An armed man broke into the official home of then Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien on November 5, 1995, with the intention of murdering him. Andre Dallaire spent 20 minutes outside 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa waving at security cameras before he broke into the official residence about 3am. He was putting on his gloves when he was confronted by Chretien's wife Aline, shown here.
She rushed to the bedroom and locked the door, waking up her sleeping husband. The prime minister told her she had a bad dream and told her to go to sleep. Instead she called the police stationed outside the residence.
It took the Royal Canadian Mounted Police seven minutes to come to their rescue, because the first officer had forgotten his key. In June of 1996, Dallaire, was found guilty of attempting to kill Jean Chretien (shown here). But a judge found him not criminally responsible for his actions because he was was schizophrenic.
Suffragette Susan B. Anthony cast a ballot in the US presidential election on November 5, 1872, in breach of the law. Anthony was arrested and fined $100 for the crime of voting as a woman.
"I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty," she told the judge. The judge declined to pursue the case further, and the fine was never paid. After years of religious persecution, a group of English Catholics attempted to blow up Parliamenton November 5, 1605.
Known as 'The Gunpowder Plot', the bid failed when one of the conspirators - Guy Fawkes - was discovered in a baseme.
