Updated November 4, 2012, 1:28 pm
On Nov. 5, 1968, Republican Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace.
On Nov. 5, 1857, Ida Tarbell, the American journalist best known for her study of the Standard Oil Company, was born. Following her death on Jan. 6, 1944, her obituary appeared in The Times.
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1605 The Gunpowder Plot failed when Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament. 1872 Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in a presidential election. 1912 Woodrow Wilson was elected president, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt. 1935 Parker Brothers began marketing the board game “Monopoly.” 1956 Britain and France landed troops in Egypt during fighting between Egyptian and Israeli forces around the Suez Canal. 1968 Republican Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace. 1974 Ella Grasso of Connecticut became the first woman elected governor in the United States without succeeding her husband. 1994 Former President Ronald Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer’s disease. 1994 George Foreman became boxing’s oldest heavyweight champion at age 45 by knocking out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas. 1996 President Bill Clinton won a second term over former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. 1999 A federal judge declared Microsoft Corp. a monopoly. 2006 Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for crimes against humanity. 2009 A shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas left 13 people dead; Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was charged in the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base. Current Birthdays
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Actress Tilda Swinton turns 52 years old today.
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1940 Elke Sommer, Actress, turns 72 1941 Art Garfunkel, Singer, turns 71 1943 Sam Shepard, Actor, playwright, turns 69 1947 Peter Noone, Singer (Herman’s Hermits), turns 65 1952 Bill Walton, Basketball Hall of Famer, turns 60 1957 Kellen Winslow, Football Hall of Famer, turns 55 1958 Mo Gaffney, Actress, comedian, turns 54 1959 Bryan Adams, Rock singer, turns 53 1963 Andrea McArdle, Actress, turns 49 1963 Tatum O’Neal, Actress, turns 49 1968 Sam Rockwell, Actor, turns 44 1973 Johnny Damon, Baseball player, turns 39 1974 Ryan Adams, Country musician, turns 38 1987 Kevin Jonas, Rock musician (The Jonas Brothers), turns 25 Historic Birthdays
Ida Tarbell 11/5/1857 – 1/6/1944 American journalist. Go to obituary »
79 Anna Leonowens 11/5/1834 – 1/19/1914
English writer and governess to children of king Mongkut of Siam86 Paul Sabatier 11/5/1854 – 8/14/1941
French chemist70 Eugene V. Debs 11/5/1855 – 10/20/1926
American socialist labor leader74 Will Hays 11/5/1879 – 3/7/1954
American politician and president of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association (1922-45)96 Will Durant 11/5/1885 – 11/7/1981
American writer92 Raymond Loewy 11/5/1893 – 7/14/1986
French-born American industrial designer71 Martin Dies 11/5/1901 – 11/14/1972
American politician; first chairman of House Committee on Un-American Activities53 Vivien Leigh 11/5/1913 – 7/8/1967
British film and stage actress
