7 November

Events

Pre-1600

* 335 – Athanasius is banished to Trier, on the charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.
* 680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.
* 921 – Treaty of Bonn: The Frankish kings Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler sign a peace treaty or 'pact of friendship' () to recognize their borders along the Rhine.
* 1426 – uprising: rebels emerge victorious against the Ming army in the Battle of taking place in , in now Hanoi.
*1492 – 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.
*1504 – Christopher Columbus returns from his fourth and last voyage.

1601–1900

*1619 – Elizabeth Stuart is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
* 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 by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
*1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
*1811 – Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
*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.
*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.
* 1861 – The first Melbourne Cup horse race is held in Melbourne, Australia.
*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.
* 1881 – Mapuche uprising of 1881: Mapuche rebels destroy the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial after defenders fled to the hills.
*1885 – The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
*1893 – Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
*1900 – Second Boer War: The Battle of takes place, during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
* 1900 – The People's Party is founded in Cuba.

1901–present

*1907 – saves the entire town of by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometres (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.
* 1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Morehouse.
*1912 – The (now ) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's ''Fidelio''.
*1913 – The first day of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, a massive blizzard that ultimately killed 250 and caused over $5 million (about $118,098,000 in 2013 dollars) damage. Winds reach hurricane force on this date.
* 1914 – The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
* 1916 – Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
* 1916 – Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President of the United States.
* 1916 – Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
*1917 – The October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October, occurs, according to the Gregorian calendar; on this date, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
* 1917 – World War I: The Third Battle of Gaza ends, with British forces capturing 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 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
*1919 – The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 U.S. cities.
*1920 – Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
*1929 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
*1931 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
*1933 – Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
*1936 – Spanish Civil War: The Madrid Defense Council is formed to coordinate the Defense of Madrid against nationalist forces.
*1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
*1941 – 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 – 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 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States.
*1949 – The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), the world's oldest offshore oil platform.
*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.
* 1956 – Hungarian Revolution: János Kádár returns to Budapest in a Soviet armored convoy, officially taking office as the next Hungarian leader. By this point, most armed resistance has been defeated.
*1957 – Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
*1967 – Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
* 1967 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
*1972 – United States presidential election: U.S. President Richard Nixon is re-elected in the largest landslide victory at the time.
*1973 – The United States Congress overrides President Richard Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
*1975 – In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Colonel Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman.
*1983 – United States Senate bombing: A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
* 1983 – Cold War: The command post exercise Able Archer 83 begins, eventually leading to the Soviet Union to place air units in East Germany and Poland on alert, for fear that NATO was preparing for war
*1987 – In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
* 1987 – The Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system in Singapore opens for passenger service.
*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 to be elected Mayor of New York City.
* 1989 – East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
*1990 – Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
*1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he is HIV-positive and retires from the NBA.
*1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, launches the world's first internet radio broadcast.
*1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
* 1996 – ADC Airlines Flight 086 crashes on approach to Murtala Muhammed International Airport, in Lagos, Nigeria, killing all 144 people on board.
*2000 – The controversial US presidential election is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case, electing George W. Bush as the 43rd President of the United States.
* 2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
*2004 – Iraq War: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day state of emergency as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
*2007 – The Jokela school shooting in Jokela, Tuusula, Finland, takes place, resulting in the death of nine people.
*2012 – An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people.
*2017 – Shamshad TV is attacked by armed gunmen and suicide bombers, with a security guard killed and 20 people wounded; ISIS claims responsibility for the attack.
*2020 – Joe Biden is elected the 46th president of the United States.

