November 7
November 7 is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 54 days remaining.
Events
1600-1899
- 1665 - The London Gazette,
the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
- 1783 - A man convicted of forgery is the
last to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn site.
- 1837 - In Alton,
Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot to
death by a mob while he was attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
- 1848 - U.S. presidential election, 1848: Zachary Taylor is elected president in the first US presidential election held in every state on the same
day.
- 1861 - American Civil
War: Battle of
Belmont - In Belmont,
Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
- 1874 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party
- 1885 - In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the Canadian Pacific Railway railway extending across Canada.
- 1893 - Colorado women are granted the
right to vote.
1900-1999
- 1912 - The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche
Oper Berlin) opened in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg with a production of Beethoven's
Fidelio.
- 1914 - The first issue of The
New Republic magazine is published.
- 1916 - Jeannette Rankin
of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the United States House of
Representatives.
- 1917 - Russian
Revolution begins: In Russia, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, with the assistance of
Bolshevik military leader and philosopher Leon Trotsky, leads his revolutionaries in a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Provisional Government (Russia was still using the Julian Calendar at the time, so period references show a October 25 date).
- 1917 - World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends - United Kingdom
forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman
Empire.
- 1918 - The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7542 (about twenty percent of the population) by the end of the year.
- 1929 - In New York City, the
Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
- 1932 - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on radio for
the first time.
- 1940 - In Washington, the middle
section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a
windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
- 1944 - U.S. presidential election, 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins reelection over Republican challenger Thomas E.
Dewey to become the only U.S. president to be elected to a fourth term.
- 1956 - Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to withdraw their troops from Egypt
immediately.
- 1957 - Cold War: In the United States, the Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
- 1962 - Richard M. Nixon
loses the California governor's race. In his concession speech, he states that
this is his "last press conference" and that "you won't have Dick Nixon to kick around any more".
- 1963 - The comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World premieres.
- 1963 - Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, 11 miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
- 1965 - The Velvet
Underground make their public debut at a high school dance in Summit, New Jersey.
- 1965 - The Pillsbury Doughboy makes its first public
appearance.
- 1967 - US President Lyndon
B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting.
- 1972 - U.S. presidential election, 1972: Republican incumbent Richard Nixon
defeats Democratic Senator George McGovern.
- 1973 - The United
States Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of
the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential
power to wage war without congressional approval.
- 1983 - A bomb explodes inside the US
Capitol building; there are no deaths or injuries.
- 1987 - In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
- 1988 - Boxing: In Las Vegas, Nevada, boxer Sugar Ray Leonard knocks out Donnie
LaLonde.
- 1989 - Douglas Wilder wins
the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
- 1989 - David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City.
- 1989 - In California, convicted murder Richard Ramirez (the "Night Stalker") is sentenced to death.
- 1991 - Basketball player Magic Johnson announces he tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, and that he was retiring.
- 1996 - NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
- 1996 - A Nigerian Boeing 727 crashes into a lagoon 40 miles southeast of
Lagos, Nigeria killing 143/
2000-2099
Births
1700-1899
- 1750 - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)
- 1832 - Andrew Dickson
White, co-founder and first president of Cornell University
(d. 1918)
- 1867 - Marie Curie, chemist,
physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1903 and in
chemistry 1911 (d. 1934)
- 1875 - Mikhail Kalinin,
Soviet politician (d. 1946)
- 1878 - Lise Meitner,
physicist
- 1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian
revolutionary (d. 1940)
- 1886 - Aron Nimzowitsch,
chess grandmaster and popularizer of hypermodernism
in chess (d. 1935)
- 1888 - Sir C. V. Raman, Indian Physicist. Recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics for his
discovery of the "Raman" effect (d. 1970)
- 1897 - Herman J.
Mankiewicz, writer, director, producer (d. 1953)
1900-1999
- 1903 - Konrad Lorenz,
zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973 (d.
1989)
- 1903 - Dean Jagger, actor (d. 1991)
- 1913 - Albert Camus, writer,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature
1957 (d. 1960)
- 1914 - Archie Campbell, comedian (d. 1987)
- 1918 - Billy Graham,
evangelist
- 1922 - Al Hirt, musician (d. 1999)
- 1926 - Dame Joan
Sutherland, opera singer
- 1937 - Mary Travers, singer
(Peter, Paul and Mary)
- 1942 - Johnny Rivers, singer,
composer
- 1943 - Joni Mitchell,
musician
- 1957 - Christopher
Knight, actor, The Brady Bunch
- 1964 - Dana Plato, actress (d.
1999)
- 1965 - Sigrun Wodars, East
German athlete
- 1969 - Hélène Grimaud,
French pianist
- 1976 - Mark
Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
- 1976 - Rio Ferdinand, Man United Player
- 1979 - Jon Peter Lewis,
singer
Deaths
1800-1899
1900-1999
2000-2099
November 7 demonstration in Yaroslavl, Russia (2004)
Holidays and observances
November 6 - November 8 -
October 7 - December 7 --
listing of all days
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