Events
of the day
National
Cancer Awareness Day (India)
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
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β Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge
that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing
to Constantinople.
680 β The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences
in Constantinople.
1492 β 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 β Elizabeth of Scotland and England
is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
1665 β The London Gazette, the oldest surviving
journal, is first published.
1775 β 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 β The oldest musical organization in
the United States is founded as the Stoughton
Musical Society.
1811 β Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe
is fought near present-day Battle Ground,
Indiana, United States.
1837 β 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 β 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 β 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 β In Craigellachie, British Columbia,
construction ends on the Canadian Pacific
Railway extending across Canada.
1893 β Women in the U.S. state of Colorado
are granted the right to vote.
1900 β Battle of Leliefontein, a battle
during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons
win three Victoria Crosses.
1907 β Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New
York University.
1907 β JesΓΊs GarcΓa 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 β Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
1910 β The first air freight shipment (from
Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken
by the Wright Brothers and department store
owner Max Moorehouse.
1912 β The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche
Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood
of Charlottenburg, with a production of
Beethoven's Fidelio.
1914 β The first issue of The New Republic
magazine is published.
1914 β The German colony of Kiaochow Bay
and its centre at Tsingtao are captured
by Japanese forces.
1916 β Jeannette Rankin is the first woman
elected to the United States Congress.
1917 β 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 β World War I: Third Battle of Gaza
ends: British forces capture Gaza from the
Ottoman Empire.
1918 β The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads
to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20%
of the population) by the end of the year.
1918 β Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach
dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
1919 β 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 β Patriarch Tikhon issues a decree
that leads to the formation of the Russian
Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
1921 β The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF),
National Fascist Party, comes into existence.
1929 β In New York City, the Museum of Modern
Art opens to the public.
1931 β The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed
on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
1933 β Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected
the 99th mayor of New York City.
1940 β In Tacoma, Washington, the original
Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm,
a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
1941 β 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 β A passenger train derails in Aguadilla,
Puerto Rico from excessive speed when descending
a hill. 16 people are killed and 50 are
injured.
1944 β 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 β Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for
a record fourth term as President of the
United States of America.
1956 β 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 β Cold War: The Gaither Report calls
for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
1963 β Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven
miners are rescued from a collapsed mine
after 14 days.
1967 β Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor
of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African
American mayor of a major American city.
1967 β US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs
the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1973 β 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 β 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 β 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 β In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba
is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
1989 β Douglas Wilder wins the governor's
seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected
African American governor in the United
States.
1989 β David Dinkins becomes the first African
American to be elected mayor of New York
City.
1989 β East German Prime Minister Willi
Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is
forced to resign after huge anti-government
protests.
1990 β Mary Robinson becomes the first woman
to be elected President of the Republic
of Ireland.
1991 β Magic Johnson announces that he is
infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
1994 β WXYC, the student radio station of
the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, provides the world's first internet
radio broadcast.
1996 β NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
2000 β 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 β Controversial US presidential election
that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore
Supreme Court Case.
2000 β 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 β SABENA, the national airline of Belgium,
goes bankrupt
2002 β Iran bans advertising of United States
products.
2004 β 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 β 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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