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this week in history
Guy Fawkes’ seized in failed “Gunpowder Plot,” Bolsheviks revolt, FDR wins third term
The Associated Press
NOV. 6
1860: Former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Party was elected president of the United States.
1861: An unopposed Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederate States of America after serving much of the year as its provisional president.
1888: Republican presidential candidate Benjamin Harrison won the electoral vote over incumbent Democrat Grover Cleveland despite Cleveland gaining 90,000 more total votes.
1947: “Meet the Press,” the longest-running television show in America, made its debut on NBC.
NOV. 7
1916: Jeannette Rankin of Montana won election to the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the rst woman elected to either chamber of Congress.
1917: Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led
by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
1940: Washington state’s original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, nicknamed “Galloping Gertie,” collapsed into Puget Sound during a windstorm just four months after opening to tra c.
1944: President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in o ce.
1991: Basketball star Magic Johnson announced that he had tested positive for HIV and was retiring.
NOV. 8
1889: Montana was admitted to the Union as the 41st state.
1923: Adolf Hitler launched his rst attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich that came to be known as the “Beer Hall Putsch.”
1942: The Allies launched Operation Torch in World War II as U.S. and British forces landed in French North Africa.
1960: John F. Kennedy won the U.S. presidential election over Vice President Richard M. Nixon.
NOV. 9
1906: Theodore Roosevelt
made the rst trip abroad of any sitting U.S. president to observe construction of the Panama Canal.
1935: United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization.
1938: Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as thousands of Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in a pogrom that became known as “Kristallnacht.”
1989: Communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West for the rst time in decades — a landmark event often referred to as the fall of the Berlin Wall.
NOV. 10
1775: The U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress.
1898: A mob of white supremacists killed dozens of African Americans in Wilmington and overthrew the local government in the violent “Wilmington Coup.”
1954: The U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the ag on Iwo Jima, was dedicated by Presi-
dent Dwight D. Eisenhower in Arlington, Virginia.
NOV. 11
1620: Forty-one Pilgrims aboard the May ower signed the May ower Compact, creating a local government calling for a “civil body politick.”
1918: Fighting in World War I ended as the Allies and Germany signed an armistice aboard a railroad car in the Forest of Compiègne in northern France.
1921: The remains of an unidenti ed American service member were interred in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
NOV. 12
1927: Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party.
1948: Former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and several other wartime leaders were sentenced to death by a war-crimes tribunal.
1954: Ellis Island o cially closed as an immigration station and detention center after processing more than 12 million immigrants since 1892.
2 Louvre heist suspects had prior theft conviction together
Authorities are exploring all leads to recover the jewels
By Sylvie Corbet
The Associated Press
PARIS — The Paris prosecutor said Sunday that two of the suspects in the Louvre jewels heist had previously been convicted in a theft case together 10 years ago, as three alleged members of the team of four are now in custody.
Laure Beccuau said the DNA of a 37-year-old man who was charged Saturday was found inside the basket lift that was used to reach the museum’s window. He was handed preliminary charges of theft by an organized gang and criminal conspiracy.
His criminal record contained 11 previous convictions, 10 of them for theft, Beccuau said.
The criminal record of a 39-year-old suspect who was handed similar preliminary charges last Wednesday mentions 15 convictions, including two for theft, Beccuau said.
“What’s interesting about these records, when we compare them, is that … we see that they were both involved in the same theft case, for which they were convicted in Paris in 2015,” Beccuau said.
Another man aged 34 suspected of being part of the “commando” team, as French
“There are four perpetrators, at least one of whom remains at large, plus possibly the one or those who ordered the crime and the jewelry.”
Laurent Nuñez, interior minister
media have dubbed the thieves, was also charged last week.
A 38-year-old woman who was handed preliminary charges of “complicity” on Saturday is the longtime partner of the 37-year-old suspect, Beccuau said, noting some “closeness” between all suspects.
All four are being held in custody.
Beccuau declined to answer a question about whether investigators are getting closer to nding the jewels.
“We are examining all the possibilities on the parallel market for selling this jewelry, which I hope will not happen anytime soon. … It could be used for money laundering, it could be used for trade, all leads are being explored,” she said.
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said he remains “optimistic” about the investigation, in an interview with Le Parisien newspaper Saturday.
“There are four perpetrators, at least one of whom remains at large, plus possibly the one or those who ordered the crime and the jewelry,” Nuñez said.
solutions
“I have great con dence in the work of the police, so I’m optimistic. But my optimism doesn’t extend to thinking that the loot will be recovered quickly,” he added.
