Remember Remember the 5th of November...

[ohdaho]

Happy 55th!

[MidgetTodd]

Wut?

[Bad324]

im pretty sure its from a movie but I can't remember what

I remember the 5th of November as the day that Art Moddell became the first person that justifiable murder crept up in my sadisitic little head

[cg2112]

November 5th is the day that, at least according to the flyer that was on my car, that the Democrats get to vote. I'm going as soon as I get out of work!

[cg2112]

(November 5th, 1955 is the day that Doc thought up the idea for the flux capacitor, after hitting his head on the toilet - I think it was the toilet)

[drew95gt]

It's from V for Vendetta...

[shittygsxr]

It's from V for Vendetta...

Awesome movie

[magley64]

I agree, V for Vendetta was/is great.

[ohdaho]

you guys suck...thats a picture of a flux capacitor.

[drew95gt]

you guys suck...thats a picture of a flux capacitor.

I know that, but the quote was from V for Vendetta...which as IP said was based "sort of" on the legend of Guy Fawkes...hence the masks.

[drew95gt]

I agree, V for Vendetta was/is great.

Hell yeah, awesome movie.

[magley64]

you guys suck...thats a picture of a flux capacitor.

Obviously the picture was a reference to doc brown discovering time travel, but the quote was a reference to...

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,

The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,

I know of no reason

Why Gunpowder Treason

Should ever be forgot.

Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent

To blow up King and Parliament.

Three-score barrels of powder below

To prove old England's overthrow;

By God's providence he was catch'd

With a dark lantern and burning match.

Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.

Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!

[chevysoldier]

5 November:

1338 – Ly Anh Tong is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, starting a 37-year reign.

1499 – Publication of the Catholicon in Tréguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.

1530 – The St. Felix's Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands.

1605 – Gunpowder Plot: A conspiracy led by Robert Catesby to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is thwarted when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the House of Lords.

1688 – The Glorious Revolution begins: William of Orange lands at Brixham.

1743 – Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.

1757 – Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.

1768 – Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.

1780 – French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.

1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.

1838 – The Federal Republic of Central America begins to disintegrate when Nicaragua separates from the Federation.

1854 – Crimean War: The Battle of Inkerman.

1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time.

1862 – Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.

1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.

1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.

1911 – After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.

1913 – King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.

1916 – The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.

1916 – The Everett Massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.

1917 – October Revolution: In Tallinn, Estonia, Communist leader Jaan Anvelt leads revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Estonia and Russia are still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 23 date).

1917 – St. Tikhon of Moscow is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.

1937 – Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.

1942 – The Second Battle of El Alamein is won by the British in El Alamein, Egypt.

1945 – Colombia joins the United Nations.

1967 – The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. Survivors include Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees.

1970 – Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).

1983 – Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.

1986 – USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China — the first US Naval visit to China since 1949.

1987 – Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years of a life sentence for terrorism and treason.

1990 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.

1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.

1996 – President of Pakistan Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan.

2006 – Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982.

2007 – China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon.

2009 – US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13 and wounds 30 at Fort Hood, Texas in the largest mass shooting at a US military installation.

[hollywood3586]

I mean really?! ^

I think you need to get off the computer for a while.

[Bad324]

I mean really?! ^

I think you need to get off the computer for a while.

copy paste woman...get back in the kitchen, grab me a beer and a sammich please

[Cypress]

I mean really?! ^

I think you need to get off the computer for a while.

copy paste woman...get back in the kitchen, grab me a beer and a sammich please