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Good News on this day in History, November 5
The Gunpowder Plot failed when Guy Fawkes was seized from the cellar before he could blow up the English Parliament (1605)
- Suffragist Susan B. Anthony voted in defiance of the law - was fined $100 (1872)
- Parker Brothers released Monopoly board game (1935)
- Ella Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to win gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband (1974)
- NPR news show Morning Edition premiered (1979)
- Apartheid fighter Govan Mbeki released from South Afric...
Heart disease rates have been falling for decades due to healthier lifestyles, but now death rates after severe heart attacks have been cut in half over the last six years, thanks to new treatments and anti-clotting drugs. Death rates of patients in 14 countries fell from 8.4% to 4.5% between 1999 and 2006, a study showed. In prayer, what you need is to forget how worried and confused you are and remember how wonderful you are! The root word is sanskrit, Pal-al, which means, judging oneself to be wonderously made. - Eric Butterworth, The Universe is Calling: Opening to the Divine Through Prayer
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