Reuters historical calendar - November 5

London, Nov 4 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on November 5 since 1900: 1912 - Democrat Woodrow Wilson won the US presidency, becoming the only man to defeat two former presidents -- William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt -- in the same election.

1914 - France declared war on Turkey in World War One.

1955 - French painter Maurice Utrillo died; he is known for his paintings of the streets of Paris, particularly Montmartre.

1960 - Mack Sennett, US film producer and director, died.

He is known as the creator of the Keystone Kops.

1965 - Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith declared a state of emergency in preparation for his unilateral declaration of independence from Britain in what is now Zimbabwe.

1978 - Iranian Prime Minister Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigned following riots and demonstrations against the Shah.

1982 - French film director and actor Jacques Tati, best known for films like ''Mr Hulot's Holiday'', died.

1989 - Vladimir Horowitz, one of the 20th century's greatest pianists, died. He was 85 and last performed publicly in 1987.

1990 - Meir Kahane, American-born rabbi, who advocated expelling all Arabs from Israel, was shot dead in New York.

1996 - Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was sacked by the country's president, who accused her government of corruption, nepotism and misrule.

1996 - Democrat Bill Clinton was re-elected US president, defeating Republican Robert Dole.

1997 - Isaiah Berlin, a leading English academic intellectual of the postwar era, died aged 88.

1999 - China announced the first criminal charges against the leaders of the Falun Gong spiritual sect.

2001 - Roy Boulting, British film producer who made some of Britain's best known films from the 1940s to the 1970s, including ''Brighton Rock'', and ''I'm All Right, Jack'', died. He was 87.

2002 - Republicans re-captured control of the Senate in the US midterm election as well as retaining control of the US House of Representatives.

2003 - The European Union's executive Commission gave final approval for ten new states to join the EU in May 2004. The Commission said Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Cyprus and Malta, had made sufficient progress in implementing EU law.

2003 - Bobby Hatfield, the tenor half of the Righteous Brothers singing duo who made ''You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling'' a worldwide hit, died. He was 63.

2004 - Peru began a retrial of Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman, whose conviction was annulled by Peru's top court in 2003 after the repeal of draconian anti-terror laws.

2005 - British novelist John Fowles, author of ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' and ''The Magus'', died. He was 79.

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