On This Day
1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament, where he had planted gunpowder in an attempt to blow up the building and kill King James I of England.[1]
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James VI of Scotland and I of England by a group of English Roman Catholics, led by Robert Catesby, who considered their actions attempted tyrannicide and who sought regime change in England after decades of religious persecution.
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Born On This Day
1494 – Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (d. 1576)
Hans Sachs (5 November 1494 – 19 January 1576) was a German Meistersinger (“mastersinger”), poet, playwright, and shoemaker.
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- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for November 6 November 6, 2024Picture of the day A musician playing a tenor saxophone at a jazz festival in Uruguay. Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone, was born on this day in 1814.
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