Daily Calendar for Thursday, November 5, 2020
Born
- Washington Allston (painter) –
- Ida Minerva Tarbell (journalist) –
- James Ward Packard (manufacturer) –
- Will Durant (historian) –
- Roy Rogers (actor) –
- Vivien Leigh (actress) –
- Art Garfunkel (musician) –
- Sam Shepard (actor & playwright) –
- Bryan Adams (musician) –
- Tatum O'Neal (actress) –
- Famke Janssen (actress) –
- Corin Nemec (actor) –
- Johnny Damon (baseball player) –
Died
- George M. Cohan (songwriter) –
- Guy Lombardo (big band leader) –
- Al Capp (cartoonist, created Li’l Abner) –
- Vladimir Horowitz (pianist) –
- Fred MacMurray (actor) –
- Bobby Hatfield (singer, half the singing duo known as the Righteous Brothers) –
Events
- Susan B. Anthony cast her ballot, earning a fine–
- Tripoli annexed by Italy–
- The board game Monopoly was released by the Parker Brothers–
- Edwin Armstrong first demonstrated FM radio transmission–
- Dominion Observatory time signal first broadcast by CBC Radio–
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office by defeating Republican challenger Wendell Willkie–
- A Global Positioning System (GPS) was patented–
- Bronze Fred Rogers memorial statue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was dedicated–
- A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck Lincoln County, Oklahoma. It was the state’s strongest earthquake since 1952.–
- Voyager-2 probe crossed the heliopause and left our solar system to enter interstellar space–
Weather
- An Election Day storm brought 10 to 12 inches of snow to Connecticut and 78 mph winds to Block Island, Rhode Island–
- Thunderstorms brought dime-size hail to Las Vegas, Nevada–
- 2 inches of snow fell in Salisbury, Missouri–
- First snow of the season fell in Dublin, New Hampshire–
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