It happened on this day, November 5
Events:
1605 – England arrests Guy Fawkes, an anniversary commemorated annually as “Bonfire Night”.
1630 – The war between England and Spain ends with the signing of the “Madrid Accords”.
1757 – Prussian armies, led by Emperor Frederick II, defeat the larger French armies in the “Battle of Rossbach” during the Seven Years' War between them.
1789 – The French National Assembly approves the law on equality between citizens.
1914 – The United Kingdom occupies Cyprus in cooperation with France and declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1918 – Imam Yahya Hamid al-Din enters Sanaa and the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen becomes an independent state from this date.
1937 – Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting during which he reveals his intention to create a land outlet for Germany, leading to the outbreak of World War II.
1944 – The Stern Organization assassinates British Minister Resident in Palestine, Lord Moyne.
1956 – French and British forces occupy the towns of Port Said and Port Fouad during the Tripartite Aggression against Egypt.
🌟 Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Nikolai Bulganin warned in letters to French Prime Minister Guy Mollier, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to cease military operations against the Egypt.
1967 – A coup in the Yemen Arab Republic overthrows Field Marshal Abdullah Al-Sallal during his visit to Baghdad and creates a presidential council consisting of three secretaries, Abdul Rahman Al-Eryani, Muhammad Ali Othman and Ahmed Muhammad Noman, and the formation of a government led by Mohsen Al-Aini.
1968 – Richard Nixon is elected President of the United States.
1974 – Speech by the King of Jordan, Hussein bin Talal, declaring the Jordanianization of the Kingdom and confirming that amendments will be made to the constitution and institutions, and that the West Bank is no longer under Jordanian sovereignty.
1979 – Khomeini declares the United States to be the “Great Satan.”
1980 – Ronald Reagan is elected president of the United States.
1989 – The Lebanese Parliament ratifies the Taif Agreement, signed by the Lebanese parties to end the civil war. During the same session, Representative René Moawad was elected President of the Republic after the position of President had been vacant since the end of the presidential term. Amin Gemayel's mandate about a year and two months ago.
1990 – Assassination of Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right “Kach Movement”, by Mr. Naseer.
2006 – Iraq's Supreme Criminal Court sentenced former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Awad Al-Bandar and Barzan Al-Tikriti to death by hanging.
2008 – Announcement of the victory of Democratic candidate Barack Obama by a wide margin over his Republican rival, John McCain, making Obama the forty-fourth president of the United States of America and its first president of African descent.
2009 – The United Nations General Assembly approves, by a majority of 114 votes to 18, with 44 abstentions, a draft resolution submitted by the Arab bloc to demand that Israel and the Palestinians open credible investigations into accusations contained in the Goldstone report regarding committing war crimes during the Gaza war.
2011 – Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud appoints Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz as Minister of Defense, succeeding his late minister Prince Sultan. He appoints Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz as governor of the Riyadh region, succeeding Prince Salman, and relieves Prince Abdulrahman bin Abdulaziz of his post as deputy defense minister and appoints Prince Khalid bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud like his successor.
2012 – Prince Muhammad bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is appointed Minister of the Interior of Saudi Arabia, succeeding Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
2013 – Indian unmanned spacecraft Mangalyaan launched to Mars.
2014 – The Lebanese Parliament extends its constitutional term, bringing its total term to double its initial mandate.
2017 – Death of Saudi Prince Mansour bin Muqrin and his companions in a plane crash in Asir.
🌟 More than 13 million financial documents related to foreign investments of many world leaders, politicians and celebrities have been leaked.
🌟 26 people were killed and 30 others injured in a shooting at a Baptist church in an unincorporated area of Sutherland, Texas, United States.
2018 – New US sanctions package against Iran takes effect.
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Births:
1271 – Mahmoud Ghazan, Sultan of Ilkhani.
1615 – Sultan Ibrahim I, Ottoman sultan.
1888 – Abu Al-Yaqzan, Algerian journalist and one of the pioneers of the reform movement and Ibadi figure in Algeria.
1921 – Princess Fawzia, daughter of King Fuad I of Egypt and former wife of the Shah of Iran, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi.
1941 – Najah Hafeez, Syrian actress.
1953 – His Excellency Zayed, Egyptian actor.
** Aladdin Trou, Lebanese politician.
1958 – Dawoud Hussein, Kuwaiti actor.
1962 – Intisar Al-Sharrah, Kuwaiti actress.
1963 – Samir Saeed, Kuwaiti football goalkeeper.
1992 – Athiya Shetty, Indian actress.
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Death:
1879 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist.
1930 – Christian Ekman, Dutch physicist and physiologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1929.
1944 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1912.
1975 – Edward Tatum, American biologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1958.
1989 – Hassan Abdeen, Egyptian actor.
1990 – Meir Kahane, founder of the Kach movement.
2006 – Bulent Ecevit, Prime Minister of Türkiye.
2017 – Mansour bin Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince.
2018 – Ali Al-Saqli Al-Husseini, Moroccan writer and poet, author of the noble anthem.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Bonfire Night in the UK and New Zealand.
