What Happened On This Day ? November 5
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2009
13 killed at Fort Hood, Texas
Major Malik Hasan opened fire at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center in Fort Hood, Texas and killed 13 people, injuring 30.
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2007
China's first lunar satellite enters lunar orbit
The Chang'e 1, an unmanned lunar-orbiting spacecraft sent the first pictures of the Moon on November 26.
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2003
Green Valley Killer pleads guilty
Gary Ridgeway, a serial killer also known as the Green Valley Killer plead guilty to killing 48 women in the 1980s and 1990s.
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1995
Assassination attempt on Canadian Prime Minister
Andre Dallaire tried to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien.
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1943
Vatican City bombed
Vatican City was bombed by a fascist Italian aircraft breaching the neutrality of Vatican during the second World War
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1960
Tilda Swinton
English actress
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1959
Bryan Adams
Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actor
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1948
Bob Barr
American politician
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1941
Art Garfunkel
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor
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1931
Ike Turner
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer
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2010
Antonio Cardenas Guillen
Mexican drug lord, co-leader
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1982
E. H. Carr
English historian, theorist
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1979
Al Capp
American cartoonist
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1956
Art Tatum
American pianist
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1879
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist