Novemeber 5th..................................... 1955 - Date returned to in Back to the Future by Marty McFly 1956 - Britain & France land forces in Egypt in reaction to seizure of Suez Canal 1956 - Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized 1956 - Israel liberates Sharm-el-Sheikh, reopening Gulf of Aqaba 1956 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Datis nuperrime 1957 - Mrs Nellie McGrail wins $574,658 on a 2½ cent soccer pool ticket 1958 - Maria Golovin opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 performances 1958 - KGLD (now KSNG) TV channel 11 in Garden City, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast 1959 - AFL announced with 8 teams 1961 - Indias premier Nehru arrives in NY 1961 - St Louis Cards Bill Stacy, returns 2 interceptions for TDs vs Dallas 36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson 1963 - US VP Lyndon B Johnson visits Netherlands 1964 - US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned 1966 - Brigham Young QB Virgil Carter sets NCAA record of 599 yards gained 1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1967 - ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disk 1967 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open 1967 - New Orleans Saints 1st NFL victory, beat Philadelphia Eagles 31-24 1967 - US troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam 1967 - Yemen president Sallal flees 1967 - The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. The survivors include Bee Gee Robin Gibb. 1968 - 1st AL pitcher to win MVP, Denny McLain (wins unanimously) 1968 - Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for presidency 1971 - Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping 1971 - NBAs LA Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak 1972 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic Singer-songwriter Robin Gibb 1973 - BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service 1974 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes Michelangelo songs 1974 - Ella Grasso (Ct) elected 1st woman US gov not related to previous gov 1974 - Walter E Washington, becomes 1st elected mayor of Wash DC 1975 - British government sends troops to Belize 1975 - Sao Tome & Principe adopts constitution 1976 - Balt Jim Palmer wins AL Cy Young Award 1976 - New AL franchises in Seattle & Toronto fill up their rosters 1976 - Pirates trade Manny Sanguillen & $100,000 to As for mgr Chuck Tanner 1976 - USSR performs nuclear test 1977 - NCAA passing record set at 571 yards (Marc Wilson, Brigham Young) 1978 - Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi 1978 - Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran 1978 - Oakland Raiders John Madden becomes 13th coach to win 100 NFL games 1979 - Iran government of Bazargan resigns 1979 - Irans Ayatollah Khomeini declares US The Great Satan 1981 - Charles Fullers Soldiers Play, premieres in NYC 1981 - Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficing, conspiracy, & possession of cocaine 1982 - Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record) 1982 - George Harrison releases Gone Troppo album 1983 - NY Rangers & Quebec Nordiques both score in 1st 14 secs of 3rd period 1983 - Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moves overland to Dryden 1985 - News opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 4 performances 1987 - Into the Woods opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 764 performances 1987 - France performs nuclear test 1987 - Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic 1987 - South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed 1987 - Stephen Sondheim/James Lapines musical Into the Stars, premieres 1987 - Supreme Court nominee Douglas H Ginsburg admitted using marijuana 1988 - 1st NBA game at Bradley Center, Milw Bucks lose to LA Clippers 111-91 1988 - 1st NBA game at Miami Arena, Miami Heat loss to LA Clippers, 111-91 1988 - 1st NBA game at Palace of Auburn Hills, Pistons beat Hornets 94-85 1988 - Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage 1988 - France performs nuclear test 1988 - Gulch wins Breeders Cup 1988 - Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo (Game 1 of 7) 1988 - Horse Racing Breeders Cup Champs: Alysheba, Gt Communicator, Gulch, Is It True, Miesque, Open Mind, Personal Ensign at Churchill Downs 1989 - Threepenny Opera opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 perfs 1989 - 19th NYC Womens Marathon won by Ingrid Kristiansen in 2:25:30 1989 - 20th NYC Marathon won by Juma Ikangaa in 2:08:01 1989 - Browns Bernie Kosar sets club record of 16 cons pass completions 1989 - Elaine Crosby wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic 1989 - US plays El Salvador in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup 1991 - Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan 1991 - Richard J Kerr ends term as acting director of CIA 1992 - Show Off opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances 1992 - Bobby Fisher beats Boris Spassky to with Chess title in Belgrade 1993 - 1st NBA game in Alamodome, San Antonio Spurs beat Warriors 91-85 1994 - Space probe Ulyssus completes 1st passage behind the Sun 1994 - Tony Rominger bicycles world record for distance covered in one hour for second time (55.291 km) 1994 - Yak-40 accident in north of Peru, 8 killed 1994 - Horse Racing Breeders Cup Champs: Barathea, Cherokee Run, Concern, Flanders, One Dreamer, Tikkanen, Timber Country Boxing Champ George Foreman 1994 - George Foreman (45) KOs Michael Moorer to win boxing HW championship 1995 - STS 73 (Columbia 18), lands 1995 - Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup Golf Tournament 1995 - 1st NBA game at General Motors Place, Vancouver Grizzlies beat Minn Timberwolves 100-98 in OT 1995 - André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien; he is thwarted when the PMs wife locks the door. 1996 - Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is the unanimous choice as AL Rookie of 1997 - 2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns he is named AL Manager of Year 1997 - French court orders producer Jacques Charrier, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, to pay the former screen star $8,300 in damages 2000 - Emperor Haile Selassie I is given an Imperial funeral by the Ethiopian Orthodox church 2006 - Saddam Hussein, 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 the role in the massacre of the 148 Shias in 1982. 2007 - Chinas first lunar satellite, Change 1 goes into orbit around the Moon. 2009 - US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan (US Army Medical Corps) killed 13 and wounded 43 at Fort Hood, Texas in the largest mass shooting ever at a US military installation. 2012 - 50 Syrian military personnel are killed by a suicide car bomb in Hama 2012 - Widespread flooding in Nigeria kills 363 people and displaces 2.1 million
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