November 5 is
National Doughnut Day
Guy Fawkes Day, the anniversary of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot” to blow up Parliament and the king.
On this date in 1781 John Hanson was elected first “President of US in Congress assembled”. See Presidents before Washington
Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the presidential election of 1872. She tried to vote for Ulysses S Grant.
Parker Brothers began marketing the board game “Monopoly”in 1935.
From Today in Science
In 1963, archaeologists found Viking ruins in Newfoundland predating Columbus by 500 years. Leif Ericson, Icelandic explorer, second son of Eric the Red, is believed by most historians to have been the first European to reach the North American mainland. About the year 1000 he landed at a place that he called Vinland. Vinland was identified as Newfoundland in 1963 when archaeologists uncovered the remains of a Viking-type settlement at L’Anse-aux-Meadows at the extreme northern tip of the island. His countryman, Bjarni Herjólfsson, had earlier sighted North America and reported that the land was rich in timber. Thus, Ericson had a clear economic motive for his journey. Icelanders needed wood for houses and ships, but their country is entirely treeless.
The 1968 United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial U.S. presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
November 5, 2009 A shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas left 13 people dead and more than 30 injured; Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was charged in the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base. A jury panel of 13 officers in August, 2013 convicted him of 13 counts of premeditated murder, 32 counts of attempted murder, and unanimously recommended he be dismissed from the service and sentenced to death. Hasan is incarcerated at the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas awaiting execution while his case is reviewed by appellate courts. It is estimated the appeals process will take 10-15 years and will then require authorization from the President.
Hasan’s former defense lawyer, retired Col. John P. Galligan, told Army Times that they spoke last week (July 19, 2019) on the day in which the new DOJ guidance was announced.
“[Hasan’s] case hasn’t even really gotten through the initial stages of the appeal,” Galligan said. “The case is still being litigated on post-trial discovery issues … I think it’d be a long time before that [the death penalty] becomes one of the pertinent issues to be addressed on appeal.”
Hasan congratulated the Taliban for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in August, 2021.