About November 7
November 7, 2024 is the 312th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 54 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 83 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 7
- 680 –The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.
- 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.
- 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 in order to fight with Murray and the British.
- 1907 –Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
- 1914 –The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
- 1917 –The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
- 1918 –The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
- 1920 –Patriarch Tikhon 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 Bolshevik Revolution.
- 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.
- 1975 –In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Col. Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brig. Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman. The day is occasionally observed as the National Revolution and Solidarity Day.
- 1983 –1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No people are harmed, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
- 1987 –In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
- 1990 –Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
- 1996 –NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
- 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.
- 2001 –SABENA, the national airline of Belgium, goes bankrupt
- 2002 –Iran bans advertising of United States products.
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