^B{^#!16!5 November^N! Guy Fawkes' Night in Britain. Feast day of Saints Elisabeth and Zachary, St Galation, St Bertilla of Chelles, and St Episteme.
^B{1854^B} The combined British and French armies defeated the Russians at the Battle of Inkerman during the Crimean War. ^B{1912^B} The British Board of Film Censors was appointed. ^B{1914^B} Cyprus was annexed by Britain on the outbreak of war with Turkey. ^B{1919^B} Rudolph Valentino, the archetypal romantic screen lover, married actress Jean Acker; the marriage lasted less than six hours. ^B{1927^B} Britain's first automatic traffic lights began functioning, in Wolverhampton. ^B{1968^B} Richard Nixon was elected 37th US president. ^B{1990^B} Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the militant Jewish Defense League and Israel's extremist anti-Arab Kach party, was assassinated in a New York City hotel.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}James Elroy Flecker, English poet, ^B{1884^B}; John Haldane, Scottish scientist, ^B{1892^B}; Vivien Leigh, British actress, ^B{1913^B}; Lester Piggott, British jockey, ^B{1935^B}; Elke Sommer, German actress, ^B{1940^B}; Art Garfunkel, US singer and composer, ^B{1941^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Mack Sennett, US film producer, ^B{1960^B}; Maurice Utrillo, French painter, ^B{1955^B}; Al Capp, US cartoonist, ^B{1979^B}; Jacques Tati, French film actor and director, ^B{1982^B}; Vladimir Horowitz, US pianist, ^B{1989^B}; Robert Maxwell, British publishing and newspaper proprietor, ^B{1991^B}.
