Friday, November 05, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

NOVEMBER 5
1994:At age 45, George Foreman becomes the oldest heavyweight champion of the world, 20 years after losing the title to Muhammad Ali at the “Rumble in the Jungle.” Foreman defeats 26-year-old Michael Moorer in 10 rounds.

1605: Guy Fawkes is arrested before he can blow up the British Parliament and kill King James I and the Protestant nobility. Nov. 5 is still celebrated as Guy Fawkes Night in Great Britain, with firework displays and the burning of Guy Fawkes effigies to celebrate his failure to destroy Parliament.

1872: Suffragette Susan B. Anthony casts a vote for Ulysses S. Grant in the 1872 presidential election. She will later be arrested and eventually fined $100, which she’ll refuse to pay throughout the rest of her life.

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