Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 5

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 * 1605 – The arrest of Guy Fawkes, found during a search of the Palace of Westminster, foiled the Gunpowder Plot, which planned to blow up the House of Lords.
 * 1757 – Seven Years' War: Prussian forces led by Frederick the Great defeated the allied French and Habsburg armies at the Battle of Rossbach.
 * 1916 – An armed confrontation in Everett, Washington, between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World resulted in seven deaths.
 * 1944 – World War II: Allied forces begin a military campaign on Japanese-occupied Singapore.
 * 1950 – Korean War: The 27th British Commonwealth Brigade succeeded in preventing a Chinese breakthrough at the Battle of Pakchon.
 * 1556 – At the Second Battle of Panipat, forces of the Mughal emperor Akbar captured Hemu, the Hindu emperor of north India.
 * 1990 – Ultra-Zionist rabbi Meir Kahane was assassinated in a New York City hotel by an Arab gunman.
 * 2009 – U.S. Army major Nidal Hasan went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, the worst shooting ever to take place on an American military base, killing 13.


 * Born/died: | Mariotto Albertinelli |d|1515| Anna Maria van Schurman |b|1607| Eugene V. Debs |b|1855| Ida Tarbell |b|1857|Otto Wahle |b|1879| James Clerk Maxwell |d|1879| B. Max Mehl |b|1884| Harold Innis |b|1894| Vivien Leigh |b|1913 Hadji Ali |d|1937| Mary W. Bacheler |d|1939|