Today in History: Monday, November 05, 2012

On Nov. 5, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office, beating Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie.

1605 The Gunpowder Plot failed when Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament.

1872 Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in a presidential election.

1912 Woodrow Wilson was elected president, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt.

1935 Parker Brothers began marketing the board game "Monopoly."

1956 Britain and France landed troops in Egypt during fighting between Egyptian and Israeli forces around the Suez Canal.

1968 Republican Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace.

1974 Ella Grasso of Connecticut became the first woman elected governor in the United States without succeeding her husband.

1994 Former President Ronald Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer's disease.

1994 George Foreman became boxing's oldest heavyweight champion at age 45 by knocking out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas.

1996 President Bill Clinton won a second term over former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.

1999 A federal judge declared Microsoft Corp. a monopoly.

2006 Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for crimes against humanity.

2009 A shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas left 13 people dead; Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was charged in the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base.