November 7

November 7 is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 54 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 335 – Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.
• 680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.
• 1492 – The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
• 1619 – Elizabeth of Scotland and England is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
• 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
• 1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.
• 1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
• 1811 – Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
• 1837 – In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
• 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.
• 1872 – The ship Mary Celeste sails from New York, eventually to be found deserted
• 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 extending across Canada.
• 1893 – Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
• 1900 – Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
• 1907 – Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
• 1907 – Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers away before it can explode.
• 1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
• 1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is 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.
• 1914 – The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
• 1916 – Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
• 1917 – The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
• 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.
• 1918 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
• 1919 – The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in twenty-three different U.S. cities.
• 1920 – Patriarch Tikhon issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
• 1921 – The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence.
• 1929 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
• 1931 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
• 1933 – Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
• 1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
• 1941 – World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
• 1944 – A passenger train derails in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico from excessive speed when descending a hill. 16 people are killed and 50 are injured.
• 1944 – Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
• 1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.
• 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: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
• 1963 – Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
• 1967 – Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
• 1967 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
• 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.
• 1975 – In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Col. Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brig. Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman. The day is occasionally observed as the National Revolution and Solidarity Day.
• 1983 – 1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No people are harmed, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
• 1987 – In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
• 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 to be elected mayor of New York City.
• 1989 – East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
• 1990 – Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
• 1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
• 1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.
• 1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
• 2000 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.
• 2000 – Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
• 2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
• 2001 – SABENA, the national airline of Belgium, goes bankrupt
• 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.
• 2007 – Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.

