November 7

November 7 is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 54 days remaining.

Events

• 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 gallows.
• 1786 - America's oldest musical organization was founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
• 1811 - Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana.
• 1837 - In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while he 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.
• 1910 - The first air freight shipment from Dayton, Ohio to Columbus, Ohio undertaken by the Wright Brothers and Department Store owner Max Moorehouse.
• 1912 - The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens 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 - U.S. presidential election, 1916: Democrat Woodrow Wilson is re-elected President of the United States by defeating Republican Charles Evans Hughes. Meanwhile, Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
• 1917 - Russian Revolution: In Petrograd, Russia, Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Russia is still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show a October 25 date).
• 1917 - World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends - British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
• 1918 - The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% 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.
• 1934 - Premiere of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini at Baltimore, Maryland
• 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 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 immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
• 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 U.S. 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.
• 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 (aka "The Night Stalker") is sentenced to death.
• 1991 - Basketball player Magic Johnson announces he has tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, and that he is retiring.
• 1992 - The Party for Socialist Turkey is founded.
• 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 - U.S. presidential election, 2000: |Republican Texas Governor George W. Bush defeats Democrat Vice President Al Gore, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida.
• 2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office.
• 2001 - Bankruptcy of Belgium's SABENA Airlines.
• 2001 - The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month break.
• 2002 - Iran bans advertising of United States products.
• 2004 - War in Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.

Births

• 1598 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
• 1619 - Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)
• 1650 - John Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723)
• 1687 - William Stukeley, English archaologist (d. 1765)
• 1750 - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)
• 1832 - Andrew Dickson White, American president of Cornell University (d. 1918)
• 1838 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
• 1867 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish-born French chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry (d. 1934)
• 1875 - Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (d. 1946)
• 1876 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (d. 1958)
• 1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)
• 1879 - King Baggot, American actor (d. 1948)
• 1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (d. 1940)
• 1886 - Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player (d. 1935)
• 1888 - Sir C. V. Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
• 1897 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American writer, director, and producer (d. 1953)
• 1903 - Dean Jagger, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1903 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1989)
• 1905 - William Alwyn, English composer (d. 1985)
• 1913 - Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
• 1914 - Archie Campbell, American comedian, writer (d. 1987)
• 1915 - Philip Morrison, American scientist (d. 2005)
• 1918 - Billy Graham, American evangelist
• 1922 - Al Hirt, American trumpeter (d. 1999)
• 1926 - Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano
• 1927 - Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese computer game executive
• 1937 - Mary Travers, American singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
• 1942 - Johnny Rivers, American singer and composer
• 1943 - Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician
• 1954 - Kamal Haasan, Indian actor
• 1955 - Detlef Ultsch, German judo artist
• 1957 - Christopher Knight, American actor
• 1963 - John Barnes, English footballer
• 1964 - Dana Plato, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1965 - Sigrun Wodars, German athlete
• 1967 - Sharleen Spiteri Scottish singer & songwriter (Texas)
• 1969 - Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
• 1972 - Danny Grewcock, English rugby player
• 1976 - Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
• 1978 - Rio Ferdinand, British footballer
• 1979 - Jon Peter Lewis, American singer
• 1990 - Marisa Siketa, Australian actress

Deaths

• 1581 - Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar
• 1599 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
• 1633 - Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572)
• 1639 - Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician
• 1642 - Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician
• 1713 - Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
• 1837 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)
• 1913 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
• 1922 - Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1943 - Dwight Frye, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1959 - Victor McLaglen, British-born actor (b. 1883)
• 1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
• 1967 - John Nance Garner, U.S. Congressman and Vice President (b. 1868)
• 1974 - Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
• 1980 - Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
• 1983 - Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
• 1992 - Alexander Dubček, Slovakian politician (b. 1921)
• 2000 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
• 2002 - Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances

• The Day of Accord and Reconciliation in Russia (formerly The Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution)
• Northern Catalonia national day, after Treaty of Pyrenees.

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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