Talk:November 5

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November 5: Guy Fawkes Night in the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries 1605 – The Gunpowder Plot: Thomas Knyvet arrested explosives expert Guy Fawkes (pictured) and foiled Robert Catesby's plot to destroy the Houses of Parliament in London during the State Opening. 1688 – Glorious Revolution: Protestant Prince William of Orange landed at Brixham in Devon, on his way to depose his father-in-law King James II, the last Catholic monarch of England. 1838 – The collapse of the Federal Republic of Central America began with Nicaragua seceding from the union. 1872 – American Suffragette Susan B. Anthony voted in the U.S. presidential election for the first time in Rochester, New York. She was later fined US$100 for her participation, which she never paid, and the government never pursued her for nonpayment. 1917 – St. Tikhon of Moscow was elected Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church. More events: November 4 – November 5 – November 6 Archive – By email – More anniversaries... It is now 07:41, June 15, 2008 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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[edit] Ron Paul

His fund raising accomplishment is not a globally notable event. He has no chance of becoming president and he will be forgotten long before the election. The record is only within the GOP party so that means that someone else has done better than him in the democratic party. Neither record would be globally notable. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 13:10, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Then you can delete it when he's out, but you're no Nostradamus. And it's not true that a Democrat has beaten his record, this is for largest amount collected ONLINE. Do your research... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.46.116.194 (talk) 06:06, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

When I made my comment, this is what the event was listed as:

• 2007 - Republican antiwar presidential candidate Ron Paul raises over $4.2 million dollars in 24 hours to break the record for most money raised in day by a GOP candidate ever.

There is no mention of online in there - I shouldn't have to do research to get an understanding of why something is notable. As it is written "to break the record for most money raised in day" is not terribly significant because the leading democrat raised nearly $6.2 million on June 30. Additional notability does not come from segregating records by party (GOP) because we would next have the record for fund raising by a black, white, women, disabled, brown-haired, Californian, etc. These "records" are insignificant since they will all be broken in the next election (or before the end of this one). It is especially less notable because his campaign didn't even organize it. But back to the question of global notability, how does this affect the price of tea in China? The comment that "you can delete it when he's out" supports the argument that it is not notable enough for inclusion because the fact that he is in or out shouldn't affect the long term notability of the event. In 10 years someone should be looking back and saying "wow, that was a huge accomplishment". -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 15:21, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Back To The Future

November 5th, 1955 is the date in the first movie that Marty travels back to after Doc Brown programs the date in, recounting it as "a red letter day in history" (the day he came up with the idea for the Flux Capacitor). This is sometimes referred to as 'Flux Capacitor Day'. Not really Wikipedia article material, but hey, just putting it out there. --Thaddius (talk) 17:31, 25 March 2008 (UTC)