EST. DECEMBER 1994 โข 30+ YEARS ONLINE
yow.com ๐ฏ
Owned continuously since 1994
TODAY IN HISTORY
November 5
Thursday, November 5, 2026
Day 309 of 2026 | Week 45 | 50 days until Christmas ๐
HISTORIC EVENTS
Donald Trump becomes the first president of the United States to be elected to a non-consecutive second term in 132 years, since Grover Cleveland won the 1892 election.
The Astroworld Festival crowd crush results in 10 deaths and 25 people being hospitalized
Devin Patrick Kelley kills 26 and injures 22 in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing.
Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
JS Air Flight 201 crashes after takeoff from Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing all 21 aboard.
U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.
China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
The Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
born in Ponce
Russian ice hockey center (Team Russia Olympic silver 1998
British actress (Sam Mitchell in "EastEnders")
American MLB baseball outfielder (World Series 2004 Boston Red Sox
English jazz pianist (Displaced
American actor (Tucker
American TV host (ESPN's First Take)
Hong Kong singer and songwriter
American triple jumper
British guitarist
English footballer (Liverpool)
Puerto Rican baseball catcher (MLB All-Star 1997
American NFL tight end (Chicago Bears)
British actress (Mel Owen in "EastEnders")
American actress (General Hospital
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