November 5

The Catholicon, compiled in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc, a probable priest, was printed in Tréguier. It had six thousand entries in Breton, French and Latin, and was the first dictionary of both Breton and French. Guy Fawkes Night is a good day to look up a word or two; the plotters would not have had a dictionary this good.

Abraham Lincoln removed George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac. McClellan later ran against Lincoln as the Democratic candidate in 1864. After a big election swing, the capital is reordering itself; commanders get replaced when the mood changes.

Susan B. Anthony voted for the first time, in defiance of the law. She was later fined $100. Midterm results are still being counted; her ballot was one of the first that people argued about afterward.

The Indian Space Research Organisation launched the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe. It reached Mars orbit in 2014 and made India the first Asian nation to do so. NASA's Swift telescope just fell back to Earth after a failed rescue; getting up there is the easy part.

Lost his right arm in war, then commissioned piano concertos for the left hand alone.

A British ichthyologist who has over a dozen fish species named in her honor.

Won the Best Actress Oscar twice, as Scarlett O'Hara and as Blanche DuBois.