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TODAY IN HISTORY

November 5

Thursday, November 5, 2026

Day 309 of 2026 | Week 45 | 50 days until Christmas ๐ŸŽ…

HISTORIC EVENTS

1
2024

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.

2
2021

The Astroworld Festival crowd crush results in 10 deaths and 25 people being hospitalized

3
2017

Devin Patrick Kelley kills 26 and injures 22 in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

4
2015

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.

5
2015

Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

6
2013

India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.

7
2010

JS Air Flight 201 crashes after takeoff from Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing all 21 aboard.

8
2009

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.

9
2007

China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.

10
2007

The Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

2003 Atlanta Braves)

born in Ponce

1973 Alexei Yashin

Russian ice hockey center (Team Russia Olympic silver 1998

1973 Daniella Westbrook

British actress (Sam Mitchell in "EastEnders")

1973 Johnny Damon

American MLB baseball outfielder (World Series 2004 Boston Red Sox

1972 Neil Cowley

English jazz pianist (Displaced

1971 Corin Nemec

American actor (Tucker

1971 Dana Jacobson

American TV host (ESPN's First Take)

1971 Edmond Leung

Hong Kong singer and songwriter

1971 Erick Walder

American triple jumper

1971 Jonny Greenwood

British guitarist

1971 Rob Jones

English footballer (Liverpool)

1970 Javy Lรณpez

Puerto Rican baseball catcher (MLB All-Star 1997

1970 Ryan Wetnight

American NFL tight end (Chicago Bears)

1970 Tamzin Outhwaite

British actress (Mel Owen in "EastEnders")

1969 Jennifer Guthrie

American actress (General Hospital

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