November
7
National
Cancer Awareness Day
November
7th, the birth anniversary of Madame Curie is observed as the
National Cancer Awareness Day. Number of banners are displayed
for creating awareness among the general masses about cancer
on the day.
Events
November 7
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.
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.
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)
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