November 5: On This Progressive DayIn 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 ("workplace violence") at a U.S. military installation (2009)
President B. Hussein Obama holds a tête-à-tête with the President of Botswana Ian Khama in the Oval Office (2009)
b: Eugene V. Debs (1855), Ida Tarbell (1857), Carmelo Soria (1921), Ted Kulongoski (1940); d: Robert Maxwell (1991)
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