November 5
November 5
Events
- 1556 – Second Battle of Panipat: Fought between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the Hindu king at Delhi and forces of Muslim Emperor Akbar.
- 1828 – Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea (now the Peloponnese) ends when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula.
- 1911 – After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
- 1914 – World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 1956 – Suez Crisis: British and French paratroopers land in Egypt after a week-long bombing campaign.
- 1996 – Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan.
- 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 their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi'a Muslims.
- 2009 – U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.
Births
- 1615 – Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1648)
- 1905 – Sajjad Zaheer, Indian author and poet (d. 1973)
- 1919 – Hasan Askari, Pakistani linguist, scholar, and critic (d. 1978)
- 1921 – Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (d. 2013)
- 1980 – Orkun Uşak, Turkish footballer
- 1981 – Ümit Ergirdi, Turkish footballer
- 1985 – Pınar Saka, Turkish sprinter
Deaths
- 425 – Atticus, archbishop of Constantinople
- 1992 – Adile Ayda, Russian-Turkish engineer and diplomat (b. 1912)
- 2006 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1925)
- 2013 – Habibollah Asgaroladi, Iranian politician (b. 1932)
- 2014 – Abdelwahab Meddeb, Tunisian-French author, poet, and scholar (b. 1946)
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