This day in #History 0511

This day in #history 0511

November 5th

1789 – French National Meeting declares all citizens equal under law

1811 – El Salvador’s 1st battle against Spain for independence

1838 – Honduras declares independence of Central
American Federation

1953 – Nobel prize for physics awarded/ appended
on Frederik Zernicke

1975 – Sao Tome & Principe adopts constitution

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.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1854 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist , Nobel Prize
laureate (d . 1941)

1885 – Will Durant , US , author/ historian (Story of
Civilization)

FAMOUS DEATHS

1930 – Christiaan Eijkman , Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel.Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b . 1858 )

1944 – Alexis Carrel , French surgeon and biologist ,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(b . 1873 )

1975 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(b . 1909 )

Famous Wedding

1940 – American author and journalist ” The Old Man
and the Sea ” Ernest Hemingway marries journalist
Martha Gellhorn

1977 – 43 rd US President George W . Bush (31 ) weds
Laura Welch ( 31) at The First United Methodist
Church in Midland, Texas