Will Durant 1885 - American historian, philosopher, author, Natalie Schafer 1900 - Actress ("Gilligan's Island"), Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye) 1911 - Singer, guitarist, and actor
Art Garfunkel 1941 - Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Simon & Garfunkel), Sam Shepard 1943 - Actor, screenwriter, Peter Noone 1947 - Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Herman's Hermits)
1605 - The "Gunpowder Plot" attempted by Guy Fawkes failed when he was captured before he could blow up the English Parliament. Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated every November 5th in Britain to celebrate his failure to blow up all the members of Parliament and King James I.
1895 - George B. Selden received the first U.S. patent for an automobile. He sold the rights for $200,000 four years later.
1935 - The game "Monopoly" was introduced by Parker Brothers Company.
1946 - John F. Kennedy was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives at the age of 29.
1959 - The American Football League was formed.
1990 - Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Kach movement, was shot to death after a speech at a New York Hotel. His assassin, Egyptian El Sayyid, was later convicted of the murder and was sentenced to life in prison for his part in the World Trade Center bombing.
1994 - George Foreman, 45, became boxing's oldest heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas, NV.
1999 - U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft Corp. enjoyed "monopoly power".
2009 - At Fort Hood, near Kileen, TX, Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 people and wounded 30 others.
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