November 7

November 7 is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 54 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

1332 – Lucerne joins the Swiss Confederation.
1492 – The Ensisheim Meteorite strikes Earth in a wheatfield in the Alsace.
1619 – Elizabeth of Bohemia is crowned.
1659 – France and Spain sign the Treaty of the Pyrenees, agreeing on their border in northern Catalonia.
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.
1786 – The Stoughton Musical Society, the oldest musical organization in the United States, is founded.
1801 – Alessandro Volta demonstrates the first battery.
1848 – Zachary Taylor is elected President of the United States.
1861 – Denver, Colorado is incorporated as a city.
1872 – The ship Mary Celeste sails from New York City.
1876 – Rutherford B. Hayes is controversially elected President of the United States over Samuel J. Tilden, as Tilden had won the popular vote.
1885 – Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
1893 – Colorado becomes the first US State to allow women to vote.

1901 – 1950

1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in Bolivia.
1911 – Marie Curie wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, becoming the first person to win two Nobel Prizes.
1913 – First Day of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913.
1916 – Woodrow Wilson is elected to a second term as President of the United States.
1916 – Jeannette Rankin becomes the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
1917 – The October Revolution begins in Russia.
1918 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in Bavaria.
1918 – The 1918 Spanish flu outbreak reaches Western Samoa.
1929 – The Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City.
1931 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed.
1933 – Fiorello La Guardia is elected the 99th Mayor of New York City.
1936 – Spanish Civil War: Francisco Franco's troops begin their assault on Madrid.
1940 – The original bridge in Tacoma, Washington collapses in a wind storm, only 4 months after its completion.
1941 – World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes.
1944 – A passenger train derails in Puerto Rico, killing 16 people.
1944 – Soviet spy Richard Sorge is executed by his Japanese captors.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Thomas E. Dewey, as he is elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States, though he only serves this term for a short time, as he dies on April 12, 1945, when he is succeeded by Harry S. Truman.

1951 – 2000

1956 – Suez Crisis: The UN General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to withdraw from Egypt.
1963 – Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, 11 miners are rescued from a collapsed mine, after surviving for 14 days.
1967 – Carl B. Stokes is elected Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American Mayor of a major US city.
1972 – Richard Nixon is elected to a second term as President of the United States, defeating George McGovern, who only manages to win in Massachusetts and Washington, DC.
1975 – In Bangladesh, a joint force of civilians and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Colonel Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the house–arrested army chief and future President Major General Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
1982 – In Burkina Faso, Saye Zerbo is removed from power by Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo.
1987 – Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali becomes the 2nd President of Tunisia.
1989 – Chandra Shekhar becomes Prime Minister of India.
1989 – In Virginia, Douglas Wilder is elected the first African–American Governor in the United States.
1989 – David Dinkins is elected the first African–American Mayor of New York City.
1989 – Willi Stoph and the entire East German cabinet resigns.
1990 – Mary Robinson is elected the first female President of Ireland.
1991 – Magic Johnson announces he has AIDS, and declares his retirement from professional basketball.
1996 – A Boeing 727 crashes in Lagos, Nigeria, killing all 143 people on board.
2000 – Hillary Clinton becomes the first First Lady of the United States to be elected to the United States Senate.
2000 – The Presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore in the United States ends in controversy. Gore wins the popular votes, but after narrowly winning Florida, Bush wins the electoral college vote. The result is not known for a month, when Bush is declared as the next President of the United States.

From 2001

2001 – SABENA, the national airline of Belgium, goes bankrupt.
2002 – Iran bans advertising of US products.
2006 – US Mid–Term Elections: The Democrats gain a majority in both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives halfway through Republican George W. Bush's second term in office as President.
2007 – Jokela school shooting: A shooting in Tuusula, Finland, kills 9 people.
2008 – The Pétion–Ville school collapse in Haiti kills 94 people.
2011 – Dr. Conrad Murray is found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson.
2012 – A magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes off Guatemala.
2018 – Donald Trump fires United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
2018 – Twelve people are killed in the Thousand Oaks shooting in a country music bar near Los Angeles, California.

