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November 5th
1791 ~ Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer.
1847 ~ Jefferson Davis was elected to the U.S. Senate.
1890 ~ Birthday of Fritz Lang, film director.
1901 ~ Birthday of Werner Heisenberg, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1932.
1901 ~ Birthday of Walt Disney, film producer.
1926 ~ Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, debuted.
1933 ~ Prohibition ended: The Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. This overturned the 18th Amendment, which had outlawed the inter-state sale of alcohol.
1969 ~ Life Magazine reported the My Lai Massacre.
1995 ~ The Sri Lankan armed forces took Jaffna from the Tamil Tigers.
2006 ~ Death of David Bronstein, Ukrainian-born chess grandmaster.
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