On this day in History - Nov. 7

• 0994 - Ibn Hazm was born (d. 1069). Arab philosopher.
• 1225 - Engelbert II of Berg dies. Archbishop of Cologne
• 1451 - Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy dies (b. 1383)
• 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, struck the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace.
• 1581 - Richard Davies dies. Welsh bishop and scholar
• 1598 - Francisco Zurbarán was born (d. 1664). Spanish painter.
• 1599 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi dies (b. 1546). Italian surgeon.
• 1619 - Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux was born (d. 1692). French writer.
• 1633 - Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel dies (b. 1572). Dutch inventor.
• 1639 - Thomas Arundell dies. 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician
• 1642 - Henry Montagu dies. 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician
• 1650 - John Robinson was born (d. 1723). English diplomat.
• 1659 - Assinatura do Tratado dos Pirinéus, terminando a guerra entre a França e a Espanha que se prolongava oficialmente desde 1648, mas que continuava a Guerra dos Trinta Anos (1618-1648). Com a assinatura desde tratado Portugal deixava de contar com a França como aliada, na Guerra da Restauração.
• 1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
• 1687 - William Stukeley was born (d. 1765). English archaologist.
• 1713 - Elizabeth Barry dies (b. 1658). English actress.
• 1750 - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg was born (d. 1819).German poet.
• 1786 - America's oldest musical organization was founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
• 1811 - Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana.
• 1818 - Emil du Bois-Reymond was born (d. 1896).German physician.
• 1832 - Andrew Dickson White was born (d. 1918). American co-founder and first president of Cornell University.
• 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.
• 1837 - Elijah P. Lovejoy dies (b. 1809). American abolitionist.
• 1838 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was born (d. 1889). French writer.
• 1841 - Fernando Afonso Geraldes Caldeira was born in Águeda (d. 2 Apr 1894). Portuguese politician, dramatist, painter and poet.
• 1848 - U.S. presidential election, 1848: Zachary Taylor is elected president in the first US presidential election held in every state on the same day.
• 1849 - Ernesto Rodolfo Hintze Ribeiro was born in Azores (d. 1907). Portuguese politician.
• 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.
• 1867 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie was born (d. 1934). Polish-born French chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry.
• 1868 - Delfim Moreira was born (d. 1920). President of Brazil.
• 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
• 1875 - Mikhail Kalinin was born (d. 1946). Soviet politician.
• 1876 - Charlie Townsend was born (d. 1958). English cricketer.
• 1876 - António Joaquim Pereira da Silva was born in Araruna (PB) (d. 11 Jan 1944). Brazilian lawyer, journalist and poet ( Senhora da Melancolia - 1928).
• 1878 - Lise Meitner was born (d. 1968). Austrian physicist.
• 1879 - King Baggot was born (d. 1948). American actor.
• 1879 - Leon Trotsky was born (d. 1940). Russian revolutionary.
• 1885 - In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the Canadian Pacific Railway railway extending across Canada.
• 1886 - Aron Nimzowitsch was born (d. 1935). Latvian-born chess player.
• 1888 - Sir C. V. Raman was born (d. 1970). Indian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1893 - Leatrice Joy was born (d. 1985). American actress
• 1893 - Colorado women are granted the right to vote.
• 1897 - Herman J. Mankiewicz was born (d. 1953). American writer, director, and producer.
• 1901 - Cecília Meireles was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 9 Nov 1964). Brazilian poetess.
• 1903 - Dean Jagger was born (d. 1991). American actor
• 1903 - Konrad Lorenz was born (d. 1989). Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973
• 1903 - Ary Barroso was born (d. 1964). Brazilian composer.
• 1904 - Ernesto Navarro Betancourt was born. Cuban sculptor.
• 1905 - Aurélio Lyra Tavares was born (d. 1998). President of Brazil.
• 1905 - William Alwyn was born (d. 1985). English composer.
• 1910 - The first air freight shipment from Dayton, Ohio to Columbus, Ohio undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
• 1910 - Florencio Sánchez dies in Milan (Italy) (b. 17 Jan 1875). Uruguayan dramatist.
• 1912 - The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
• 1913 - Albert Camus was born (d. 1960). French writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1913 - Alfred Russel Wallace dies (b. 1823). British naturalist and biologist.
• 1914 - Archie Campbell was born (d. 1987). American comedian, writer.
• 1914 - The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
• 1915 - Philip Morrison was born (d. 2005). American scientist.
• 1916 - U.S. presidential election, 1916: Democrat Woodrow Wilson is re-elected President of the United States by defeating Republican Charles Evans Hughes. Meanwhile, Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
• 1917 - Russian Revolution: In Petrograd, Russia, Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Russia is still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show a October 25 date).
• 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 - Billy Graham was born. American evangelist.
• 1922 - Al Hirt was born (d. 1999). American trumpeter.
• 1922 - Sam Thompson dies (b. 1860). Baseball player
• 1926 - Joan Sutherland was born. Australian operatic soprano
• 1927 - Hiroshi Yamauchi was born. Japanese computer game executive
• 1929 - Eric Richard Kandel was born. Austrian neuroscientist
• 1929 - In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
• 1932 - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on radio for the first time.
• 1934 - Premiere of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini at Baltimore, Maryland
• 1937 - Mary Travers was born. American singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
• 1940 - In Washington, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
• 1941 - Jewish tragedy in Nemyriv, Ukraine: German fascists murder 2580 Jews. Earlier in September, 1941 2,400 Jews were shot by German Nazis at the brickworks near Nemyriv.
• 1942 - Johnny Rivers was born. American singer and composer
• 1943 - Joni Mitchell was born. Canadian musician
• 1943 - Michael Spence was born. American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 - Boris Gromov was born. Russian general
• 1943 - Dwight Frye dies (b. 1899). American actor.
