November 7

November 7 is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 54 days remaining.

Major Events:

• 1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published
• 1916 - Jeannette Rankin becomes the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives
• 1917 - October Revolution: Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government of Russia
• 1917 - United Kingdom captures Gaza from the Ottoman Empire
• 1929 - Museum of Modern Art opens to the public
• 1940 - Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses
• 1956 - During the Suez Crisis, the UN General Assembly adopts a resolution calling upon Britain, France and Israel to withdraw their troops from Egypt immediately
• 1973 - US Congress overrode President Richard Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act[?], which limits a chief executive's power to wage war without congressional approval
• 1996 - Mars Global Surveyor launched
• 2001 - The Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month break
• 2002 - Iran bans advertising of US products.

Births:

• 1867 - Marie Curie, chemist, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1903 and in chemistry 1911 (+ 1934)
• 1875 - Mikhail Kalinin[?], Soviet military (+ 1946)
• 1878 - Lise Meitner, physicist
• 1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (+ 1940)
• 1897 - Herman J. Mankiewicz[?], writer, director, producer (+ 1953)
• 1903 - Konrad Lorenz, zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973 (+ 1989)
• 1903 - Dean Jagger[?], actor (+ 1991)
• 1913 - Albert Camus, writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1957 (+ 1960)
• 1914 - Archie Campbell[?], comedian (+ 1987)
• 1918 - Billy Graham, evangelist
• 1922 - Al Hirt, musician (+ 1999)
• 1926 - Dame Joan Sutherland[?], opera singer
• 1937 - Mary Travers, singer (Peter, Paul, and Mary[?])
• 1942 - Johnny Rivers[?], singer, composer
• 1943 - Joni Mitchell, musician
• 1964 - Dana Plato, actress (+ 1999)

Deaths:

• 1893 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer
• 1913 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist
• 1959 - Victor McLaglen, actor
• 1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, human rights activist, First Lady
• 1967 - John Nance Garner, US Representative and Vice President
• 1974 - Eric Linklater[?], author
• 1980 - Steve McQueen, actor
• 1983 - Germaine Tailleferre, French composer
• 1992 - Alexander Dubcek, Czech politician

Holidays and Observances:

Interesting but Unimportant Events

• 2002 - An Iranian, believing a sorcerer had made him invisible, attempts to rob a Tehran bank

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See Also:

November 6 - November 8 - October 7 - December 7 -- listing of all days

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