Eugene Debs Born, FDR Unlimited, Nidal Malik Hasan

On this day: November 5

In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time and is later fined $100 (1872)

In Tallinn, Estonia, Communist leader Jaan Anwelt leads revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (1917)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected to a third term as President (1940)

U.S. Army Major and Islamist jihadi terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan murders 13 and wounds 29 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation (2009)

President B. Hussein Obama meets with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to discuss Hispanic relations in the U.S. (2009)

b: Eugene V. Debs (1855), Ida Tarbell (1857), Carmelo Soria (1921); d: Robert Maxwell (1991)

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