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November 5 (aka Guy Fawkes day, National Doughnut Day) is the 5th day in November.
Events
1605 -- Gunpowder plot to blow up English Parliament detected, leader Guy Fawkes captured.
1885 -- Will Durant, historian (The Story of Civilization), lives. A teacher & a director at the anarchist Modern School.
1886 -- Guy Aldred, British anarchist anti-militarist, lives.
1895 -- England: King Edward VII says "We are all Socialists nowadays".
1916 -- US: Everett Massacre, Washington state. Industrial Workers of the World labor activists are killed by Everett's finest.
1920 -- Eugene Debs, Convict #9653, receives nearly one million votes as Socialist Party presidential candidate while occupying a jail cell.
1937 -- Germany: Julius Nolden, sentenced to a 10-year prison term for "preparing an act of high treason with aggravating circumstances."
1960 -- Denmark: Launch, at the Statsgymnasium in Ã…rhus, of the Ceramic Mural (27 meters long, 3 high), produced by Asger Jorn. http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sources.htm#Situationists
1966 -- US: Walk for Love & Peace & Freedom: 10,000+ show up, including Poets Allen Ginsberg, & Gary Snyder, Paul Krassner, the Fugs. The "first hippie style demo in NYC".
