Gunpowder Plot
Celebrated with fireworks as Guy Fawkes Day, this English holiday marks the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, when Roman Catholics led by Robert Catesby tried to blow up Parliament, the king, and his family this day in 1605. 1605.
Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, defeating Kamala Harris; he became the first convicted felon to be elected to the office and the second president to win a second nonconsecutive term. 2024.
India launched its first interplanetary spacecraft, the Mars Orbiter Mission, which was unmanned. 2013.
The journal Nature published a report that DNA testing had confirmed (still disputed by some) that a member of Thomas Jefferson‘s family had fathered a child with the slave Sally Hemings; the testing, however, was unable to definitively prove that Jefferson was the father. 1998.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented third term as president of the United States. 1940.
Social critic Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first American to receive the honour. 1930.
France and Britain declared war on Turkey, widening the conflict of World War I. 1914.
Honduras declared its absolute independence, seceding from the United Provinces of Central America. 1838.