Births

Up to 1900

630 – Constans II, Byzantine Emperor (d. 668)
994 – Ibn Hazm, Arab philosopher (d. 1069)
1598 – Francisco Zurbaran, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
1612 – Pierre Mignard, French painter (d. 1695)
1687 – William Stukeley, English antiquarian, physician and clergyman (d. 1765)
1706 – Carlo Cecere, Italian composer (d. 1761)
1720 – Erekle II, Georgian King (d. 1798)
1728 – James Cook, English explorer (d. 1879) (born on Oct. 27 in the Julian calendar)
1790 – Luigi Legnani, Italian singer, guitarist and composer (d. 1877)
1805 – Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870)
1832 – Andrew Dickson White, American educator and diplomat (d. 1918)
1833 – Rafael Pombo, Colombian poet (d. 1912)
1838 – Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
1846 – Ignaz Bruell, Austrian pianist (d. 1907)
1849 – Ernesto Hinze Ribeiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1907)
1855 – Edwin Hall, American physicist (d. 1938)
1858 – Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian political activist (d. 1932)
1867 – Marie Curie, Polish–French chemist and physicist (d. 1934)
1872 – Leonora Speyer, American poet and novelist (d. 1956)
1876 – Alex Smith, Scottish footballer (d. 1954)
1876 – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (d. 1958)
1878 – Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)
1879 – Leon Trotsky, Ukrainian revolutionary and Marxist (d. 1940)
1879 – King Baggot, American actor (d. 1958)
1885 – Frank Knight, American economist (d. 1972)
1886 – Aaron Nimzovich, Latvian chess player (d. 1935)
1888 – Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (d. 1934)
1888 – C. V. Raman, Indian physicist (d. 1970)
1890 – Jan Matulka, American painter (d. 1972)
1891 – Miriam Cooper, American actress (d. 1976)
1893 – Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985)
1897 – Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter, director and producer (d. 1953)
1897 – Armstrong Sperry, American author (d. 1976)
1899 – Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian–Israeli poet and columnist (d. 1954)

1901 – 1950

1903 – Dean Jagger, American actor (d. 1991)
1903 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist (d. 1989)
1903 – Grace Stafford, American actress (d. 1992)
1903 – Ary Barroso, Brazilian pianist and composer (d. 1964)
1904 – Gino Rosetti, Italian footballer (d. 1992)
1905 – Aurélio de Lira Tavares, President of Brazil (d. 1998)
1908 – Marijac, French author and illustrator (d. 1994)
1913 – Albert Camus, French writer (d. 1960)
1913 – Alekos Sakellarios, Greek writer and movie director (d. 1991)
1914 – Archie Campbell, American comedian and writer (d. 1987)
1915 – Philip Morrison, American physicist (d. 2005)
1917 – Helen Suzman, South African political activist (d. 2009)
1918 – Billy Graham, American religious leader (d. 2018)
1918 – Maria Teresa de Noronha, Portuguese Fado singer (d. 1993)
1921 – Jack Fleck, American golfer (d. 2014)
1922 – Ghulam Azam, Bangladeshi politician (d. 2014)
1925 – János Horváth, Hungarian economist and politician (d. 2019)
1926 – Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano (d. 2010)
1927 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman, 3rd president of Nintendo (d. 2013)
1929 – Eric Kandel, Austrian–American neuroscientist
1930 – Antonio Marchesano, Uruguayan lawyer and politician (d. 2019)
1936 – Dame Gwyneth Jones, Welsh soprano
1938 – Ian Balding, American–English horse trainer
1938 – Barry Newman, American actor
1940 – Antonio Skármeta, Chilean writer
1941 – Angelo Scola, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Milan
1942 – Jean Shrimpton, British supermodel and actress
1942 – Johnny Rivers, American musician
1943 – Silvia Cartwright, former Governor–General of New Zealand
1943 – Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician
1943 – Michael Spence, American economist
1943 – Michael Byrne, British actor
1943 – Boris Gromov, Russian general
1944 – E. Hunter Harrison, American railroad executive (d. 2017)
1944 – Luigi Riva, Italian footballer
1944 – Bob Windle, Australian swimmer
1947 – Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese baseball player
1949 – Queen Aishwarya of Nepal (d. 2001)
1950 – Lindsay Duncan, British actress

1951 – 1975

1951 – Lawrence O'Donnell, American journalist, actor and producer
1952 – Valeriy Zuyev, Ukrainian footballer and coach (d. 2016)
1952 – David Petraeus, American general and CIA director
1952 – Modibo Sidibe, former Prime Minister of Mali
1953 – Lucinda Green, British horse rider and journalist
1955 – Norbert Eder, German footballer (d. 2019)
1955 – Detlef Ultsch, German judoka
1957 – Christopher Knight, American actor
1957 – John Benitez, American DJ, songwriter and producer
1957 – King Kong Bundy, American wrestler and actor (d. 2019)
1959 – Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
1959 – Alexandre Guimaraes, Costa Rican football manager
1959 – Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
1960 – Tommy Thayer, American guitarist (Kiss)
1961 – Sergei Aleinikov, Belarussian footballer
1962 – Bettina Hoy, German equestrian showjumper
1963 – John Barnes, English footballer
1964 – Dana Plato, American actress (d. 1999)
1964 – Bonnie St. John, American Paralympic ski racer
1965 – Sigrun Wodars, German athlete
1967 – David Guetta, French DJ
1967 – Sharleen Spiteri, Scottish singer
1969 – Michel Picard, Canadian ice hockey player
1970 – Morgan Spurlock, American movie director and producer
1970 – Neil Hannon, Irish singer-songwriter
1971 – Robin Finck, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1973 – Yunjin Kim, South Korean actress
1973 – Martín Palermo, Argentine footballer
1974 – Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Jamaican track athlete
1975 – Venkat Prabhu, Indian movie director

