Template:Selected anniversaries/November 5

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  1780: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. born. He will invent a variant of the (now-discredited) Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.

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  Highwayman Dick Turpin of Mars takes parting shot at Hopalong Cassidy.

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  Art thieves frame Hopalong Cassidy for crimes of Hopalong Perfidy.

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  Wax golem chow tastes better than it looks.

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  Venn diagram computes the intersection of "Bread mold flavor", "Best flavor", and "Crazy talk".

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  Poetry ensemble Three Baby Birds to perform their best known work, Hungry Morning, at Kennedy Center for the Arts.

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  Fenestraria produces optical fibers, transmits light to subterranean photosynthetic sites.

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  Kinetoscope overcomes sense of shame, reveals interior.

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  Electric S'mores now open in Brasília!