A Red-Letter Date

My Birthday is November 5:

Events

1605 - Gunpowder Plot: A plot led by Robert Catesby to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is thwarted when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building. Fawkes was later hanged, drawn and quartered for his role in the conspiracy.
1955 - Dr. Emmett Brown invents the "flux capacitor" after an interior decorating accident in his bathroom. The flux capacitor is what makes time travel possible.
1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini declares the USA to be "the great Satan".

Births

1885 - Will Durant, American historian (d. 1981)
1911 - Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)
1971 - Jonny Greenwood, Guitarist (Radiohead)

Deaths

1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer (b. 1878)
1975 - Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1909)
1979 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)