From 1976

1976 – Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
1976 – Rob Caggiano, American musician (Anthrax)
1977 – Andres Oper, Estonian footballer
1978 – Tomoya Nagase, Japanese actor and singer
1978 – Mohamed Aboutrika, Egyptian footballer
1978 – Rio Ferdinand, English footballer
1978 – Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch footballer
1978 – Barry Robson, Scottish footballer
1979 – Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican footballer
1979 – Mike Commodore, American ice hockey player
1979 – Barney Harwood, English television presenter and actor
1980 – Luciana Salazar, Argentine model, actress and singer
1980 – Karthik, Indian singer and composer
1981 – Anushka Shetty, Indian actress
1982 – Pascal Leclaire, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Amelia Vega, Dominican model
1984 – Jonathan Bornstein, American footballer
1985 – Tom Croft, English rugby player
1987 – Rachele Brooke Smith, American actress and dancer
1988 – Tinie Tempah, English rapper and musician
1988 – Yuki Muto, Japanese footballer
1988 – Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukrainian tennis player
1989 – Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Russian singer and actress (Pussy Riot)
1990 – Matt Corby, Australian singer
1990 – David de Gea, Spanish footballer
1994 – Haruna Iikubo, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1996 – Lorde, New Zealand singer-songwriter

Deaths

Up to 1950

641 – Umar ibn al-Khattab, 2nd Caliph od Islam
739 – Willibrord, Anglo–Saxon missionary and saint
1225 – Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne
1550 – Jon Arason, last Roman Catholic bishop in Iceland (b. 1484)
1574 – Solomon Luria, Polish rabbi (b. 1510)
1581 – Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar
1599 – Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon and educator (b. 1546)
1633 – Cornelis Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572)
1837 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)
1872 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
1906 – Heinrich Seidel, German engineer, poet and writer (b. 1842)
1913 – Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and explorer (b. 1823)
1919 – Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (b. 1863)
1922 – Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
1930 – Okido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1878)
1933 – Harold Weber, American golfer (b. 1882)
1944 – Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)

1951 – 2010

1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, activist and wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt (b. 1884)
1967 – John Nance Garner, Vice President of the United States (b. 1868)
1968 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
1978 – Jivraj Narayan Mehta, 6th Chief Minister of Gujarat (b. 1887)
1978 – Gene Tunney, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1897)
1980 – Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
1981 – Will Durant, American philosopher and writer (b. 1885)
1990 – Lawrence Durrell, British writer (b. 1912)
1991 – Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920)
1992 – Alexander Dubcek, Czechoslovakian politician (b. 1921)
1992 – Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927)
1993 – Adelaide Hall, American–English singer, actress and dancer (b. 1901)
1995 – Ann Dunham, American anthropologist and mother of Barack Obama (b. 1942)
2000 – Ingrid of Sweden, mother of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark (b. 1910)
2002 – Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (Der Spiegel magazine) (b. 1923)
2004 – Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
2005 – Harry Thompson, English author, screenwriter and producer (b. 1960)
2007 – Earl Dodge, American politician (b. 1932)

From 2011

2011 – Joe Frazier, American heavyweight boxer and world champion (b. 1944)
2012 – Clive Dunn, British actor, comedian and writer (b. 1920)
2012 – Carmen Basilio, American boxer (b. 1927)
2013 – Manfred Rommel, German politician, former Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, and son of Erwin Rommel (b. 1928)
2013 – Amparo Rivelles, Spanish actress (b. 1925)
2014 – Lincoln D. Faurer, American air force officer (b. 1928)
2014 – Connie Dion, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
2014 – Juan Taverna, Argentine footballer (b. 1948)
2015 – Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic–American actor (b. 1947)
2016 – Janet Reno, United States Attorney General (b. 1938)
2016 – Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (b. 1934)
2017 – Roy Halladay, American baseball player (b. 1977)
2017 – Brad Harris, American actor and stuntman (b. 1933)
2017 – Carl Sargeant, Welsh politician (b. 1968)
2017 – Wendell Eugene, American jazz trombonist (b. 1923)
2017 – Hans-Michael Rehberg, German actor (b. 1938)
2018 – Francis Lai, French film score composer (b. 1932)
2018 – Alan Watson, British legal scholar (b. 1933)
2019 – Remo Bodei, Italian philosopher (b. 1938)
2019 – Leo Klejn, Russian archaeologist and philologist (b. 1927)
2019 – Heinz Höher, German footballer and manager (b. 1938)
2019 – Maria Perego, Italian television writer and animator (b. 1923)
2019 – Margarita Salas, Spanish biochemist and academic (b. 1938)
2019 – Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Indian novelist and poet (b. 1938)

Observances

Anniversary of the Treaty of the Pyrenees (Northern Catalonia)
National Revolution and Solidarity Day (Bangladesh)