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What Happened on November 5

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.

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.

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.

Assassination attempt on Canadian Prime Minister
André Dallaire tried to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.

Vatican City bombed
Vatican City was bombed by a fascist Italian aircraft breaching the neutrality of the Vatican during the Second World War

  • 1960 Tilda Swinton
    English actress
  • 1959 Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actor
  • 1948 Bob Barr
    American politician
  • 1941 Art Garfunkel
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor
  • 1931 Ike Turner
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer
  • 2010 Antonio Cárdenas Guillén
    Mexican drug lord, co-leader
  • 1982 E. H. Carr
    English historian, theorist
  • 1979 Al Capp
    American cartoonist
  • 1956 Art Tatum
    American pianist
  • 1879 James Clerk Maxwell
    Scottish physicist

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