Births

Pre-1600

* 630 – Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)
* 994 – Ibn Hazm, Arabian philosopher and scholar (d. 1069)
* 1186 – Ögedei Khan, Mongol ruler, 2nd Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1241)
* 1316 – Simeon of Russia (d. 1353)
* 1456 – Margaret of Bavaria, Electress Palatine, Princess of Bavaria-Landshut by birth (d. 1501)
*1525 – Georg Cracow, German lawyer and politician (d. 1575)
*1598 – Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)

1601–1900

*1619 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French author and poet (d. 1692)
*1650 – John Robinson, English bishop and diplomat (d. 1723)
* 1683 – Anton thor Helle, German-Estonian clergyman, author, and translator (d. 1748)
* 1687 – William Stukeley, English archaeologist and physician (d. 1765)
*1706 – Carlo Cecere, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1761)
* 1728 – James Cook, English captain, navigator, and cartographer (d. 1779)
*1750 – Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet and lawyer (d. 1819)
*1787 – Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director (d. 1854)
*1789 – Alfred Kelley, American legislator, canal builder, and railroad magnate (d. 1859)
* 1800 – Platt Rogers Spencer, American calligrapher and educator (d. 1864)
* 1805 – Thomas Brassey, English engineer and businessman (d. 1870)
* 1818 – Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician and physiologist (d. 1896)
*1821 – Andrea Debono, Maltese trader and explorer (d. 1871)
*1830 – Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (d. 1907)
*1832 – Andrew Dickson White, American historian, academic, and diplomat, co-founded Cornell University (d. 1918)
* 1838 – Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French author and playwright (d. 1889)
* 1843 – William Plankinton, American businessman, industrialist and banker (d. 1905)
*1846 – Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1907)
* 1851 – Chris von der Ahe, German-American businessman (d. 1913)
* 1858 – Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian academic and activist (d. 1932)
*1860 – Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general and engineer (d. 1936)
* 1860 – Paul Peel, Canadian painter and academic (d. 1892)
*1861 – Jeff Milton, American police officer (d. 1947)
* 1867 – Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
*1872 – Lucille La Verne, American actress (d. 1945)
* 1872 – Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist (d. 1956)
*1876 – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer (d. 1958)
*1878 – Lise Meitner, Austrian-Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1968)
* 1879 – King Baggot, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1948)
* 1879 – Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (d. 1940)
*1886 – Aron Nimzowitsch, Russian-Danish chess player and theoretician (d. 1935)
* 1888 – C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
*1890 – Jan Matulka, Czech-American painter and illustrator (d. 1972)
* 1891 – Genrikh Yagoda, director of the NKVD (d. 1938)
*1893 – Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985)
* 1893 – Margaret Leech, American historian and author (d. 1974)
*1896 – Esdras Minville, Canadian economist and sociologist (d. 1975)
* 1897 – Herman J. Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1953)
* 1897 – Armstrong Sperry, American author and illustrator (d. 1976)
*1898 – Margaret Morris, American actress (d. 1968)
* 1898 – Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (d. 1963)
* 1899 – Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-Israeli journalist and poet (d. 1954)
*1900 – Nellie Campobello, Mexican writer who chronicled the Mexican Revolution (d. 1986)

