Today in History
5 November
225 births · 116 deaths · 53 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1911
Roy Rogers
American singer and actor (1911–1998)
Notable Births
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Matty Beniers
b. 2002
American ice hockey player (born 2002)
Takehiro Tomiyasu
b. 1998
Japanese footballer (born 1998)
Trey Lyles
b. 1995
Canadian-American basketball player (born 1995)
Astou Ndour-Fall
b. 1994
Spanish basketball player (born 1994)
Odell Beckham Jr.
b. 1992
American football player (born 1992)
Ryan Adams
b. 1974
American musician (born 1974)
Michael Sorridimi
b. 1956
Australian rugby league footballer
Roy Rogers
b. 1911
American singer and actor (1911–1998)
Notable Deaths
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Ben Baldanza
d. 2024
American business executive (1961–2024)
Elwood Edwards
d. 2024
American voice actor (1949–2024)
Pat E. Johnson
d. 2023
American martial artist (1939–2023)
Aaron Carter
d. 2022
American singer (1987–2022)
Marília Mendonça
d. 2021
Brazilian singer and songwriter (1995–2021)
Geoffrey Palmer (actor)
d. 2020
British actor (1927–2020)
George Barris (auto customizer)
d. 2015
American automobile customizer (1925–2015)
Theodor von Heuglin
d. 1876
19th-century German explorer and ornithologist
On This Day in History
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2024
Donald Trump becomes the first president of the United States to be elected to a non-consecutive second term in 132 years, since Grover Cleveland won the 1892 election.
Donald Trump
2021
The Astroworld Festival crowd crush results in 10 deaths and 25 people being hospitalized
Astroworld Festival crowd crush
2017
Devin Patrick Kelley kills 26 and injures 22 in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
Sutherland Springs church shooting
2015
An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing.
Iron ore
2015
Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Rona Ambrose
2013
India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
Mars Orbiter Mission
2010
JS Air Flight 201 crashes after takeoff from Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing all 21 aboard.
JS Air Flight 201
2009
U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.
Nidal Hasan