Other Notable Events, November 5

In 1605, Guy Fawkes and fellow conspirators attempted to blow up the English Parliament and failed. They were beheaded.

In 1733, German-born publisher John Peter Zenger began printing The New York Weekly Journal in opposition to the British colonial administration.

In 1854, combined British-French forces scored a decisive victory over the Russians in the Crimea.

In 1930, the first commercial television broadcast was aired.

In 1940, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected to an unprecedented third term.

In 1990, an Egyptian-born gunman, apparently acting alone, assassinated Meir Kahane, the U.S. native who founded the militant Jewish Defense League.

Also in 1990, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand an order requiring the U.S. Army to permit homosexuals to re-enlist.

In 1991, the body of British media mogul Robert Maxwell was found in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands.

Also in 1991, Kiichi Miyazawa was formally appointed prime minister of Japan, succeeding Toshiki Kaifu.

In 1992, former U.S. world chess champion Bobby Fischer triumphed in his $5 million rematch against Russian arch-rival Boris Spassky.

In 1996, U.S. President Bill Clinton was re-elected, defeating Republican challenger Bob Dole.

In 2002, Republicans seized control of the U.S. Senate and retained their hold on the House, giving President George W. Bush a historic victory in mid-term elections, which traditionally go against the incumbent president.

In 2004, Saskatchewan became the seventh Canadian province to allow same-sex couples to marry.

In 2005, thousands of U.S. and Iraqi forces engaged in a fight against al-Qaida militants in Iraq near the Syrian border.

In 2006, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, 69, faced death by hanging after his conviction in Baghdad in a yearlong trial for the 1982 slaughter of 148 Shiite boys and men in the village of Dujail.

In 2008, the day after Barack Obama was elected U.S. president, he was alerted by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that short-range missiles would be deployed near Poland that could reach NATO countries if the United States installs a missile defense system in Europe.

In 2009, a lone gunman killed 13 people, including 10 military personnel, and wounded 31 others in a shooting frenzy at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas. Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, who was wounded four times but survived, was charged by officials as the shooter.

In 2010, the U.S. economy added 151,000 jobs in October, more than expected but not enough to reduce the unemployment rate to less than 9.6 percent. About 15 million Americans registered as unemployed.

In 2011, Penn State University was wracked by scandal when former football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was arrested on 40 counts of alleged sexual abuse of boys over a 15-year period.

Also in 2011, bombings and street battles between Islamic and Christian factions in northern Nigeria killed at least 60 people. The surprise attack targeted police stations and Christian churches.

And, veteran CBS 60 Minutes television essayist Andy Rooney died in New York of post-surgical complications. He was 92.