Every day of every year, something happens and makes it to the books of history. Surprising, huh?
History was made on November 5 through different events in different nations across the world. Let’s take a look!
- 1630 – Spain & England signed a peace treaty.
- 1725 – Spain & Austria signed a treaty in secret.
- 1872 – Ulysses S. Grant was re-elected as U.S. President
- 1895 – George B. Selden, received the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
- 1940 – U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office.
- 1943 – The Vatican City was bombed.
- 1945 – Colombia joined the United Nations.
- 1946 – John F. Kennedy was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives at the age of 29.
- 1950 – Philippines president Elpidio Quirino ended the emergency crisis.
- 1959 – The American Football League was formed.
- 1976 – USSR performed a nuclear test.
- 1986 – The White House reaffirmed the U.S. ban on the sale of weapons to Iran.
- 1987 – France performed a nuclear test.
- 1994 – Former U.S. President Reagan announced that he had Alzheimer’s disease.
- 1995 – There was an assassination attempt on the Canadian Prime Minister.
- 1996 – Bill Clinton was re-elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate Bob Dole.
- 1998 – The United Nations announced that the Taliban militia had killed up to 5,000 civilians in a takeover of an Afghani town.
- 2007 – China’s first lunar satellite entered the lunar orbit.
- 2018 – BBC opened its largest news bureau outside the UK in Nairobi, Kenya with 300 journalists.
- 2019 – The Chinese government set new rules for gaming for young people to try to curb gaming addiction.