American writer Ida Tarbell was born on November 5, 1857 in Erie County, Pennsylvania She wrote: “It was to these two people, then, that Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809. His birthplace was a farm Thomas Lincoln owned, and near Elizabeth(town), Ky. The home into which the little chap came was the ordinary one of the poorer Western pioneer—a one-roomed cabin with a huge outside chimney. Although in many ways it was no doubt uncomfortable, there is no reason to believe it was an unhappy or a squalid one. The log house, with its great fireplace and heavy walls, is not such a bad place to live in—some of us are thankful to get away into the country to one now and then even in winter. Its furniture was simple, and no doubt much of it homemade. The very utensils were of home manufacture. The feathers in the beds were plucked from the geese Nancy Lincoln raised. She patched her own quilts, spun her own linsey-woolsey. No doubt Thomas Lincoln made Abraham’s cradle and Nancy Lincoln spun the cloth for his first garments. They raised their own corn, dried their own fruit, hunted their own game, raised their own pork and beef. It was the hard life of the pioneer where every man provides for his own needs. It had discomforts, but it had, too, that splendid independence and ​resourcefulness which comes only from being sufficient to your own needs.” From: “The Parents of Abraham Lincoln” Image of Ida Tarbell from 1904 via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected for a third term in office on November 5, 1940. Image of FDR in 1940 via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

World’s first catapult launching from a ship under way made from U.S.S. North Carolina in Pensacola Bay November 5, 1915 via Florida Memory, public domain

American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born on today’s date November 5, 1850 in Johnstown, Wisconsin. Here is one of her works from her collection “Poems of Passion” which was first published in 1883 and titled… COURAGE “There is a courage, a majestic thing That springs forth from the brow of pain, full-grown, Minerva-like, and dares all dangers known, And all the threatening future yet may bring; Crowned with the helmet of great suffering; Serene with that grand strength by martyrs shown, When at the stake they die and make no moan, And even as the flames leap up are heard to sing: A courage so sublime and unafraid, It wears its sorrows like a coat of mail; And Fate, the archer, passes by dismayed, Knowing his best barbed arrows needs must fail To pierce a soul so armored and arrayed That Death himself might look on it and quail.” Photo: Ella Wheeler Wilcox – Frontispiece from her book of poems “Three Women” (c. 1897) Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

On November 5, 1911 an American aviator named Calbraith Perry Rodgers completed the first transcontinental flight across North America. His journey from New York to California took 49 days and included multiple stops. Image: “Cal” Rodgers enrobed with the American flag upon his arrival in Pasadena, California on November 5, 1911 via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

Parker Brothers began marketing Monopoly on November 5, 1935. Cartoonist F.O Alexander designed the game board with streets named for those in Atlantic City and characters Milburn Pennybags and Officer Edgar Mallory ordering Jake the Jailbird to “Go To Jail.” Image by Mark Strozier, CCA-2.0 Generic via Wikimedia Commons.

“Robert McCray; Seaman; Lost on the U.S.S. Alcedo, November 5, 1917” The U.S.S. Alcedo was the first American war vessel lost during The Great War (WWI). She was sunk by a German U-Boat torpedo on November 5, 1917. McCray and 20 others lost their lives during the attack. Image: New York Public Library Digital Collections, Public Domain

Image of General Benjamin Franklin Butler during the American Civil War Benjamin’s older brother was named Andrew Jackson Butler. Their father, Captain John Butler, was a Veteran of the War of 1812. Benjamin Franklin Butler (shown) was born on November 5, 1818 in Deerfield, New Hampshire Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

Effie Jardine with Mrs. Coolidge at Chrysanthemum Show on November 5, 1925 Effie was the wife of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture William Jardine. Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain