NOVEMBER 5
1994:Forty-five year old George Foreman, also known for his preaching, hamburgers and television pitches, becomes the oldest heavyweight champion of boxing, besting 26-year-old Michael Moorer in 10 rounds at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Foreman won the title for the first time 21 years earlier, against Joe Frazier in 1973.
1872: Women's suffrage activist Susan B. Anthony attempts to vote for the first time, for Republican candidates including President Ulysses S. Grant. The suffragist leader would be fined $100 — which she would not pay.
1925: Sidney Reilly, the world's first "superspy," is executed by the OGPU, the Soviet secret police, in Moscow. Reilly, who was born Georgi Rosenblum in Tsarist Russia in 1874, had led an illustrious, globe-trotting career primarily working for British intelligence, yet he was believed to have spied on behalf of several other nations as well. He was a major inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond character.
1895:George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1605:Guy Fawkes, "Remember the 5th of November", caught in Westminster in plot to destroy House of Lords.
1913:Cyprus is annexed by Britain, and Britain with France declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
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