11/5/1955
On November 5, 1955, Dr. Emmett Brown slips while hanging a clock in his bathroom, strikes his head, and has a sudden vision of the flux capacitor — the device that will make time travel possible. By coincidence, this is the exact date Marty McFly arrives when he accidentally travels back from 1985, making November 5th the pivot point on which the entire trilogy turns.
11/5/1997 · Alan Moore, David Lloyd
On November 5th in a near-future totalitarian Britain, Evey Hammond is rescued from the secret police by a masked vigilante who calls himself V — and watches with him as V detonates the Old Bailey courthouse, fireworks lighting the London sky. It is the opening act of V's precisely planned campaign: he has exactly one year from this Guy Fawkes Night to bring down the regime, and he intends to keep his promise.
11/5/1998 · Alan Moore, David Lloyd
On the second November 5th of the story — a year after V first revealed himself — he fulfills his promise: broadcasting on every television in England, destroying the Jordan Tower (the state's propaganda arm) and the Post Office Tower (its surveillance network), and leaving the regime leaderless. What follows is not V's victory but the citizens of London, in their thousands and their Guy Fawkes masks, marching on Parliament.
11/5/1940 · Philip Roth
On November 5, 1940, aviation hero Charles Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in Philip Roth's alternate history, winning the presidency on a platform of keeping America out of Europe's war and signing a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany. For the Roth family of Newark — like millions of American Jews — election night is the moment their country becomes an unfamiliar and frightening place.