On this day in history

1605: Guy Fawkes is betrayed and arrested in an attempt to blow up the British Parliament in the "Gunpowder Plot." Ever since, England has celebrated Guy Fawkes Day.
1653: The Iroquois League signs a peace treaty with the French, vowing not to wage war with other tribes under French protection.
1814: Having decided to abandon the Niagara frontier, the American army blows up Fort Erie.
1872: Susan B. Anthony is arrested for trying to vote.
1912: Woodrow Wilson is elected 28th president of the United States.
1914: France and Great Britain declare war on Turkey.
1935: Parker Brothers company launches Monopoly, a game of real estate and capitalism.
1940: President Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected for third term.
1968: Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn, New York, becomes the first elected African American woman to serve in the House of Representatives.
1968: Richard Nixon is elected 37th president of the United States.
1995: Andre Dallaire's attempt to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien is foiled when the minister's wife locks the door.
2003: Gary Ridgway, known as the Green River Killer, pleads guilty to 48 counts of murder.
2006: Former president of Iraq Saddam Hussein, along with Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, is sentenced to death for the massacre of 148 Shi'a Muslims in 1982.
2007: Chang'e 1, China's first lunar satellite, begins its orbit of the moon.
2009: The deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation occurs at Fort Hood, Texas, when U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13 and wounds 29

Source: HistoryNet.com