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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49385)	11/5/2005 10:11:59 AM
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This Day in History Guy Fawkes, a conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot, being arrested while attempting to blow up the … 1605: Gunpowder Plot Celebrated with fireworks as Guy Fawkes Day, this English holiday marks the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, when Roman Catholics led by Robert Catesby tried to blow up Parliament, the king, and his family this day in 1605. More events on this day 1998: The journal Nature published a report that DNA testing had confirmed (still disputed by some) that Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, fathered at least one child by his slave Sally Hemings, as had long been alleged. 1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937.Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented third term as president of the United States. 1930: Sinclair Lewis.Social critic Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first American to receive the honour. 1914: France and Britain declared war on Turkey, widening the conflict of World War I. 1838: Honduras declared its absolute independence, seceding from the United Provinces of Central America. 1556: Mughal power was restored in India following Bayram Khan's victory at the second Battle of Panipat.