On This Day for November 5 - Gunpowder Plot, Eugene V. Debs is featured, and more

This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, click here to view. November 05 FEATURED BIOGRAPHY Eugene V. Debs READ MORE   FEATURED EVENT 1605 Gunpowder Plot READ MORE   Advertisement Advertisement   MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY 2013: India launched its first interplanetary spacecraft, the Mars Orbiter Mission, which was unmanned. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about space exploration.] 1998: The journal Nature published a report that DNA testing had confirmed (still disputed by some) that a member of Thomas Jefferson's family had fathered a child with the slave Sally Hemings; the testing, however, was unable to definitively prove that Jefferson was the father. [Read more about the Jefferson-Hemings paternity debate.] 1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented third term as president of the United States. [Take our quiz about U.S. presidential firsts.] 1930: Social critic Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first American to receive the honour. [Test your knowledge of literary Nobelists.] 1914: France and Britain declared war on Turkey, widening the conflict of World War I. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about World War I.] 1913: British actress Vivien Leigh—who achieved motion picture immortality by playing two of American literature's most-celebrated Southern belles, Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche DuBois—was born in India. [ Take our quiz about women in classic cinema.] SEE ALL EVENTS ON THIS DAY ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY 1960 Tilda Swinton Scottish actress 1913 Vivien Leigh British actress 1943 Sam Shepard American playwright and actor 1952 Bill Walton American basketball player 1896 L. S. Vygotsky Soviet psychologist 1855 Eugene V. Debs American social and labour leader SEE ALL BIOS ON THIS DAY   Advertisement   FOLLOW: To unsubscribe from Britannica e-mails, click here. Encyclopædia Britannica 325 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 United States © 2020 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Privacy Policy • Help