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November 5: Guy Fawkes Night in Great Britain and some Commonwealth countries
Aline Chrétien
- 1138 – Lý Anh Tông was enthroned as the emperor of Đại Việt at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
- 1943 – World War II: An unknown aircraft dropped four bombs on Vatican City, which maintained neutrality during the war.
- 1995 – Aline Chrétien (pictured) thwarted André Dallaire's attempt to assassinate her husband, Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien, by locking the bedroom door in 24 Sussex Drive, their official residence in Ottawa.
- 2003 – American serial killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of first-degree murder.
- 2013 – The Indian Space Research Organisation launched the Mars Orbiter Mission, India's first interplanetary probe.
- Louis Bertrand Castel (b. 1688)
- Edwin Flack (b. 1873)
- James Robert Baker (d. 1997)
- Habibollah Asgaroladi (d. 2013)
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