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AP US History
This Day in American History
November 5
1775 – Continental Army commander in chief
General George Washington condemns his troops'
planned celebration of the British anti-Catholic
holiday, Guy Fawkes Night, as he was
simultaneously struggling to win French-Canadian
Catholics to the Patriot cause.
AP US History
This Day in American History
November 5
1930 – Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in
Literature "for his vigorous and graphic art of
description and his ability to create, with wit and
humor, new types of characters." Lewis, born in
Sauk Center, Minnesota, was the first American to
win the distinguished award.
AP US History
This Day in American History
November 5
1968 - Winning one of the closest elections in U.S.
history, Republican challenger Richard Nixon defeats
Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Because of the
strong showing of third-party candidate George
Wallace, neither Nixon nor Humphrey received
more than 50 percent of the popular vote; Nixon
beat Humphrey by less than 500,000 votes.
AP US History
This Day in American History
November 5
2009 – 13 people are killed and more than 30 others
are wounded, nearly all of them unarmed soldiers,
when a U.S. Army officer goes on a shooting
rampage at Fort Hood in central Texas. The deadly
assault, carried out by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an
Army psychiatrist, was the worst mass murder at a
U.S. military installation.