Celebrated with fireworks as Guy Fawkes Day, this English holiday marks the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, when Roman Catholics led by Robert Catesby tried to blow up Parliament, the king, and his family this day in 1605.
| 1998: | | The journal Nature published a report that DNA testing had confirmed (still disputed by some) that Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, fathered at least one child by his slave Sally Hemings, as had long been alleged. |
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| 1940: | | | Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented third term as president of the United States. |
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| 1930: | | | Social critic Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first American to receive the honour. |
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| 1914: | | France and Britain declared war on Turkey, widening the conflict of World War I. |
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| 1838: | | | Honduras declared its absolute independence, seceding from the United Provinces of Central America. |
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| 1556: | | Mughal power was restored in India following Bayram Kh─n's victory at the second Battle of Panipat. |
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