1901–present

*1901 – Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1980)
* 1903 – Ary Barroso, Brazilian pianist and composer (d. 1964)
* 1903 – Dean Jagger, American actor (d. 1991)
* 1903 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
*1905 – William Alwyn, English composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1985)
*1906 – Eugene Carson Blake, American minister and educator (d. 1985)
* 1908 – Marijac, French author and illustrator (d. 1994)
*1909 – Ruby Hurley, American civil rights activist (d. 1980)
* 1909 – Norman Krasna, American director, producer, screenwriter, and playwright (d. 1984)
*1912 – Victor Beaumont, German-English actor (d. 1977)
*1913 – Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
* 1913 – Alekos Sakellarios, Greek director and screenwriter (d. 1991)
* 1913 – Mikhail Solomentsev, Soviet politician, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (d. 2008)
*1914 – Archie Campbell, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1987)
* 1914 – R. A. Lafferty, American author (d. 2002)
*1915 – Philip Morrison, American astrophysicist and academic (d. 2005)
* 1915 – M. Athalie Range, American activist and politician (d. 2006)
*1917 – Titos Vandis, Greek actor (d. 2003)
*1918 – Paul Aussaresses, French general (d. 2013)
* 1918 – Billy Graham, American minister and author (d. 2018)
* 1918 – Maria Teresa de Noronha, Portuguese singer (d. 1993)
*1919 – Ellen Stewart, American director and producer (d. 2011)
*1920 – Max Kampelman, American lawyer and diplomat (d. 2013)
* 1920 – Elaine Morgan, Welsh writer, aquatic ape hypothesis (d. 2013)
*1921 – Lisa Ben, American singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2015)
* 1921 – Jack Fleck, American golfer (d. 2014)
* 1921 – Susanne Hirzel, member of the White Rose (d. 2012)
*1922 – Ghulam Azam, Bangladeshi politician (d. 2014)
* 1922 – Al Hirt, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1999)
* 1923 – Gene Callahan, American art director and production designer (d. 1990)
*1926 – Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano (d. 2010)
* 1927 – Herbert Flam, American tennis player (d. 1980)
* 1927 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (d. 2013)
*1928 – Richard G. Scott, American engineer and religious leader (d. 2015)
*1929 – Jesús de Polanco, Spanish publisher and businessman (d. 2007)
* 1929 – Eric Kandel, Austrian-American neuroscientist and psychiatrist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1929 – Lila Kaye, English actress (d. 2012)
*1930 – Rudy Boschwitz, German-American politician
*1931 – G. Edward Griffin, American director, producer, and author
*1935 – W. S. Rendra, Indonesian poet and playwright (d. 2009)
*1936 – Gwyneth Jones, Welsh soprano
* 1936 – Al Attles, American basketball player and coach
*1937 – Mary Daheim, American journalist and author
* 1938 – Dee Clark, American singer-songwriter (d. 1990)
* 1938 – Jake Gibbs, American baseball player and coach
* 1938 – Jim Kaat, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
* 1938 – Barry Newman, American actor
*1939 – Barbara Liskov, American computer scientist and academic
*1940 – Dakin Matthews, American actor, director, and playwright
* 1940 – Antonio Skármeta, Chilean author and academic
*1941 – Madeline Gins, American poet and architect (d. 2014)
* 1941 – Angelo Scola, Italian cardinal and philosopher
*1942 – Tom Peters, American businessman and author
* 1942 – Johnny Rivers, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
* 1942 – Jean Shrimpton, English model and actress
*1943 – Silvia Cartwright, New Zealand lawyer, judge, and politician, 18th Governor-General of New Zealand
* 1943 – Stephen Greenblatt, American theorist, scholar, and critic
* 1943 – Boris Gromov, Russian general and politician, Governor of Moscow Oblast
* 1943 – Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1943 – Michael Spence, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
*1944 – Gigi Riva, Italian footballer and manager
* 1944 – Peter Wilby, English journalist
*1945 – Joe Niekro, American baseball player (d. 2006)
* 1946 – Chrystos, American writer and activist
*1947 – Bob Anderson, English darts player
* 1947 – Rebecca Eaton, American television producer
* 1947 – Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese baseball player and coach
* 1947 – Ron Leavitt, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2008)
* 1947 – Sondhi Limthongkul, Thai journalist and politician
*1948 – Stephen Green, Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint, English businessman and politician
* 1948 – Buck Martinez, American baseball player and manager
* 1948 – Alex Ribeiro, Brazilian race car driver
*1949 – Stephen Bruton, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 2009)
* 1949 – Steven Stucky, American composer and academic (d. 2016)
* 1949 – David S. Ware, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2012)
*1950 – Lindsay Duncan, Scottish actress
* 1950 – John Lang, Australian rugby league player and coach
*1951 – Gerard F. Gilmore, New Zealand astronomer and academic
* 1951 – Kevin MacMichael, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and record producer (d. 2002)
* 1951 – Lawrence O'Donnell, American journalist and talk show host
* 1951 – John Tamargo, American baseball player and coach
*1952 – David Petraeus, American general, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
* 1952 – Modibo Sidibé

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