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What happened in history on this day: November 7?
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- 680 - Third Council of Constantinople (sixth ecumenical council) opens.
- 994 - Birth of Muhammad ibn Hazm historian/jurist/writer of Islamic Spain.
- 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite (about 280 pounds) with a known date of impact, strikes Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace (France).
- 1573 - Solomon Luria (Maharshal) talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies.
- 1598 - Birth of Francisco de Zurbaran Spain, Baroque painter (baptized).
- 1631 - Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler.
- 1670 - In China, a meteorite breaks the roof beam of a house.
- 1707 - Birth of Johann Julius Hecker in Werden, Germany; developed secondary schools ("Realschule"), opening the first in 1747 in Berlin.
- 1775 - Lord Dunmore promises freedom to male slaves who join British army.
- 1805 - William Clark (Lewis and Clark exposition) sights the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
- 1832 - Birth of Andrew Dickson White; educator/first President of Cornell.
- 1837 - Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy is murdered by a mob at Alton, Illinois.
- 1848 - Zachary Taylor (Whig party) of Louisiana defeats Democrat Lewis Cass of Michigan in the first US presidential election held in every state on the same day.
- 1867 - Birth of Marie Sklodowska Curie; discovered radium (Nobel Prize 1903, 1911).
- 1872 - Mary Celeste ship sails from New York to Genoa, Italy; found abandoned four weeks later.
- 1874 - First cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by T Nast.
- 1875 - Verney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa.
- 1876 - Birth of Culbert Olson in Fillmore, Utah, USA; American politician (Governor-Democrat-California).
- 1876 - Meharry Medical College established at Central Tennessee College.
- 1876 - President Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel J Tilden each claim presidential victory.
- 1879 - Birth of Leon Trotsky; Russian revolutionary leader/writer (Diary in Exile).
- 1882 - Near Denver, Colorado, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurs.
- 1885 - Canadian Pacific Railway is completed at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
- 1888 - Birth of Chandrasekhara Raman in India; physicist (Nobel Prize 1930).
- 1890 - Birth of Phil Spitalny in Ukraine; bandleader (Hour of Charm radio show (1935-46).
- 1896 - Birth of Herbert R O'Connor in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; (Senator-Maryland)/TV narrator (Crime Syndicated).
- 1900 - Birth of Efrem Kurtz in Saint Petersburg, Russia; conductor (Houston Symphony 1948-54).
- 1902 - Birth of Jesus Maria Sanromá in Carolina, Puerto Rico; pianist (Boston Symphony).
- 1903 - Birth of Dean Jagger in Lima, Ohio, USA; actor (Twelve O'Clock High (Oscar award), Elmer Gantry, Albert Vane - Mr. Novak, Hunter, The Waltons, St. Elsewhere).
- 1903 - Birth of Konrad Lorenz; zoologist/ethologist/writer (Nobel Prize 1973).
- 1907 - Dynamite explodes on a locomotive killing engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico.
- 1910 - The first air freight shipment (from Dayton to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
- 1913 - Birth of Albert Camus in Algeria; novelist/director (The Just - Nobel Prize 1957).
- 1916 - Birth of Joe Bushkin in New York City, New York, USA; jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes).
- 1916 - Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) re-elected President of the USA.
- 1917 - Birth of Helen Suzman in Germiston, Gauteng; South African Member of Parliament and anti-apartheid campaigner.
- 1917 - British capture Gaza, Palestine from the Turks.
- 1917 - October Revolution (October 26 Old Style) in Russia, Vladimir Lenin seizes power.
- 1918 - Birth of Billy Graham in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; evangelist (Crusades).
- 1918 - Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rocket.
- 1918 - United Press reports (erroneously) Great War armistice has been signed.
- 1922 - Birth of Al Hirt in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; jazz trumpeter ("Java", "Sugar Lips").
- 1926 - Birth of Joan Sutherland in Sydney, Australia; operatic soprano (Met Opera).
- 1930 - Birth of Rudy Boschwitz; American politician (Senator-Republican-Minnesota).
- 1931 - The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed by Mao Zedong.
- 1931 - Birth of Gloria LeRoy; actress (Family Matters, All in the Family, Days of Our Lives, Hill Street Blues).
- 1933 - Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports.
- 1936 - Birth of Barry Newman in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Amy, Deadline, Petrocelli).
- 1936 - Birth of Gwyneth Jones in Pontnewyndd, Wales; soprano (Die Walkyre).
- 1938 - Birth of Dee Clark in Arkansas, USA; singer ("Hambone", "Nobody But You").
- 1938 - Birth of Barry Newman; actor (Petrocelli, Nightingales, The OC).
- 1938 - Birth of James Katt; pitcher/sportscaster (New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins).
