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Events on November 5

• 1605 Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes, an English Catholic, and his fellow conspirators are arrested while attempting to blow up the English Parliament in order to kill the Protestant King James I, his family, the government, and all members of parliament.
• 1757 During the Seven Years' War, Prussia under Frederick the Great defeats the French under Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise, and the Imperial Execution Army in the Battle of Rossbach.
• 1816 At the Palais Thurn und Taxis in Frankfurt am Main, the Bundestag of the Federal Republic of Germany is opened.
• 1935 Parker Brothers acquires the rights to Charles Darrow's board game Monopoly.
• 1949 The Council of Ministers of the GDR chooses the lyrics to Risen from Ruins by Johannes R. Becher, with the melody by Hanns Eisler, as the national anthem.
• 1955 The Vienna State Opera, largely destroyed during the Second World War, is reopened with Beethoven's opera Fidelio.
• 1978 In Austria, the referendum on bringing the fully operational Zwentendorf nuclear power plant in Tullnerfeld, Lower Austria, into operation results in a hair's-breadth majority of 50.5% against bringing it into operation.
• 1980 Helmut Schmidt is elected Federal Chancellor for a third term by the German Bundestag.
• 1986 DENIC arranges for the .de record for the Internet identifier to be created in the IANA database.
• 1994 George Foreman becomes world champion in boxing again 20 years after the Rumble in the Jungle.
• 2002 American IV: The Man Comes Around is released. It is the last album released by Johnny Cash during his lifetime.
• 2018 According to NASA, the Voyager 2 space probe reaches the heliopause of the solar system and ventures into interstellar space.

Born on November 5

• 1887 Paul Wittgenstein, American pianist of Austrian origin
• 1893 Raymond Loewy, French industrial designer
• 1911 Roy Rogers, American singer and actor
• 1921 Margot Friedländer, Holocaust survivor and witness
• 1931 Ike Turner, American musician, music producer and songwriter
• 1940 Elke Sommer, German actress
• 1941 Art Garfunkel, American singer and actor
• 1950 Walter Plathe, German actor
• 1960 Tilda Swinton, British actress
• 1980 Christoph Metzelder, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „5. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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