Template:Selected anniversaries/November 5
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.
1879: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell born. His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.
Highwayman Dick Turpin of Mars takes parting shot at Hopalong Cassidy.
Art thieves frame Hopalong Cassidy for crimes of Hopalong Perfidy.
Wax golem chow tastes better than it looks.
Poetry ensemble Three Baby Birds to perform their best known work, Hungry Morning, at Kennedy Center for the Arts.
Fenestraria produces optical fibers, transmits light to subterranean photosynthetic sites.
Kinetoscope overcomes sense of shame, reveals interior.
Electric S'mores now open in Brasília!
