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Thomas Percy was a member of the failed Gunpowder Plot. Following King James's accession to the English throne in 1603, Percy became disenchanted with the new king, who he supposed had reneged on his promises of toleration for English Catholics. He joined Robert Catesby's conspiracy to kill the King and his ministers by blowing up the House of Lords with gunpowder. Percy helped fund the group and secured the leases to properties in London, including the undercroft beneath the House of Lords where the gunpowder was placed. When the plot was exposed on 5 November 1605, Percy fled to the Midlands, catching up with other conspirators travelling to Dunchurch. At the border of Staffordshire, they were besieged by the Sheriff of Worcester and his men. Percy was reportedly killed by the same musket ball as Catesby and was buried nearby. His body was later exhumed, and his head exhibited outside Parliament. (This article is part of a featured topic: Gunpowder Plot.)
In the News
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- Maia Sandu (pictured) is re-elected President of Moldova.
- In baseball, the Yokohama DeNA BayStars defeat the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks to win the Japan Series.
- A canopy collapse at Serbia's Novi Sad railway station kills fourteen people.
- The ruins of a Maya city, dubbed Valeriana, are discovered in Campeche, Mexico.
Selected anniversaries
[edit]November 5: Guy Fawkes Night in Great Britain and some Commonwealth countries
- 1138 – Lý Anh Tông was enthroned as the emperor of Đại Việt at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
- 1943 – World War II: An unknown aircraft dropped four bombs on Vatican City, which maintained neutrality during the war.
- 1995 – Aline Chrétien (pictured) thwarted André Dallaire's attempt to assassinate her husband, Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien, by locking the bedroom door in 24 Sussex Drive, their official residence in Ottawa.
- 2003 – American serial killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of first-degree murder.
- 2013 – The Indian Space Research Organisation launched the Mars Orbiter Mission, India's first interplanetary probe.
- Louis Bertrand Castel (b. 1688)
- Edwin Flack (b. 1873)
- James Robert Baker (d. 1997)
- Habibollah Asgaroladi (d. 2013)
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[edit]- “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” — Isaac Asimov
- “When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.” — Isaac Asimov
- “John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.” — Isaac Asimov
- “Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.” — Mark Twain
- “The more you know, the more you realise that you know nothing.” — Socrates
- “The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein
- “We must respect other religions even as we respect our own. Mere tolerance thereof is not enough.” — Gandhi
- “The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” — George Santayana
