On This Day, Nov. 5: Fort Hood taking pictures leaves 13 useless

On This Day, Nov. 5: Fort Hood taking pictures leaves 13 useless

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Soldier's crosses -- boots, rifles and helmets -- sit on the rostrum on the memorial service for the 12 troopers and one civilian killed at Fort Hood U.S Military Put up close to Killeen, Texas, on November 10, 2009. File Photograph by Tannen Maury/Pool | <a href=License Photo” peak=”532″ onclick=”st_ss_sh1();” src=”https://cdnph.upi.com/svc/sv/upi/6151667601556/2022/1/c184a4c99a56cee01a22a7f26b4990e5/On-This-Day-Fort-Hood-shooting-leaves-13-dead.jpg” title=”Soldier’s crosses — boots, rifles and helmets — sit on the rostrum on the memorial service for the 12 troopers and one civilian killed at Fort Hood U.S Military Put up close to Killeen, Texas, on November 10, 2009. File Photograph by Tannen Maury/Pool | License Photo” width=”800″>

Soldier’s crosses — boots, rifles and helmets — sit on the rostrum on the memorial service for the 12 troopers and one civilian killed at Fort Hood U.S Military Put up close to Killeen, Texas, on November 10, 2009. File Photograph by Tannen Maury/Pool | License Photo

Nov. 5 (UPI) — On this date in historical past:

In 1605, Man Fawkes and fellow conspirators tried to explode the English Parliament and failed. They had been captured, tried and beheaded.

In 1854, mixed British-French forces scored a decisive victory over the Russians within the Crimea.

In 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony, in defiance of the legislation, voted for the primary time. She is later fined $100.

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In 1912, Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected twenty eighth president of america, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt.

In 1916, an armed confrontation in Everett, Wash., between members of the Industrial Staff of the World union and native police resulted in what’s turn out to be referred to as the Everett Bloodbath.

In 1930, the primary industrial tv broadcast was aired.

In 1940, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected to an unprecedented third time period. He gained a fourth time period in 1944.

In 1968, Republican Richard Nixon was elected thirty seventh president of america, defeating Democrat Hubert Humphrey.

In 1968, Shirley Chisholm grew to become the primary African-American girl elected to Congress, representing New York’s twelfth Congressional District as a Democrat. She served seven phrases in workplace.

In 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini denounced the U.S. Embassy in Tehran as a “center of spying and plotting.” Hours earlier Iranian college students seized the compound taking 52 American diplomats and residents hostage sparking a disaster that might final 444 days and convey down the presidency of Jimmy Carter.

File Photograph by Mohammad Kheirkhah/UPI

In 1990, an Egyptian-born gunman, apparently appearing alone, assassinated Meir Kahane, the U.S. native who based the militant Jewish Protection League.

In 1991, the physique of British media mogul Robert Maxwell was found in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands.

In 1996, U.S. President Invoice Clinton was re-elected, defeating Republican challenger Bob Dole.

In 2006, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death for his role in the 1982 Dujail Massacre which resulted within the deaths of greater than 140 Shitte Muslims.

In 2007, Google unveiled the beta version of the Android cell working system. The primary industrial model of the software program was launched in September 2008.

In 2009, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, killed 13 individuals, together with 10 army personnel, and injured 31 others in a shooting frenzy at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas. He was discovered responsible and sentenced to demise in 2013.

In 2017, a gunman opened fire at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing 26 individuals, together with an unborn little one. A civilian shot the gunman, who escaped and later died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

In 2018, Voyager 2 left the heliosphere and entered interstellar space, changing into the second man-made object to take action.

Voyager 2 took close-up pictures of Neptune in August 1989, three a long time earlier than leaving the heliosphere. File Photograph courtesy of NASA

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