Births

• 630 – Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)
• 994 – Ibn Hazm, Arab philosopher (d. 1069)
• 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 antiquarian (d. 1765)
• 1706 – Carlo Cecere, Italian composer of operas, concertos and instrumental duets (d. 1761)
• 1728 – Captain James Cook, British naval officer, explorer, and cartographer (d. 1779)
• 1750 – Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)
• 1805 – Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870)
• 1818 – Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (d. 1896)
• 1832 – Andrew Dickson White, American educator (d. 1918)
• 1838 – Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
• 1846 – Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (d. 1907)
• 1851 – Chris von der Ahe, German born entrepreneur (d. 1913)
• 1858 – Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian political activist (d. 1932)
• 1860 – Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (d. 1936)
• 1861 – Jeff Milton, American lawman (d. 1947)
• 1867 – Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish 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)
• 1890 – Jan Matulka American painter (d. 1972)
• 1893 – Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985)
• 1896 – Esdras Minville, Quebec writer, economist and sociologist (d. 1975)
• 1897 – Herman J. Mankiewicz, American writer, director, and producer (d. 1953)
• 1898 – Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (d. 1963)
• 1899 – Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-born Israeli poet and columnist (d. 1954)
• 1901 – Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1980)
• 1903 – Ary Barroso, Brazilian songwriter (d. 1964)
• 1903 – Dean Jagger, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1903 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1989)
• 1903 – Grace Stafford, American actress (d. 1992)
• 1905 – William Alwyn, English composer (d. 1985)
• 1913 – Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
• 1913 – Alekos Sakellarios, Greek writer and film director (d. 1991)
• 1914 – Archie Campbell, American comedian, writer (d. 1987)
• 1915 – Philip Morrison, American scientist (d. 2005)
• 1917 – Titos Vandis, Greek actor (d. 2003)
• 1918 – Paul Aussaresses, French general
• 1918 – Billy Graham, American evangelist
• 1918 – Maria Teresa de Noronha, Portuguese Fado singer (d. 1993)
• 1919 – Ellen Stewart, American theater director and producer (d. 2011)
• 1921 – Jack Fleck, American professional golfer
• 1922 – Al Hirt, American trumpeter (d. 1999)
• 1923 – Gene Callahan, American film art and production designer (d. 1990)
• 1926 – Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano (d. 2010)
• 1927 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese computer game executive
• 1927 – Ivor Emmanuel, Welsh singer and actor (d. 2007)
• 1928 – Richard G. Scott, LDS Apostle
• 1929 – Eric R. Kandel, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1929 – Jesús de Polanco, Spanish businessman and media tycoon (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Rudy Boschwitz, American politician
• 1931 – G. Edward Griffin, American film producer and author
• 1935 – W. S. Rendra, Indonesian poet and playwright (d. 2009)
• 1936 – Dame Gwyneth Jones, Welsh soprano
• 1936 – Audrey McLaughlin, Canadian politician
• 1938 – Dee Clark, American singer (d. 1990)
• 1938 – Jake Gibbs, American baseball player
• 1938 – Jim Kaat, American baseball player
• 1938 – Barry Newman, American actor
• 1940 – Dakin Matthews, American actor
• 1940 – Antonio Skármeta, Chilean writer
• 1942 – Tom Peters, American writer
• 1942 – Johnny Rivers, American singer and composer
• 1942 – Jean Shrimpton, British supermodel and actress
• 1943 – Michael Byrne, English actor
• 1943 – Stephen Greenblatt, American literary critic
• 1943 – Boris Gromov, Russian general
• 1943 – Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician
• 1943 – Michael Spence, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1944 – Joe Niekro, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1944 – Ken Patera, American professional wrestler
• 1944 – Luigi Riva, Italian footballer
• 1945 – Waljinah, Javanese singer
• 1945 – Earl Boen, American actor
• 1946 – John Aylward, American actor
• 1947 – Bob Anderson, English darts player
• 1947 – Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese professional baseball player
• 1947 – Sondhi Limthongkul, Thai journalist
• 1947 – Holmes Osborne, American actor
• 1948 – Buck Martinez, American baseball player
• 1948 – Alex Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
• 1949 – Steven Stucky, American composer
• 1949 – Stephen Bruton, American guitarist & songwriter
• 1950 – Lindsay Duncan, British actress
• 1951 – Lawrence O'Donnell, American political analyst
• 1951 – John Tamargo, American baseball player
• 1952 – David Petraeus, American military commander
• 1952 – Modibo Sidibé, Malian prime minister
• 1953 – Lucinda Green, British equestrian
• 1954 – Robin Beck, American singer
• 1954 – Kamal Haasan, Indian actor
• 1954 – Guy Gavriel Kay, Canadian writer
• 1954 – Gil Junger, American director
• 1955 – Detlef Ultsch, German judoka
• 1955 – Kitty Margolis, American jazz singer
• 1955 – Shirley Eikhard, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1956 – Jonathan Palmer, British Formula One racer
• 1956 – Judy Tenuta, American comedienne and accordionist
• 1957 – John Benitez, American musician
• 1957 – King Kong Bundy, American professional wrestler
• 1957 – Christopher Knight, American actor
• 1957 – Tony Schiavone, American wrestling announcer
• 1958 – Lori Saldaña, American politician
• 1958 – Rissei Ō, Japanese professional Go player
• 1959 – Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
• 1959 – Alexandre Guimarães, Costa Rican football manager
• 1959 – Keith Lockhart, American orchestral conductor
• 1959 – Srinivas, Indian singer
• 1960 – Tommy Thayer, American guitarist (Kiss)
• 1961 – Orlando Mercado, American baseball player
• 1962 – Tracie Savage, American actress and journalist
• 1963 – John Barnes, English footballer
• 1963 – Sam Graves, American politician
• 1964] – Troy Beyer, American actress
• 1964 – Gill Holland, American producer
• 1964 – Dana Plato, American actress and child actor (d. 1999)
• 1964 – Li Nanxing, Singaporean actor
• 1964 – Liam Ó Maonlaí, founding member of Irish band Hothouse Flowers
• 1965 – Sigrun Wodars, German athlete
• 1966 – Calvin Borel, American horse jockey
• 1967 – Steve Digiorgio, American musician
• 1967 – David Guetta, French DJ
• 1967 – Julie Pinson, American actress
• 1967 – Sharleen Spiteri Scottish singer-songwriter (Texas)
• 1968 – Greg Tribbett, American musician (Mudvayne)
• 1968 – Mark Preston, Australian engineer
• 1968 – Russ Springer, American baseball player
• 1969 – Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
• 1969 – Michelle Clunie, American actress
• 1969 – Michel Picard, Canadian professional ice hockey player
• 1970 – Neil Hannon, Northern Irish musician (The Divine Comedy)
• 1970 – Andy Houston, American NASCAR driver
• 1970 – Marc Rosset, Swiss tennis player
• 1970 – Morgan Spurlock, American director and producer
• 1971 – Jamie Drummond, Scottish/Canadian Sommelier
• 1971 – Robin Finck, American musician
• 1971 – Matthew Ryan, American musician
• 1972 – Christopher Daniel Barnes, American actor
• 1972 – Danny Grewcock, English rugby union player
• 1972 – Mike Goldman, Australian media personality
• 1972 – Jason London and Jeremy London, American actors
• 1972 – Hasim Rahman, American boxer
• 1972 – Marcus Stewart, English football player
• 1973 – Catê, Brazilian footballer (d. 2011)
• 1973 – Yunjin Kim, South Korean actress
• 1973 – Martín Palermo, Argentine footballer
• 1974 – Kris Benson, American baseball player
• 1974 – Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Jamaican track athlete
• 1974 – Christian Gómez, Argentine footballer
• 1974 – Chris Summers, Norwegian drummer (Turbonegro)
• 1975 – Venkat Prabhu, Indian film director
• 1976 – Rob Caggiano, American musician (Anthrax)
• 1976 – Melyssa Ford, Canadian model and actress
• 1976 – Chang Hao, Chinese professional Go player
• 1976 – One Be Lo, American hip-hop artist
• 1976 – Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
• 1977 – María Sánchez Lorenzo, Spanish tennis player
• 1977 – Anthony Thomas, American football player
• 1978 – Rio Ferdinand, English footballer
• 1978 – Elisabeth Bachman, American volleyball player
• 1978 – Mohamed Aboutrika, Egyptian footballer
• 1978 – Tomoya Nagase, Japanese actor and singer (Tokio)
• 1978 – Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch footballer
• 1979 – Mike Commodore, American hockey player
• 1979 – Will Demps, American football player
• 1979 – Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican footballer
• 1979 – Barney Harwood, English television presenter
• 1979 – Jon Peter Lewis, American singer
• 1979 – Joey Ryan, American professional wrestler
• 1979 – Otep Shamaya, American singer-songwriter (Otep)
• 1980 – Sergio Bernardo Almirón, Argentine footballer
• 1980 – Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
• 1980 – James Franklin, New Zealand cricketer
• 1980 – Karthik, Indian singer
• 1980 – Luciana Salazar, Argentine model and actress
• 1981 – Mark Copani, Jordanian/American professional wrestler
• 1981 – Anushka Shetty, Indian actress
• 1982 – Pascal Leclaire, Canadian professional ice hockey player
• 1983 – Forrest Kline, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hellogoodbye)
• 1984 – Jonathan Bornstein, American soccer player
• 1984 – Amelia Vega, Dominican model and 2003 Miss Universe pageant winner
• 1985 – Sebastian Aldén, Swedish motorcycle racer
• 1986 – David Nelson, American football player
• 1986 – Doukissa Nomikou, Greek model
• 1987 – Marek Semjan, Slovakian tennis player
• 1988 – Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukrainian tennis player
• 1988 – Simone Favaro, Italian rugby player
• 1988 – Thomas Schneider, German athlete
• 1990 – Matt Corby, Australian singer
• 1990 – David de Gea, Spanish footballer
• 1990 – Daniel Ayala, Spanish footballer

