About November 7
November 7, 2020 is the 312nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 54 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 97 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 7
- 680 –The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.
- 1665 –The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
- 1811 –Tecumseh’s War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
- 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.
- 1914 –The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
- 1916 –Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
- 1918 –Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
- 1921 –The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence.
- 1929 –In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
- 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 –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.
- 1967 –Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
- 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.
- 1989 –Douglas Wilder wins the governor’s seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
- 1994 –WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world’s first internet radio broadcast.
- 2000 –Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
- 2004 –War in Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day “state of emergency” as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
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