| 5-November-1509 |
| Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal was succeeded as the Viceroy of Protuguese India by Affonso de Albuquerque, who is regarded as the real founder at Portuguese power in India. |
| 5-November-1556 |
| Mughals, under the leadership of Akbar, defeated Hindu ruler Hemu in the second battle of Panipat. |
| 5-November-1605 |
| Accession of Jahangir. |
| 5-November-1870 |
| Chittaranjan Das, freedom fighter, famous lawyer and orator, was born at Calcutta. |
| 5-November-1892 |
| John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford. |
| 5-November-1906 |
| Initials of the place of issuance of notes were started to be printed instead of Issuing Circle's name. |
| 5-November-1907 |
| Special commissioner appointed to deal with famine conditions. |
| 5-November-1915 |
| Balasaheb Devras, sar sanghchalak of RSS, was born. |
| 5-November-1920 |
| Indian Red Cross society was founded in India under Bengal Act VIII. St.John Ambulance Association is a wing of this societywhich directed Improvement of Health, Prevention of Diseases and Mitigation of Suffering activities. |
| 5-November-1927 |
| Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, met Gandhiji, S.Shriniwas Iyengar and M.A. Ansari Congress leaders at New Delhi. |
| 5-November-1928 |
| R. V. S. Perishastri, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, was born. |
| 5-November-1929 |
| Narottam Morarjee, great social reformer and the architect of the modern Indian Shipping, died. |
| 5-November-1930 |
| Arjun Singh, leader of Madhya Pradesh, was born. |
| 5-November-1931 |
| M. G. Subramaniam, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1983-84, was born in Karnataka. |
| 5-November-1945 |
| Case was filed against the Azad Hind Army Soldiers at Red Fort in Delhi. |
| 5-November-1950 |
| Faiyaj Khan, famous singer of Indian classical music, died. |
| 5-November-1951 |
| Western Railways and Central Railways were formed in Bombay; seperate Time Tables were setup. |
| 5-November-1956 |
| Nehru breaks silence condemning Soviets for repression in Hungary. |
| 5-November-1956 |
| University Grants Commission Act sets up UGC. |
| 5-November-1961 |
| Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in New York. This was the first ocassion when an Indian Prime Minister went to United States. |
| 5-November-1976 |
| Lok Sabha votes to extend its own life by another year. |
| 5-November-1977 |
| Indira Gandhi arrested and released unconditionally. The External Affairs Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee addresses the United Nations General Assembly in Hindi. |
| 5-November-1990 |
| Janata Dal splits. The breakaway group claims support of 58 M.P.'s to elect Mr. Chandrashekhar as leader. V.P. Singh's government loses confidence motion in the Lok Sabha. |
| 5-November-1994 |
| Russi Modi appointed Chairman of Air India and Indian Airlines. |
| 5-November-1995 |
| Common Guidance test flight of Trishul successful. |
| 5-November-1995 |
| Narsimha Rao, PM, reaches Argentina for G-15 summit at Buenos Aires. |
| 5-November-1996 |
| Narashima Rao, former PM, refused bail in St. Kitts forgery case. |
| 5-November-1996 |
| Madhavrao Scindia rejoins Congress. |
| 5-November-1996 |
| United Front suffers a setback with one of its constituents, the Madhya Pradesh Vikas party, deciding to walk out and merge with Congress (I). |
| 5-November-1997 |
| Railway ministry doubles compensation amounts from Rs. 2 lakh to Rs.4 lakh to victims of railway accidents and other untoward incidents. |
| 5-November-1998 |
| India and Pakistan agree to continue their talks on the Tulbul navigator project on the Jhelum in Kashmir, despite differences over various provisions of the Indus Water Treaty of 1960. |
| 5-November-1998 |
| Baba Nagarjun "Vaidyanath Mishra" died. He wrote in Hindi, Maithali and Sanskrit. Some of his noted works are "Patra-Heen- Nagna Gachh", "Dukhmochan", "Yugdhara" and "Sahath" "Pret Ka Bayan". |
| 5-November-1999 |
| India's Aarthie Ramaswamy won the girl's under-18 crown in the World Youth Chess Festival in Oropesa, Spain. Koneru Humpy bagged the silver in girls' under-12. |
| 5-November-1999 |
| Malcom Marshall, legendary West Indian fast bowler, died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after battling colon cancer for over six months. |
| 5-November-1999 |
| The CBI arrests the Bihar Road Construction Minister Illiyas Hussain and conducts raids in the Bitumen scam case. |
| 5-November-2000 |
| The Interpol issues a "look-out'' notice for the five persons and two of their accomplices, who hijacked an Indian Airlines plane in December 1999. |