• 1944 - U.S. presidential election, 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins re-election over challenger Thomas E. Dewey, to become the only U.S. president to be elected to a fourth term.
• 1944 - Joe Niekro was born (d. 2006). Baseball player
• 1944 - Ken Patera was born. American professional wrestler
• 1944 - Luigi Riva was born. Italian football player.
• 1944 - Richard Sorge dies (b. 1895). Soviet spy.
• 1949 - Émerson Leão was born. Brazilian football player and coach
• 1954 - Kamal Haasan was born. Indian actor
• 1955 - Detlef Ultsch was born. German judo artist
• 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: In the United States, the Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
• 1957 - Christopher Knight was born. American actor.
• 1959 - Victor McLaglen dies (b. 1883). British-born actor.
• 1961 - O presidente equatoriano, José María Velasco Ibarra é obrigado a renunciar.
• 1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt dies (b. 1884). First Lady of the United States
• 1962 - Tracie Savage was born. American actress and journalist
• 1962 - Richard M. Nixon loses the California governor's race. In his concession speech, he states that this is his "last press conference" and that "you won't have Dick Nixon to kick around any more".
• 1963 - The comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World premieres.
• 1963 - Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, 11 miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
• 1963 - John Barnes was born. English football player
• 1964 - Dana Plato was born (d. 1999). American actress.
• 1965 - Sigrun Wodars was born. German athlete
• 1965 - The Velvet Underground make their public debut at a high-school dance in Summit, New Jersey.
• 1965 - The Pillsbury Doughboy makes its first public appearance.
• 1966 - Rube Bressler dies (b. 1894). Baseball player.
• 1967 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
• 1967 - Sharleen Spiteri was born.Scottish singer & songwriter (Texas)
• 1967 - John Nance Garner dies (b. 1868). U.S. Congressman and Vice President.
• 1968 - Alexander Gelfond dies (b. 1906). Russian mathematician.
• 1969 - Hélène Grimaud was born. French pianist
• 1972 - Danny Grewcock was born. English rugby player
• 1972 - U.S. presidential election, 1972: Republican incumbent Richard Nixon defeats Democratic Senator George McGovern.
• 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.
• 1973 - Martín Palermo was born. Argentinian football player.
• 1974 - Eric Linklater dies (b. 1899). British author.
• 1975 - Juan Carlos I, Bourbon, subiu ao trono em Espanha, após a morte de Franco.
• 1976 - Mark Philippoussis was born. Australian tennis player
• 1978 - Rio Ferdinand was born. English football player
• 1978 - Gene Tunney dies (b. 1897). Heavyweight boxing champion
• 1979 - Jon Peter Lewis was born. American singer.
• 1980 - Steve McQueen dies (b. 1930). American actor.
• 1980 - Vicente Forte dies (b. 1912). Argentine painter.
• 1981 - Lily Thai was born. Asian porn star
• 1983 - A bomb explodes inside the US Capitol building.
• 1983 - Germaine Tailleferre dies (b. 1892). French composer.
• 1987 - In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
• 1988 - Geraldo Rivera receives injuries sustained in a fight with white supremacists on live television.
• 1988 - Boxing: In Las Vegas, Nevada, boxer Sugar Ray Leonard knocks out Donnie LaLonde.
• 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 mayor of New York City.
• 1989 - In California, convicted murder Richard Ramirez (aka "The Night Stalker") is sentenced to death.
• 1989 - East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
• 1990 - Marisa Siketa was born. Australian actress
• 1991 - Basketball player Magic Johnson announces he has tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, and that he is retiring.
• 1991 - Carter Cornelius dies (b. 1948). American R&B musician (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose)
• 1992 - The Party for Socialist Turkey is founded.
• 1992 - Alexander Dubček dies (b. 1921). Slovakian politician.
• 1992 - Jack Kelly dies (b. 1927). American actor.
• 1993 - Ayrton Senna (McLaren Team) wins Adelaide F1 Grand Prix
• 1994 - Shorty Rogers dies (b. 1924). American jazz musician.
• 1995 - José Saramago é agraciado com o Prémio Camões.
• 1995 - Portugal: António Guterres apresenta, na Assembleia da República, o programa do Governo e anuncia a suspensão das obras da barragem de Foz Côa.
• 1996 - NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
• 1996 - A Nigerian Boeing 727 crashes into a lagoon 40 miles southeast of Lagos, Nigeria, killing 143.
• 1996 - Jaja Wachuku dies (b. 1918). Nigerian Lawyer and First Foreign Affairs Minister.
• 1999 - Primo Nebiolo dies (b. 14 Jul 1923). Italian president of International Amateur Athletic Federation
• 2000 - C Subramaniam dies (b. 1910). Indian politician.
• 2000 - U.S. presidential election, 2000: Republican Texas Governor George W. Bush defeats Democrat Vice President Al Gore, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida.
• 2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office.
• 2000 - C Subramaniam dies (b. 1910). Indian politician.
• 2001 - Bankruptcy of Belgium's SABENA Airlines.
• 2001 - The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month break.
• 2001 - Nida Blanca dies (b. 1936). Filipino actress.
• 2002 - Iran bans advertising of United States products.
• 2002 - Rudolf Augstein dies (b. 1923). German publisher.
• 2004 - Tennis: Marat Safin beats Radek Stepanek and wins Paris Masters Series
• 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.
• 2004 - Howard Keel dies (b. 1919). American actor.
• 2005 - Anthony Sawoniuk dies (b. 1921). Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal.
• R.C. Saints - Saint Willibrord
• Northern Catalonia - National Day, after Treaty of Pyrenees.
• Russia - day of the October Revolution (1917) in the Gregorian Calendar, unofficially commemorated
• Make It Obvious You're Gaian IRL Day