Deaths

• 644 – Umar ibn al-Khattāb, Second caliph of Islam
• 1225 – Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne
• 1550 – Jon Arason, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Iceland (b. 1484)
• 1574 – Solomon Luria, Maharshal (b. 1510)
• 1581 – Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar
• 1599 – Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
• 1620 – Hetman Stanisław Żólkiewski Polish commander in the Battle of Ţuţora (1620) (b. 1547)
• 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)
• 1872 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
• 1881 – John MacHale, Irish Archbishop (Tuam) and writer (b. 1791)
• 1906 – Heinrich Seidel, German engineer, poet and writer (b. 1842)
• 1913 – Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
• 1919 – Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (b. 1863)
• 1922 – Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1930 – Ōkido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (b. 1878)
• 1943 – Dwight Frye, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1944 – Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)
• 1944 – Hannah Szenes, Jewish woman who parachuted into Yugoslavia during World War II to help save the Jews of Hungary (b. 1921)
• 1952 – Filippos Karvelas Greek gymnast (b. 1877)
• 1959 – Victor McLaglen, British-born actor (b. 1883)
• 1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
• 1965 – Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, 2nd Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and 2nd successor to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (b. 1889)
• 1966 – Rube Bressler, Baseball player (b. 1894)
• 1967 – John Nance Garner, U.S. Congressman and Vice President (b. 1868)
• 1968 – Gordon Coventry, Australian rules footballer (b. 1901)
• 1968 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
• 1974 – Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
• 1978 – Gene Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion (b. 1897)
• 1980 – Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
• 1983 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
• 1986 – Tracy Pew, Australian musician (The Birthday Party) (b. 1957)
• 1991 – Carter Cornelius, American R&B musician (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (b. 1948)
• 1991 – Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920)
• 1992 – Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician (b. 1921)
• 1992 – Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1994 – Shorty Rogers, American jazz musician (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian Lawyer and First Foreign Affairs Minister (b. 1918)
• 1996 – Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist (b. 1939)
• 2000 – Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Queen Ingrid of Denmark (b. 1910)
• 2001 – Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936)
• 2002 – Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2005 – Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Harry Thompson, English-born comedian and novelist (b. 1960)
• 2006 – Bryan Pata, American football defensive tackle (University of Miami) (murdered) (b. 1984)
• 2006 – Johnny Sain, American baseball pitcher (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Earl Dodge, American politician (Prohibition Party) (b. 1932)
• 2007 – George W. George, American theater, Broadway and film producer (b. 1920)
• 2010 – Smaro Stefanidou, Greek actress (b. 1913)
• 2011 – Joe Frazier, Olympic Heavyweight Boxer (b. 1944)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Engelbert II of Berg
  • Herculanus of Perugia
  • Prosdocimus
  • Vicente Liem de la Paz
  • Willibrord
  • November 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Commemoration Day, the anniversary of Ben Ali's succession. (Tunisia)
• National Day, after Treaty of Pyrenees. (Northern Catalonia)
• National Revolution and Solidarity Day (Bangladesh)
• October Revolution Day (the Soviet Union (former, official), modern Russia (unofficial), Belarus, Kyrgyzstan)

External links

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