On this day: November 5
POSTED: 09:11 PM PST Nov 04, 2012
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Nov 04, 2012
Guy Fawkes is caught red-handed, Susan B. Anthony votes, George Foreman becomes the oldest Heavyweight Champion ever, Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death, and tragedy strikes Fort Hood, all on this day.
Ollie Atkins/White House photographer
1968: Republican Richard M. Nixon wins the presidency, carrying 32 states and earning 43.4 percent of the vote to defeat Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace, who received 42.7 percent and 13.5 percent of the vote, respectively.
