November 5: Facts & Historical Events On This Day

Donald Trump was reelected as President of the United States of America.

Trump's win shocked the Democrats, who were sure Kamala Harris would be the nation's next President.

ABBA released “Voyage,” their ninth and final studio album.

Their previous album, "The Visitors," came out in 1981, over 40 years before "Voyage." The group split in 1983, stating they'd never perform together again. However, they reunited in 2016 and recorded two songs for "Voyage" in 2018.

Japan recognized its first legal same-sex couple.

Koyuki Higashi and Hiroko Matsuhara were officially the first same-sex couple to register their relationship in Tokyo, Japan.

The epic science fiction film Interstellar was released.

With a runtime of 169 minutes, Interstellar is one of Christopher Nolan's most memorable movies.

Spacecraft Change 1 entered lunar orbit at 02:15 UT and became the first Chinese spacecraft to orbit the moon successfully.

Change 1 was launched on October 24, 2007, to collect data from mapping the moon's surface. After having orbited the moon over 589 times, it landed on the moon's surface on March 1, 2009. It became the first Chinese space mission to make contact with the moon.

Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death after being found guilty of crimes against humanity.

It took the Iraqi Special Tribunal more than two years to lay the charges on the former Iraq President. Several incidents during the trial slowed down the process, including the attempted assassination of Saddam's lawyers and the replacement of one of the judges.

The first television show with an African American host, “The Nat King Cole Show,” aired on NBC.

Parker Brothers released the Monopoly board game.

First developed as "The Landlord's Game" by Elizabeth Magie Phillips, it was intended to be a teaching tool about the pitfalls of capitalism and monopolies. She sold the rights to Parker Brothers for $500.

Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel “Babbitt.”

A satire about the American middle class and the life of a typical office worker at the time. "...without hesitation, he considers it God's purpose that man should work, increase his income, and enjoy modern improvements."

George B. Selden was granted the patent for a gasoline internal combustion engine car.

His many amendments to his patent caused a 16-year delay in the patent's approval.

The musical “Cordelia’s Aspirations” was performed for the first time at Theatre Comique, New York, US.

Guy Fawkes was arrested while attempting to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London, England.

Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus observed a total lunar eclipse in Rome, Italy.

The 15th-century Breton-French-Latin dictionary called the Catholicon was published.

Although Jehan Lagadeuc wrote the trilingual dictionary in 1464, it wasn't published until 30 years later.