What day of the week was November 5, 1872?

The day of the week November 5th, 1872 fell on was a Tuesday.

There were 50 days until Christmas.

Thomas Sully the English- American painter died on this day in 1872.

Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law the suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.