About November 7
November 7, 2023 is the 311th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 54 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 95 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 7
- 335 –Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.
- 680 –The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.
- 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.
- 1893 –Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
- 1900 –Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
- 1907 –Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers away before it can explode.
- 1908 –Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
- 1914 –The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
- 1914 –The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
- 1918 –The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
- 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.
- 1933 –Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
- 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 –Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.
- 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.
- 1989 –Douglas Wilder wins the governor’s seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
- 1989 –East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
- 2000 –Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.
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