November 5
People born on this day are Scorpio.
- 1991
Tropical Storm Thelma causes flash floods in the Philippine city of Ormoc, killing more than 4,900 people.
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Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly.
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Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.
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Saddam Hussein, the 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 their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shia Muslims.
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China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
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U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.
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JS Air Flight 201 crashes after takeoff from Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing all 21 aboard.
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India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
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An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing.
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Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
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The Astroworld Festival crowd crush results in 10 deaths and 25 people being hospitalized
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Donald Trump becomes the first president of the United States to be elected to a non-consecutive second term in 132 years, since Grover Cleveland won the 1892 election.
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2002Matty Beniers, American ice hockey player
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1998Takehiro Tomiyasu, Japanese footballer
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1995Trey Lyles, Canadian basketball player
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1994Astou Ndour-Fall, Senegalese-Spanish basketball player
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1992Odell Beckham Jr., American football player
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1992Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
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1991Flume, Australian DJ and producer
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1991Jon Gray, American baseball player
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1991Shōdai Naoya, Japanese sumo wrestler
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1989D. J. Kennedy, American basketball player
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1988Yannick Borel, French fencer
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1988Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
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