- 1938 - Herschel Grynszpan, son of Polish Jew deported from Germany, shoots German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris, France.
- 1940 - Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Washington State, USA.
- 1942 - First US President to broadcast in a foreign language-Franklin Roosevelt in French.
- 1942 - Birth of Johnny Rivers; singer ("Secret Agent Man").
- 1943 - Birth of Joni Mitchell AKA Roberta Joan Anderson at Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada; singer/songwriter ("Both Sides Now", "The Circle Game", "Woodstock").
- 1943 - Detroit Lions 0, New York Giants 0; last scoreless tie in NFL.
- 1944 - Birth of Jim Watkins in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Jerry - Magician).
- 1944 - Birth of Joe Niekro; baseball knuckler (New York Yankees).
- 1944 - US President Franklin Roosevelt wins fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (Republican).
- 1946 - A coin-operated television receiver is displayed in New York City. For the cost of a quarter, one could see various test patterns and a model of "Felix the Cat".
- 1948 - CBS airs the anthology TV show Studio One for the first time, airing an adaptation of the mystery play "The Storm".
- 1948 - Birth of James Houghton; actor (Knots Landing, The Colbys, Code R).
- 1949 - Birth of Judy Tenuda; comedienne (Spotlight Cafe).
- 1950 - Louis E. Eliasberg purchases an 1873-CC Seated Liberty No Arrows dime for US$4000, completing the first complete set of all known regular-issue United States coins, by date and mint mark.
- 1951 - Birth of Nick Guilder; singer ("Hot Child in the City").
- 1951 - Constitution of Jordan passes.
- 1954 - CBS debuts the public affairs TV program Face the Nation.
- 1955 - Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas.
- 1957 - Birth of Kathy McMillan; long jumper (1976 Olympics silver).
- 1957 - Birth of Christopher Knight; actor (The Brady Bunch).
- 1961 - Birth of Mintcho Pachov in Bulgaria; 67.5kg weightlifter (Olympic-bronze-1980).
- 1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady, dies at age 78 in New York City.
- 1962 - Glenn Hall sets NHL record of 503 consecutive games as goalie.
- 1962 - Richard Nixon quits US politics - "You won't have Nixon to kick around".
- 1963 - Birth of Robin Lee; country singer (Black Velvet).
- 1963 - Birth of Todd McKee; actor (Ted - Santa Barbara, The Bold and the Beautiful).
- 1964 - Birth of Dana Plato in Maywood, California, USA; actress (Kimberly - Diff'rent Strokes).
- 1964 - Birth of Liam O'Maonlai; rocker (Hothouse Flowers - "Don't Go").
- 1964 - National League keeps Braves in Milwaukee in 1965, can move to Atlanta in 1966.
- 1965 - The "Pillsbury Dough Boy" debuts in television commercials.
- 1966 - Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US.
- 1967 - US President Lyndon Johnson signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- 1968 - Birth of Greg Tribbett; guitarist (Mudvayne).
- 1970 - Race riots in Daytona Beach, Florida.
- 1972 - Birth of Christopher Daniel Barnes; actor (Ross - Day by Day, As the World Turns, Malcolm and Eddie, Spiderman, Starman).
- 1972 - Birth of Clive B. Barnes in Portland, Maine, USA; actor (Scott Hayden - Starman).
- 1972 - Birth of Jeremy and Jason London; actors (Seventh Heaven, Party of Five).
- 1972 - US President Richard Nixon (Republican) re-elected defeating George McGovern (Democrat).
- 1973 - New Jersey becomes first state to allow girls into US baseball little league.
- 1974 - Birth of Yunjin Kim; actor (Lost).
- 1976 - In Iran, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurs. Three villages are completely destroyed.
- 1976 - NBC TV airs film Gone With the Wind on television for the first time, becoming highest-rated TV show to date, with 65 percent of all viewers watching.
- 1978 - Indira Gandhi is re-elected to the Indian parliament.
- 1978 - Birth of Mark Read, English singer (A1).
- 1978 - Death of Gene Tunney at age 80, American boxer, former heavyweight boxing champ (born 1897).
- 1978 - California voters defeat the Briggs Initiative that would have prohibited gay school teachers.
- 1979 - U.S. Senator Edward Moore Kennedy announces that he will challenge President Jimmy Carter for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
- 1980 - Death of Steve McQueen at age 50 of lung cancer; American actor (Josh Randall - Trackdown, Wanted: Dead or Alive).
- 1982 - The Thames Barrier is first publicly demonstrated.
- 1983 - Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his second New York Giants' record 56-yard field goal.
- 1983 - Birth of Zach Myers; Guitarist (Shinedown).
- 1983 - Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries.
