Shimla, Nov.5 Keekli Bureau
2013
India launched its first interplanetary spacecraft, the Mars Orbiter Mission, which was unmanned.
1998
The journal Nature published a report that DNA testing had confirmed (still disputed by some) that a member of Thomas Jefferson’s family had fathered a child with the slave Sally Hemings; the testing, however, was unable to definitively prove that Jefferson was the father.
1940
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented third term as president of the United States.
1930
Social critic Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first American to receive the honour.
1914
France and Britain declared war on Turkey, widening the conflict of World War I.
1913
British actress Vivien Leigh—who achieved motion picture immortality by playing two of American literature’s most-celebrated Southern belles, Scarlett O’Hara and Blanche DuBois—was born in India.
1872
Susan B. Anthony, a leader in the American women’s suffrage movement, cast a ballot in the presidential election, and she was later arrested for voting illegally and convicted in a trial she called “the greatest outrage history ever witnessed.”
1838
Honduras declared its absolute independence, seceding from the United Provinces of Central America.
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Mughal power was restored in India following Bayram Khān’s victory at the second Battle of Panipat.
