Wednesday November 5, 2025
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

is the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are until the end of the year. The day of the week is .

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mercredi.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, months, and days ago
  • months since then
  • is in the th week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is not a leap year

Historical Event(s)

1530
The St. Felix’s Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands.
The Glorious Revolution begins: William of Orange lands at Brixham.
Seven Years’ War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time.
The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China – the first US Naval visit to China since 1949.
Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years of a life sentence for terrorism and treason.
Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982.

Who were born on ?

1494
Hans Sachs, German mastersinger (d. 1576)
Jacqueline Auriol, French aviatrix (d. 2000)
Douglass North, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
Uwe Seeler, German footballer
Bernard-Henri Lévy, French public intellectual
Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist
Michalis Hatzigiannis, Greek/Cypriot songwriter and singer
Romi Dames, Japanese/American actress
Nikolai Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian hockey player

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