Wikipedia:Main Page history/2015 November 5

The four

Jersey cow mushroom (left, right) and rosy spike-cap (centre)

• ... that the Jersey cow mushroom is thought to be parasitised by the rosy spike-cap (both pictured)?
• ... that jazz violinist Karen Briggs received the moniker "Lady in Red" while featuring as a soloist in Yanni's Live at the Acropolis tour?
• ... that "Bad Timing", an Adventure Time episode, is visually framed to have its main action occur in the center, while polygonal creatures comprise the outer margins?
• ... that the mutineers of the Argentine 1987 Carapintada mutiny were named "Carapintadas" ("Painted Faces") for their use of military camouflage?
• ... that the
  Butrinto and Lepanto
  ?
• ... that
  Lyubow Demeetriyevna Oosava and her fellow students of the Moscow Architectural Institute
  were required to study architecture and manufacture munitions during World War II?
• ... that L'Isle-Adam is a picturesque town with a beach beside the River Oise in Val-d'Oise?
• ... that his support of a women's suffrage bill resulted in Gustav A. Hoff being labeled "Petticoat Hoff"?

• At least 36 people are killed when an Antonov An-12 cargo plane crashes near Juba, South Sudan.
• Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta (pictured) resigns over the fatal Colectiv nightclub fire.
• Cyclone Chapala becomes the first hurricane-force storm on record to strike mainland Yemen.
• In horse racing, Michelle Payne becomes the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup, riding Prince of Penzance.
• In baseball, the Kansas City Royals defeat the New York Mets to win the World Series.

• Ongoing events:
  • European migrant crisis
• Recent deaths
  :
  • Tom Graveney
  • Ahmed Chalabi
  • Günter Schabowski

November 5: Guy Fawkes Night in Great Britain and some Commonwealth countries (1605)

George B. McClellan

• 1138 – Lý Anh Tông was enthroned as emperor of Đại Việt at the age of two, starting a 37-year reign.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removed George B. McClellan (pictured) as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time.
• 1943 – World War II: An unknown aircraft dropped four bombs on Vatican City, which maintained neutrality during the war.
• 1990 – Ultra-Zionist rabbi Meir Kahane was assassinated in a New York City hotel by an Arab gunman.
• 1995 – André Dallaire was thwarted in his attempt to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien when Chrétien's wife locked the door.

• More anniversaries:
  • November 4
  • November 5
  • November 6