EMMA DA SILVA / AP PHOTO
Soldiers patrol in the courtyard of the Louvre museum Oct. 30 in Paris.
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famous birthdays this week
Maria Shriver is 70, Susan Tedeschi turns 55, Sinbad is 69, Leonardo DiCaprio turns 51
The Associated Press
NOV. 6
Actor Sally Field is 79. Jazz musician Arturo Sandoval is 76. Author Michael Cunningham is 73. Journalist-author Maria Shriver is 70. Author Colson Whitehead is 56. Actor Ethan Hawke is 55. Model-actor Rebecca Romijn is 53.
NOV. 7
Baseball Hall of Famer Jim Kaat is 87. Former Singer Johnny Rivers is 83. Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is 82. Retired Army general and former CIA Director David Petraeus is 73.
NOV. 8
Racing Hall of Fame jockey Angel Cordero Jr. is 83. Singer Bonnie Raitt is 76. TV personality Mary Hart is 75. Actor Alfre Woodard is 73. Singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones is 71. Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro is 71. Filmmaker Richard Curtis is 69. Chef and TV personality Gordon Ramsay is 59. Actor Parker Posey is 57.
NOV. 9
Film director Bille August is 77. Actor-bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno is 74. Gospel singer Donnie McClurkin is 66. TV writer-director-producer Ryan Murphy is 60. Rapper Scarface (Geto Boys) is 55. Blues singer Susan Tedeschi is 55.
NOV. 10
Lyricist Tim Rice is 81. Country singer Donna Fargo is 80. Film director Roland Emmerich is 70. Actor-comedian Sinbad is 69. Actor Mackenzie Phillips is 66. Actor Hugh Bonneville is 62. Actor-comedian Tommy Davidson is 62. Actor-comedian Tracy Morgan is 57. Rapper-producer Warren G is 55. Actor Walton Goggins is 54.
NOV. 11
Music producer Mutt Lange
NOV. 12
Actor-playwright Wallace Shawn is 82. Rock musician Booker T. Jones is 81. Sportscaster Al Michaels is 81. Singer-songwriter Neil Young is 80. Author Tracy Kidder is 80. Actor Megan Mullally is 67. Actor Ryan Gosling is 45. Actor Anne Hathaway is 43.
is 77. Actor Stanley Tucci is 65. Actor Demi Moore is 63. Actor Calista Flockhart is 61. TV personality Carson Kressley is 56. Actor David DeLuise is 54. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is 51. Musician Jon Batiste is 39.
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Actor Sally Field, pictured during the 27th Television Academy Hall of Fame ceremony in 2025, turns 79 on Thursday.
MARCO UGARTE / AP PHOTO
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, pictured posing for photos during a red-carpet event for the lm “One Battle After Another” in Mexico City in 2025, turns 51 on Tuesday.
‘The
Fantastic Four: First Steps,’ Tracy Morgan, Kim Kardashian, ‘Downton Abbey’
Willie Nelson interprets the songs and voice of Merle Haggard
The Associated Press
THE EARNEST superhero team-up tale “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” and Tracy Morgan returning to TV with a new comedy called “Crutch” are some of the new television, lms, music and games headed to a device near you.
Also among the streaming o erings worth your time this week: The upstairs-downstairs drama “Downton Abbey” bids farewell in a nal movie, Kim Kardashian plays a divorce attorney in Hulu’s “All’s Fair,” and Willie Nelson continues to demonstrate his proli c output with the release of yet another new album this year.
MOVIES TO STREAM
Guillermo del Toro realizes his long-held dream of a sumptuous Mary Shelley adaptation in “Frankenstein” (Friday on Net ix). Del Toro’s lm, starring Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as his monster, uses all the trappings of handmade movie craft to give Shelley’s classic an epic sweep. In her review, AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr wrote: “Everything about ‘Frankenstein’ is larger than life, from the runtime to the emotions on display.”
Matt Shakman’s endearingly earnest superhero team-up tale “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” (now streaming on Disney+) helps alleviate a checkered-at-best history of bigscreen adaptations of the classic Stan Lee-Jack Kirby comic. Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon MossBachrach and Joseph Quinn play Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, the Thing and the Human Torch, respectively. In 1964, they work to defend Earth from its imminent destruction by Galactus. In my review, I praised “First Steps” as “a spi y ’60s-era romp, bathed in retrofuturism and bygone American optimism.”
“Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale” (Friday on Peacock) bids goodbye to the Crawleys 15 years after Julian Fellowes rst debuted his upstairs-downstairs drama. The cast of the third and nal lm, directed by Simon Curtis, includes Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery and Paul Giamatti. In her review, AP’s Jocelyn Noveck wrote that the lm gives “loyal Downton fans what they want: a satisfying bit of closure and the
“Everything about ‘Frankenstein’ is larger than life, from the runtime to the emotions on display.”
Lindsey Bahr, AP Film Writer
sense that the future, though a bit scary, may look kindly on Downton Abbey.” Peacock is also streaming the two previous movies and all six seasons of “Downton Abbey.”
“The Materialists” (Friday on HBO Max), Celine Song’s follow-up to her Oscar-nominated 2023 breakthrough “Past Lives,” stars Dakota Johnson, Pascal and Chris Evans in a romantic triangle. The New York-set lm adds a dose of economic reality to a romantic comedy plot in what was, for A24, a modest summer hit. In her review, AP’s Jocelyn Noveck called it “a smart rom-com that tries to be honest about life and still leaves us smiling.”
MUSIC TO STREAM
The legendary Willie Nelson continues to demonstrate his proli c output with the release of yet another new album this year. “Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle,” out Friday, is exactly what it sounds like: Nelson o ering new interpretations of 11 classic songs written by Merle Haggard. And we mean
classics: Check out Nelson’s latest take on “Okie From Muskogee,” “Mama Tried,” “I Think I’ll Just Stay Here And Drink” and more. Where’s the future of the global music industry? All over, surely, but it would be more than just a little wise to look to Brazil. Not too dissimilar to how Anitta brought her country’s funk genre to an international mainstream through diverse collaborations and genre meddling, so too is Ludmilla. On Thursday, she will release a new album, “Fragmentos,” fresh o the heels of her sultry, bilingual collaboration with Grammy winner Victoria Monét, “Cam Girl.” It’s a combination of R&B, funk and then some.
SERIES TO STREAM
Morgan returns to TV with a new comedy called “Crutch.” He plays a widowed empty-nester whose world is turned around when his adult children move home with his grandkids in tow. The Paramount+ series is available now.
Kardashian says she will soon learn whether she passed the bar exam to become a lawyer, but she plays a sought-after divorce attorney in “All’s Fair,” her new TV series for Hulu. Kardashian stars alongside Glenn Close, Sarah Paulson, Niecy Nash-Betts, Naomi Watts and Teyana Taylor in the show about an all-female law rm. Ryan Murphy created the show with Kardashian in mind after she acted in “American Horror Story: Delicate.” It is streaming now on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.
The old saying about truth being stranger than ction applies to Net ix’s new four-episode limited-series “Death by Lightning.” It’s a historical dramatization (with some comedy thrown in) about how James Gar eld became the 20th president of the United States. He was shot four months later by a man named Charles Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen), who was desperate for Gar eld’s attention. Two months after that, Gar eld died from complications of his injuries. It’s a wild story that also features Betty Gilpin, Nick O erman, Bradley Whitford and Shea Whigham. The series premieres Thursday. HBO o ers up a new docuseries about the life of retired baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez. “Alex Vs. A-Rod” features intimate interviews with peo -
ple who are related to and know Rodriguez, as well as the man himself. The three-part series premieres Thursday. The next installment of “Wicked,” called “Wicked: For Good,” ies into theaters Nov. 21, and NBC has created a musical special to pump up the release. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande lead “Wicked: One Wonderful Night,” a concert event that premieres Thursday on NBC and streams on Peacock Friday. Additional lm cast members like Michelle Yeoh, Bowen Yang, Marissa Bode and Ethan Slater appear as well.
VIDEO GAMES TO PLAY
It’s going to be a while until the next Legend of Zelda game, but if you’re craving some time with the princess, check out Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment. In this spino , a prequel to 2023’s Tears of the Kingdom, Zelda travels back in time to join forces with the Six Sages in a war against the invader Ganondorf. You can also drag another human into battle with split-screen or the GameShare feature on Nintendo’s new console. Like the previous collaborations between Nintendo and Koei Tecmo, it’s more hack-and-slash action than exploration and discovery. It arrives Thursday on Switch 2.
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Pedro Pascal stars as Mr. Fantastic in “The Fantastic Four: First Steps.”
Laura Carmichael, from left, Harry Hadden-Paton, Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville and Michelle Dockery are part of the ensemble cast in “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.”
