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On This Day In History for November 5, 2025
This is the 309th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 56 days remaining in 2025.
* It was on this date in 1499, that The Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, was published; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
* It was also this date in 1872, In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony voted for the first time, and was later fined $100 as part of Women’s suffrage in the United States
* George B. Selden was granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile on this date in 1895.
* On November 5, 1986, USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visited Qingdao, China; the first US naval visit to China since 1949.
* It was 18 years ago today that China’s first lunar satellite, Chang’e 1, went into orbit around the Moon.
* That same date in 2013, India launched the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
* French mathematician and philosopher, Louis Bertrand Castel, born on this date in 1688.
* Born November 5, 1900, American actress Natalie Schafer.
* American actor, Armin Shimerman is 76 today.
* Also born on that same date in 1982, American computer scientist and programmer, co-founder of Pownce, Leah Culver.
Listener Birthdays
* 5 – Michael Corlett
* 8 – John Clifford
* 8 – Mark, the Encaffeinated ONE, host of The Weird Show
* 10 – John Noble from the Island
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 5, 2025
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