📜 This Day in History
November 5
- 1138Lý Anh Tông was enthroned as the emperor of Đại Việt at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
- 1757Seven Years' War: Prussian forces led by Frederick the Great defeated the allied French and Habsburg armies at the Battle of Rossbach.
1943World War II: An unknown aircraft dropped four bombs on Vatican City, which maintained neutrality during the war.- 1950Korean War: The 27th British Commonwealth Brigade succeeded in preventing a Chinese breakthrough at the Battle of Pakchon.
- 1995Aline Chrétien thwarted André Dallaire's attempt to assassinate her husband, Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien, by locking the bedroom door in 24 Sussex Drive, their official residence in Ottawa.
- 2013The Indian Space Research Organisation launched the Mars Orbiter Mission, India's first interplanetary probe.
