November 7th Events |
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| November 7th, 2007 (November 07 2007) | Event | Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people. | |
| November 7th, 2004 (November 07 2004) | Event | 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. | |
| November 7th, 2002 (November 07 2002) | Event | Iran bans advertising of United States products. | |
| November 7th, 2001 (November 07 2001) | Event | The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month hiatus. | |
| November 7th, 2000 (November 07 2000) | Event | 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. | Hillary Clinton Quotes |
| November 7th, 2000 (November 07 2000) | Event | Controversial US presidential election that was later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case. | |
| November 7th, 2000 (November 07 2000) | Event | The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country s largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas. | |
| November 7th, 1996 (November 07 1996) | Event | NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor. | |
| November 7th, 1996 (November 07 1996) | Event | A Nigerian Boeing 727 crashes into a lagoon 40 miles southeast of Lagos, killing 143. | |
| November 7th, 1991 (November 07 1991) | Event | Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA. | |
| November 7th, 1990 (November 07 1990) | Event | Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland. | |
| November 7th, 1989 (November 07 1989) | Event | Douglas Wilder wins the governor s seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States. | |
| November 7th, 1989 (November 07 1989) | Event | David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City. | |
| November 7th, 1989 (November 07 1989) | Event | East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests. | |
| November 7th, 1987 (November 07 1987) | Event | In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. | |
| November 7th, 1983 (November 07 1983) | Event | 1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the U.S. Capitol Building. | |
| November 7th, 1973 (November 07 1973) | Event | 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. | |
| November 7th, 1967 (November 07 1967) | Event | Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city. | |
| November 7th, 1967 (November 07 1967) | Event | US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. | Lyndon Johnson Quotes |
| November 7th, 1963 (November 07 1963) | Event | Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days. | |
| November 7th, 1957 (November 07 1957) | Event | Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters. | |
| November 7th, 1956 (November 07 1956) | Event | 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. | |
| November 7th, 1944 (November 07 1944) | Event | A passenger train derails in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico from excessive speed when descending a hill. 16 people were killed and 50 were injured. | |
| November 7th, 1941 (November 07 1941) | Event | World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia was sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimea s hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking. | |
| November 7th, 1941 (November 07 1941) | Event | Holocaust: In Nemyriv, Ukraine, German fascists murder 2580 Jews. | |
| November 7th, 1940 (November 07 1940) | Event | In Tacoma, Washington, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge ("Galloping Gertie") collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge s completion. | |
| November 7th, 1933 (November 07 1933) | Event | Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City. | |
| November 7th, 1931 (November 07 1931) | Event | The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. | |
| November 7th, 1929 (November 07 1929) | Event | In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public. | |
| November 7th, 1921 (November 07 1921) | Event | The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence. | |
| November 7th, 1918 (November 07 1918) | Event | The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year. | |
| November 7th, 1918 (November 07 1918) | Event | Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria. | |
| November 7th, 1917 (November 07 1917) | Event | Russian Revolution: In Petrograd, Russia, Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Russia was still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show the date as October 25). | Vladimir Lenin Quotes |
| November 7th, 1917 (November 07 1917) | Event | World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire. | |
| November 7th, 1916 (November 07 1916) | Event | Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress. | |
| November 7th, 1914 (November 07 1914) | Event | The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published. | |
| November 7th, 1914 (November 07 1914) | Event | The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces. | |
| November 7th, 1912 (November 07 1912) | Event | The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven s Fidelio. | |
| November 7th, 1910 (November 07 1910) | Event | The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse. | |
| November 7th, 1907 (November 07 1907) | Event | Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University. | |
| November 7th, 1907 (November 07 1907) | Event | Jesus Garcia saves the entire town of Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers away before it can explode. | |
| November 7th, 1900 (November 07 1900) | Event | Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses. | |
| November 7th, 1893 (November 07 1893) | Event | Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote. | |
| November 7th, 1885 (November 07 1885) | Event | In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the Canadian Pacific Railway railway extending across Canada. | |
| November 7th, 1874 (November 07 1874) | Event | 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. | |
| November 7th, 1861 (November 07 1861) | Event | 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. | Ulysses S. Grant Quotes |
| November 7th, 1837 (November 07 1837) | Event | 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. | |
| November 7th, 1811 (November 07 1811) | Event | Tecumseh s War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States. | Tecumseh Quotes |
| November 7th, 1786 (November 07 1786) | Event | The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society. | |
| November 7th, 1665 (November 07 1665) | Event | The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published. | |
| November 7th, 1492 (November 07 1492) | Event | 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. | |
