On This Day in History — November 5

• 2015 — An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing up to 9 deaths and 19 missing.
• 2013 — India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
• 2009 — U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.
• 2007 — China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
• 2007 — Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.
• 2006 — Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi'a Muslims.

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Notable Births on November 5

• 1993 — Hideya Tawada, Japanese actor and model
• 1992 — Odell Beckham Jr., American football player
• 1992 — Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
• 1991 — Flume, Australian DJ and producer
• 1991 — Shōdai Naoya, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1989 — Andrew Boyce, English footballer

Notable Deaths on November 5

• 2015 — George Barris, American engineer and car designer (b. 1925)
• 2015 — Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (b. 1923)
• 2015 — Soma Edirisinghe, Sri Lankan businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1939)
• 2015 — Czesław Kiszczak, Polish general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (b. 1925)
• 2015 — Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (b. 1930)
• 2014 — Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (b. 1921)

Sports on November 5

• NBA: Philadelphia 76ers @ Detroit Pistons — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NBA: Atlanta Hawks @ Washington Wizards — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• College Football: Ball State Cardinals @ Massachusetts Minutemen — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• College Football: Toledo Rockets @ Sacramento State Hornets — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NBA: Milwaukee Bucks @ Boston Celtics — 00:30 UTC Scheduled
• NBA: Charlotte Hornets @ Brooklyn Nets — 00:30 UTC Scheduled

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On This Day in History — November 6

• 2013 — Several small bombs explode outside a provincial office of the Chinese Communist Party in the northern city of Taiyuan, killing at least one person and wounding eight others.
• 2012 — Barack Obama is reelected President of the United States; Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
• 2004 — An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 150.
• 1999 — Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
• 1995 — Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore, the first time the city had a NFL team since 1983 when they were the Baltimore Colts.
• 1986 — Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 !21⁄2 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.

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Notable Births on November 6

• 1995 — Addin Fonua-Blake, Australian-Tongan rugby league player
• 1994 — Isaah Yeo, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 — Josh Wakefield, English footballer
• 1992 — Paula Kania, Polish tennis player
• 1990 — Dorothea Barth Jörgensen, Swedish model
• 1990 — André Schürrle, German footballer

Notable Deaths on November 6

• 2017 — Richard F. Gordon Jr., American naval officer, aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (b. 1929)
• 2015 — Bobby Campbell, English footballer and manager (b. 1937)
• 2015 — Yitzhak Navon, Israeli author, playwright, and politician, 5th President of Israel (b. 1921)
• 2015 — Ri Ul-sol, North Korean marshal and politician (b. 1921)
• 2014 — Maggie Boyle, English singer and flute player (b. 1956)
• 2014 — Tommy Macpherson, Scottish soldier and businessman (b. 1920)

Sports on November 6

• NHL: Utah Mammoth @ Montreal Canadiens — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NHL: Vegas Golden Knights @ Detroit Red Wings — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NHL: Chicago Blackhawks @ Tampa Bay Lightning — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NHL: St. Louis Blues @ New Jersey Devils — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NHL: Carolina Hurricanes @ New York Islanders — 00:00 UTC Scheduled
• NHL: Philadelphia Flyers @ New York Rangers — 00:00 UTC Scheduled

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