Under Friday, November 5, the book of history records, among other things:
1556: In the Mughal Empire near Panipat, Akbar’s troops and his guardian Bairam Khan defeat the army of Hemu, who had taken power as a usurper in Delhi, in the Second Battle of Panipat.
1576: Holland and Zealand form the “Ghent Pacification” with the southern provinces of the Netherlands, a peace and friendship alliance to expel the Spaniards.
1801: In Poitiers, Jean Alexandre demonstrates his electric needle telegraph for the first time.
1911: Italy annexes the Emirates of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica.
1916: In Lublin and Warsaw, the Central Powers have an independent Polish state proclaimed.
1956: British and French troops are put ashore in Port Said. They are supposed to set a bridgehead to occupy the entire Suez Canal zone.
1956: The UN General Assembly calls on the USSR to withdraw its troops from Hungary.
1976: The writers’ association of the GDR excludes the author Reiner Kunze.
1996: Democratic US President Bill Clinton is confirmed in office by the electorate.
1996: Russian President Boris Yeltsin is undergoing successful heart bypass surgery.
1996: The Tyrolean ski racer Richard Kröll (27) had a fatal accident in a traffic accident in the Zillertal.
2006: In Nicaragua, the former Sandinista revolutionary leader and former head of state Daniel Ortega (60) is elected president again 16 years after he was voted out of office.
Birthdays: Christian Schneller, east. Writer (1831-1908); Raymond Duchamp-Villon, French sculptor (1876-1918); Maria Stader, Switzerland. Opera singer (1911-1999); Marie Osborne Yeats, US child and silent film star (1911-2010); Peter Moilliet, Switzerland. Sculptor (1921-2016); Georges Cziffra, French pianist (1921-1994); John Berger, British writer (1926-2017); Hermann Goepfert, German artist (1926-1982); Ike Turner, US rock musician (1931-2007); Uwe Seeler, German footballer (1936); Art Garfunkel, US singer (1941).
Days of Death: Dietrich von Choltitz, German General (1894-1966); Art Tatum, US jazz musician (1910-1956); Gustav Wetter, east. Jesuit / philosopher (1911-1991); Robert Maxwell, British media manager (1923-1991); Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician, multiple prime minister between 1974 and 2002 (1925-2006); Peter Quendler, Caritas coordinator (“Neighbors in Need”) (1936-2011); Jean Eustache, French film director (1938-1981); Paul Schulmeister, east Journalist (1942-2011).
Name days: Emmerich, Berthilde, Blandine, Imre, Bernhard, Elisabeth, Zacharias, Martin, Jakob.