On this day in …

* 1605, the "Gunpowder Plot" failed as Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament

* 1872, in defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100

* 1895, George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile

* 1990, Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense Leaague in America and the Kach movement in Israel, is assassinated by a practitioner of that "religion of peace" after a speech at a Manhattan hotel

* 1995, Andre Dallaire attempts to assassinate Jean Chretien; he is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door

* 1996, President of Pakistan Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan

* 1998, the U.N. Security Council unanimously demanded that Iraq resume cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors immediately

* 2003, President Bush signed a bill outlawing "partial-birth abortion"; less than an hour later, a federal judge in Nebraska issued a temporary restraining order against the ban. (In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.)

* 2006, Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982