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| 1840 illustration of Guy Fawkes. |
Nov. 5, 1605 - The "Gunpowder Plot" attempted by
Guy Fawkes failed when he was captured before he could blow up the English
Parliament. Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated every November 5th in Britain to
celebrate his failure to blow up all the members of Parliament and King James
I.
Nov. 5, 1775 - Continental Army commander in chief General
George Washington condemned his troops' planned celebration of the British
anti-Catholic holiday Guy Fawkes Night.
Nov. 5, 1862 - President Lincoln removed General George B.
McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac for the second and final
time. Lincoln was convinced that McClellan could not defeat Confederate General
Robert E. Lee. General Ambrose Burnside was selected to take McClellan's place.
Nov. 5, 1867 - The Alabama Constitutional Convention,
consisting of delegates elected under U.S. Congress’s Radical Reconstruction
plan, began meeting in Montgomery. The 100 delegates, of which 96 were
Republicans, including 18 African Americans, drafted a liberal document that
was declared ratified the next year to become the Alabama Constitution of
1868.
Nov. 5, 1879 – Capt. “Andy” Andrew Harrison Johnson, who was
born at Franklin in 1814, died. He owned the “Cremona,” a 268-ton steamboat
that was built in New Albany in 1852 and was in service from 1852 to 1861 when
it was seized by the Confederate Army for use as a supply transport. Prior to
this, the boat was a part of the “Dispatch Line” and later the “Tombigbee
Trade,” running a route on the Tombigbee River. Harrison’s plantation home,
also called “Cremona,” was located on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, south of
Point Clear.
Nov. 5, 1891 – Pro football and baseball player Alfred Earle
"Greasy" Neale was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia.
Nov. 5, 1912 – Dr. Woodrow Eddins, longtime Monroeville
physician, was born.
Nov. 5, 1913 – “Gone with the Wind” actress Vivien Leigh was
born in Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, British India.
Nov. 5, 1913 – “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” actor John McGiver
was born in New York City.
Nov. 5, 1917 – Naval Lt. John Tillman Melvin, 30, of Selma
became the first Naval officer killed in World War I when his ship was
torpedoed by a German sub.
Nov. 5, 1918 – During World War I, Army Pvt. James W. Brown
of Owassa “died from disease.”
Nov. 5, 1954 - Thomas Manners, responsible for keeping 800
clocks wound, got his smock caught in the mechanism of the great clock in the
London Law Courts tower, and was strangled to death by the clock he'd tended
for so many years.
Nov. 5, 1959 - The American Football League was formed.
Nov. 5, 1960 - Johnny Horton was killed in an auto accident
in Milano, Texas at the age of 33. His hits include "Battle of New
Orleans."
Nov. 5, 1963 - Archaeologists found the remains of a Viking
settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland.
Nov. 5, 1966 – On homecoming night in Lyeffion, the Yellow
Jackets beat J.U. Blacksher, 34-6.
Nov. 5, 1969 – Marine PFC Michael Toxey Rutherford of
Greenville was killed in action in Vietnam.
Nov. 5, 1975 - Travis Walton, a 22-year-old logger, said he
was abducted into a glowing disc-shaped object while working with a logging
crew in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona. Five co-workers
allegedly witnessed Walton's body rising up in an intense beam of light. Walton
could not be found, but reappeared after a five-day search.
Nov. 5, 1981 – Former Miami Dolphin Mercury Morris was
sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking, conspiracy and possession of
cocaine.
Nov. 5, 1984 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the NFL had
exceeded antitrust limits in attempting to stop the Oakland Raiders from moving
to Los Angeles.
Nov. 5, 1992 – The Greek ship HS Leon (D-54), formerly the
USS Eldridge, was decommissioned and on Nov. 11, 1999 it was sold as scrap to
the Piraeus-based firm V&J Scrapmetal Trading Ltd.
Nov. 5, 1993 – Episode No. 8 of “The X-Files” – entitled
“Ice” – aired for the first time.
Nov. 5, 1995 - Warren Moon of the Minnesota Vikings became
the sixth player in NFL history to pass for 40,000 career yards.
Nov. 5, 1995 - John Elway of the Denver Broncos became the
seventh player in NFL history to pass for 40,000 career yards.
Nov. 5, 1997 - The Milwaukee Brewers became the first major
league baseball team to switch leagues during the 20th century. They moved from
the American League to the National League.
Nov. 5, 1998 - Liam Gallagher of Oasis was arrested for
allegedly attacking a photographer and damaging his camera equipment.
Nov. 5, 2006 – Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and
his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are
sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the
148 Shi'a Muslims in 1982.
Nov. 5, 2007 – President George W. Bush awarded “To Kill A
Mockingbird” author Harper Lee the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's
highest civilian award, to recognize contributions in science, the arts,
literature and the cause of peace and freedom.
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