- 1984 - Birth of Amelia Vega in the Dominican Republic; Miss Universe 2003.
- 1985 - Colombian troops end 27-hour siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice.
- 1988 - Major League Baseball All-Stars beat Japan 16-8 (Game 3 of 7).
- 1988 - Sugar Ray Leonard knocks out Donnie LaLonde.
- 1989 - The Communist government of German Democratic Republic resigns, although SED leader Egon Krenz remains head of state.
- 1989 - In California, convicted murderer Richard Ramirez (the "Night Stalker") is sentenced to death.
- 1991 - The last oil well fire in Kuwait is put out.
- 1991 - The first report on carbon nanotubes is published by Sumio Iijima in the journal Nature.
- 1991 - Basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson announces he has tested positive for HIV virus, and retires from Los Angeles Lakers.
- 1994 - WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first Internet radio broadcast.
- 1994 - Apple Computer, Motorola, and IBM announce that they will create a computer platform to run all major operating systems, except the Intel x86-based Microsoft Windows 3.1 and successors. To be included are the Mac OS, OS/2, AIX, Solaris, Windows NT, and Netware.
- 1994 - Death of Milton "Shorty" Rogers [Rajonsky] at age 70; jazz trumpeter, TV music composer (The Partridge Family, Starsky and Hutch, The Rookies, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island).
- 1995 - Death of Slappy White at age 74 from a heart attack; comedian (Sanford and Son, The Flip Wilson Show, The Redd Foxx Show, Ed Sullivan, Tonight Show).
- 1995 - In New York City, USA, Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries sells at auction a Hawaii 1851 2-cent stamp and 5-cent stamp, and pair of USA 1851 3-cent Washington stamps on cover for US$2,090,000.
- 1996 - A devastating Category 4 cyclone strikes Andhra Pradesh, India. The storm surge sweeps fishing villages out to sea, killing over 2,000 people. 95 percent of crops are completely destroyed.
- 1996 - NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
- 1998 - John Glenn returns to Earth aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.
- 2000 - Death of Ingrid of Sweden, Queen consort of Frederick IX of Denmark (born 1910).
- 2000 - United States presidential election: Republican candidate Texas Governor George W. Bush defeats Democratic Vice President Al Gore in the closest election in US history, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida.
- 2000 - In London, a criminal gang raids the Millennium Dome to steal The Millennium Star diamond, but police surveillance catches them in the act.
- 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 - Belgium's SABENA Airlines goes bankrupt.
- 2001 - The super-sonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month break.
- 2002 - Iran bans the advertising of United States products.
- 2002 - Death of Peg Phillips of lung disease at age 84; actress (Northern Exposure, Seventh Heaven).
- 2004 - U.S. forces launch a major assault on the Iraqi town of Fallujah, in an effort to rid the area of insurgents before the Iraqi elections in January.
- 2004 - Death of Howard Keel of colon cancer at age 85; actor/singer (Dallas TV show).
- 2006 - U.S. Midterm elections: Democrats win control of both houses of Congress for the first time since 1994.
- 2006 - In the U.S. congressional elections, Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison becomes the first Muslim elected to the House of Representatives.
- 2006 - The Japanese town of Saroma, Hokkaido is struck by a tornado, killing nine. It is the deadliest tornado in Japan since 1941.
- 2006 - Microsoft releases the Gears of War video game for the Xbox 360 in the USA. Total worldwide sales in the first three weeks: 1 million units.
- 2007 - The Jokela school shooting occurs. Finnish youth Pekka-Eric Auvinen shoots dead eight people and wounds one at the Jokela School Centre.
- 2007 - A 48-hour long state of emergency for Tbilisi is declared by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili due to the intense anti-government protests that have gripped the capital city.
- 2007 - The Canadian dollar reaches its highest level since the 19th century against the American dollar, at US$1.10.
- 2007 - The German government approves a one-year extension of its participation in Operation Enduring Freedom, in patroling shipping off the Horn of Africa, and within Afghanistan.
- 2008 - The three-storey La Promesse College in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, collapses, killing 92, with another 150 injured.
- 2008 - Paramount releases the film Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa to theaters.
- 2010 - The first election in 20 years takes place in Myanmar.
- 2015 - Chinese and Taiwanese presidents, Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou, formally meet for the first time.
- 2017 - Death of Roy Halladay, American baseball player (born 1977).
- 2019 - The International Criminal Court sentences former Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda to 30 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- 2022 - Death of Jeff Cook at age 73 at home in Destin, Florida, USA of Parkinson's disease complications; co-founder of Alabama music group.
- 2022 - Death of Leslie Phillips at age 98; actor (Carry On films, Doctor TV series, Sorting Hat - Harry Potter movie).
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