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1605 Gunpowder Plot Celebrated with fireworks as Guy Fawkes Day, this English holiday marks the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, when Roman Catholics led by Robert Catesby tried to blow up Parliament, the king, and his family this day in 1605. © North Wind Picture Archives

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Eugene V. Debs American social and labor leader bornNovember 5, 1855Terre Haute, IndianadiedOctober 20, 1926 (aged 70)Elmhurst, IllinoisLibrary of Congress, Washington, D.C. 1960 Tilda Swinton Scottish actress 1952 Bill Walton American basketball player 1943 Sam Shepard American playwright and actor 1913 Vivien Leigh British actress 1896 L. S. Vygotsky Soviet psychologist See All Biographies On This Day

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2024 Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, defeating Kamala Harris; he became the first convicted felon to be elected to the office and the second president to win a second nonconsecutive term. Learn about five great political comebacks© Jim Watson—AFP/Getty Images 2013 India launched its first interplanetary spacecraft, the Mars Orbiter Mission, which was unmanned. Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about space explorationIndian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) 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 debateCourtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gift of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge IV in memory of his great-grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, his grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge II, and his father, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge III, 1986.71. 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented third term as president of the United States. Take our quiz about U.S. presidential firstsUPI/Bettmann Archive 1930 Social critic Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first American to receive the honour. Test your knowledge of literary NobelistsThe Granger Collection, New York 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 IHulton Archive/Getty Images 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© 1951 Warner Bros. 1911 American cowboy actor and singer Roy Rogers—who starred in films and television shows, often alongside his wife, Dale Evans—was born. Test your knowledge of actors and actingRepublic Pictures Corporation; photograph from a private collection 1872 Susan B. Anthony, a leader in the American women's suffrage movement, cast a ballot in the presidential election, and she was later arrested for voting illegally and convicted in a trial she called “the greatest outrage history ever witnessed.” How much do you know about famous suffragettes?Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZ62-27885) 1838 Honduras declared its absolute independence, seceding from the United Provinces of Central America. Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about Latin AmericaEncyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 1556 Mughal power was restored in India following Bayram Khān's victory at the second Battle of Panipat. Test your knowledge of India SIGN UP FOR History's Biggest Headlines Discover the fascinating events that shaped the world, straight from our editors. SIGN UP Thanks for signing up for Today in History. Your first newsletter will arrive soon! SIGN UP By clicking "Sign Up" you are agreeing to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.