[172]
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