Year 1768
Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
NOVEMBER 5
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5 November: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 5 November.
Observances & Special Days
Kanakadasa Jayanthi (Karnataka, India)
Year 1817
Bajirao’s army was defeated by the British in the battle of Bajirao II.
Year 1824
The world’s first engineering college opened in New York City, USA.
Year 1862
American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.
Year 1872
Susan Anthony was fined $100 for voting in the United States when women did not have the right to vote.
Year 1895
George B. Selden received the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
Year 1929
GIP Railway Company introduced electric trains instead of trains from Mumbai to Pune.
Year 1937
Adolf Hitler called a secret meeting and revealed his plan to make more space for the German public.
Year 1940
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for the third time.
Year 1945
Colombia joined the United Nations.
Year 1951
The Bombay Railway (Bombay Baroda and Central India), the Saurashtra Railway, the Rajputana Railway, the Jaipur Railway, and the Kutch Railway were merged to form the Western Railway.
Year 2006
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death.
Year 2007
Google unveiled the Android mobile operating system.
Year 2007
China’s first spacecraft Change 1 orbited the Moon.
Year 2013
India launched the Mars Orbiter mission.
Born 1870
Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1925)
Born 1885
Will Durant, American historian, and philosopher.
Born 1892
J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (d. 1964)
Born 1905
Sajjad Zaheer, Indian author and poet (d. 1973)
Born 1908
Raja Rao, Professor of Philosophy and author, winner of Sahitya Akademi Award.
Born 1913
Vivien Leigh, Indian-British actress (d. 1967)
Born 1917
Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian activist and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007)
Born 1930
Arjun Singh, Indian leader.
Born 1932
Maruti Chitampally, Indian Writer, He is famous for his book on birds and wildlife.
Born 1952
Vandana Shiva, Indian philosopher and author
Born 1955
Karan Thapar, Indian journalist and author
Born 1988
Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
Died 1879
James Clerk Maxwell, a British physicist, and mathematician who theorized that light is made up of electromagnetic waves.
Died 1915
Pherozeshah Merwanjee Mehta, the founder of the National Assembly and a lion of Mumbai.
Died 1930
Christiaan Eijkman, a Dutch physician, and professor of physiology.
Died 1950
Fayaz Khansaheb, Indian singer.
Died 1987
Daasharathi, a Telugu poet and writer.
Died 1997
Sir Isaiah Berlin, a Latvian-born British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas.
Died 1998
Nagarjun, a Hindi and Maithili poet.
Died 2001
Milton William “Bill” Cooper, an American conspiracy theorist, radio broadcaster.
Died 2011
Bhupen Hazarika, Indian singer-songwriter, director, and poet (b. 1926)