The 7t o November is the 311t day o the year (312t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 54 days bidin.
Events
- 1332 - Lucerne jyns the Swiss Confederation.
- 1492 - The Ensisheim meteorite hits the Yird in Alsace.
- 1659 - Fraunce an Spain sign the Treaty o the Pyrenees, agreein on their mairch in Northren Catalonie.
- 1801 - Alessandro Volta demonstrates the first battery.
- 1848 - Zachary Taylor is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
- 1861 - Denver, Colorado, is incorporatit as a ceety.
- 1876 - Rutherford B. Hayes is controversially electit Preses o the Unitit States ower Samuel J. Tilden, wha had mair votes.
- 1893 - Colorado allows weemen the richt tae vote.
- 1916 - Woodrow Wilson is re-electit Preses o the Unitit States.
- 1917 - October Revolution in Roushie: The Bolsheviks tak ower the Roushie govrenment (25 October in Julian calendar).
- 1929 - The Museum o Modren Airt opens in New York Ceety.
- 1940 - The oreeginal brig in Tacoma, Washington collapses in a storm 4 month efter completion.
- 1944 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt is electit tae a 4t term as Preses o the Unitit States.
- 1963 - Miracle o Lengede: 11 miners are rescued frae a collapsed mine in Wast Germany efter 14 days.
- 1972 - Richard Nixon is re-electit Preses o the Unitit States.
- 1987 - Zine El Abidine Ben Ali becomes Preses o Tunisie.
- 1989 - Douglas Wilder o Virginie becomes the first electit African-American state govrenor in the Unitit States.
- 1990 - Mary Robinson is electit Preses o Ireland.
- 1996 - A Boeing 727 crashes in Lagos, Nigerie, killin 143 fowk.
- 2000 - Hillary Clinton is electit tae the Unitit States Senate for New York.
- 2000 - George W. Bush is electit Preses o the Unitit States in a disputit election against Al Gore, wha had won mair votes. The result hinges on a close result in Florida.
- 2007 - The Jokela Schuil shuitin in Tuusula, Finland, kills 9 fowk.
- 2008 - The Petion-Ville schuil collapse in Haiti kills 94 fowk.
- 2018 - 12 fowk are kilt in a shuitin at a kintra muisic bar in Thousand Oaks naur Los Angeles, Californie.
Births
- 630 - Constans II, Byzantine Emperor (d. 668)
- 1728 - James Cook, Inglis splorer (d. 1779)
- 1799 - James Syme, Scots surgeon (d. 1870)
- 1867 - Marie Curie, Pols chemist an pheesicist (d. 1934)
- 1876 - Alex Smith, Scots fitbawer (d. 1954)
- 1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrick pheesicist (d. 1968)
- 1879 - Leon Trotsky, Ukrainian-Roushie revolutionary (d. 1940)
- 1888 - C. V. Raman, Indie pheesicist (d. 1970)
- 1903 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrick zoologist (d. 1989)
- 1913 - Albert Camus, French writer (d. 1960)
- 1918 - Billy Graham, American televangelist (d. 2018)
- 1926 - Joan Sutherland, Australie operatic soprano (d. 2010)
- 1929 - Eric Kandel, Austrick-American neuroscientist
- 1943 - Joni Mitchell, Canadian muisicker
- 1944 - Luigi Riva, Italian fitbawer
- 1952 - David Petraeus, American general an CIA director
- 1957 - King Kong Bundy, American profeesional wrestler (d. 2019)
- 1967 - David Guetta, French DJ
- 1967 - Sharleen Spiteri, Scots sangster
- 1976 - Mark Philippoussis, Australie tennis player
- 1978 - Rio Ferdinand, Inglis fitbawer
- 1978 - Barry Robson, Scots fitbawer
- 1988 - Tinie Tempah, Inglis muisicker
- 1990 - David de Gea, Spaingie fitbawer
- 1996 - Lorde, New Zealand sangster
Daiths
- 1913 - Alfred Russel Wallace, Breetish naituralist an splorer (b. 1823)
- 1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, American activist an First Lady o the Unitit States (b. 1884)
- 1963 - David Carnegie, 11t Yerl o Northesk, Scots peer (b. 1901)
- 1967 - John Nance Garner, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1868)
- 1974 - Eric Linklater, Scots writer (b. 1899)
- 1980 - Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
- 1992 - Alexander Dubcek, Slovakie politeecian (b. 1921)
- 2011 - Joe Frazier, American boxer (b. 1944)
- 2016 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian sangster an poet (b. 1934)
Halidays
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