历史上的今天:11月5日,火药阴谋败露与苏珊·安东尼投下选票

1556年:第二次帕尼帕特战役,莫卧儿军队击败赫穆,稳固了14岁皇帝阿克巴的统治。
1605年:火药阴谋败露。11月5日凌晨,英国国王詹姆斯一世得知阴谋已被挫败:盖伊·福克斯在午夜前后被发现守在议会大厦地下室的36桶火药旁。这场由罗伯特·凯茨比策划的刺杀阴谋最终失败,福克斯受审后于1606年1月31日被处决。议会于1606年立法将11月5日定为公共感恩日,英国至今以「盖伊·福克斯之夜」的篝火与烟花纪念。
1688年:奥兰治的威廉率军登陆英格兰,开启「光荣革命」。1757年:腓特烈大帝在罗斯巴赫战役中击败法奥联军。
1862年:同日两件大事:林肯总统解除乔治·麦克莱伦的波托马克军团司令职务;达科他战争审判结束,300多名达科他族人被判绞刑。
1872年:妇女参政运动领袖苏珊·B.安东尼在纽约州罗切斯特总统选举中违法投票,随后被捕受审——这比美国女性获得宪法投票权早了48年。
1895年:乔治·塞尔登获得美国第549,160号「道路引擎」专利。1912年:伍德罗·威尔逊以435张选举人票的压倒优势当选第28任总统,塔夫脱仅得8票、西奥多·罗斯福88票。
1935年:帕克兄弟公司推出地产大亨游戏《大富翁》。1940年:富兰克林·罗斯福赢得史无前例的第三个总统任期。1968年:理查德·尼克松在史上最接近的大选之一中险胜汉弗莱当选总统。
1977年:乔治·W.布什与劳拉·韦尔奇在德州米德兰成婚,两人当时均31岁。
1994年:同日两则头条:83岁的罗纳德·里根以亲笔信向全美宣布自己罹患阿尔茨海默病;45岁的乔治·福尔曼在拉斯维加斯第十回合击倒迈克尔·穆勒,成为史上最年长的重量级拳王。
2006年:伊拉克前总统萨达姆·侯赛因被判处死刑。2007年:谷歌发布安卓系统并成立开放手持设备联盟。2009年:得州胡德堡陆军基地发生枪击案,一名陆军少校枪杀13人、伤30余人。
2013年:印度发射首颗火星探测器「曼加里安」号。2024年:唐纳德·特朗普赢得大选、成为美国史上第二位非连续连任的总统,美国国会也迎来首位公开跨性别议员。
11月5日同时是联合国「世界海啸意识日」。
(来源:HISTORY)
On This Day, November 5: The Gunpowder Plot Foiled and Susan B. Anthony Votes
1556: At the Second Battle of Panipat, the Mughal army defeats Hemu, securing the throne of the 14-year-old emperor Akbar.
1605: The Gunpowder Plot is foiled. In the early hours of November 5, King James I learns the plot has been stopped: Guy Fawkes was found around midnight guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder beneath the House of Lords. The assassination plot, led by Robert Catesby, collapsed; Fawkes was tortured and executed on January 31, 1606. Parliament made November 5 a day of public thanksgiving in 1606, and Britain still marks Guy Fawkes Night with bonfires and fireworks.
1688: William of Orange lands in England, beginning the Glorious Revolution. 1757: Frederick the Great routs the French and Austrian armies at Rossbach.
1862: Two events on one day: President Abraham Lincoln removes Gen. George McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac, and the Dakota War trials conclude with more than 300 Dakota men sentenced to hang.
1872: Suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes illegally in the presidential election in Rochester, New York, and is later arrested — 48 years before American women won the constitutional right to vote.
1895: George Selden wins U.S. Patent No. 549,160 for his "road engine." 1912: Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th president in a landslide with 435 electoral votes to William Howard Taft's 8 and Theodore Roosevelt's 88.
1935: Parker Brothers introduces the board game Monopoly. 1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term. 1968: Richard Nixon edges Hubert Humphrey in one of the closest presidential elections in U.S. history.
1977: George W. Bush marries Laura Welch in Midland, Texas; both are 31.
1994: Two headlines on one day: Ronald Reagan, 83, announces in a handwritten letter that he has Alzheimer's disease, and George Foreman, 45, knocks out Michael Moorer in the 10th round in Las Vegas to become the oldest heavyweight champion in boxing history.
2006: Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death. 2007: Google unveils Android and the Open Handset Alliance. 2009: An Army major kills 13 people and wounds more than 30 at Fort Hood, Texas.
2013: India launches its Mars Orbiter Mission, Mangalyaan. 2024: Donald Trump is elected to a nonconsecutive presidential term, and the first openly transgender member of Congress is elected.
November 5 is also the United Nations' World Tsunami Awareness Day.
(Source: HISTORY)
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