About November 7
November 7, 2021 is the 311th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 54 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 86 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 7
- 1619 –Elizabeth of Scotland and England is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1910 –The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
- 1912 –The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven’s Fidelio.
- 1917 –World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1957 –Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
- 1963 –Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
- 1973 –The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
- 1989 –East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
- 1994 –WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world’s first internet radio broadcast.
- 1996 –NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
- 2000 –Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
- 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
- 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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