History Events on November 07

The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

#The_London_Gazette

The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.

#Last_Spike_(Canadian_Pacific_Railway)

In the US, Armistice Day becomes Veterans Day.

#Veterans_Day

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.

#Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956

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.

#Boston_Elevated_Railway

The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.

#Third_Council_of_Constantinople

In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.

#Museum_of_Modern_Art

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.

#Cartoon

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.

#October_Revolution

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.

#Suez_Crisis

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.

#Franklin_D._Roosevelt

World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.

#World_War_I

Treaty of Bonn: The Frankish kings Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler sign a peace treaty or 'pact of friendship' (amicitia), to recognize their borders along the Rhine.

#Treaty_of_Bonn

The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.

#German_Empire

Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.

#Second_Boer_War

US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

#Lyndon_B._Johnson

Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.

#Women's_suffrage_in_the_United_States

David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City.

#David_Dinkins

Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States.

#2000_United_States_presidential_election

The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.

#Deutsche_Oper_Berlin

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.

#Iraq_War

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.

#Drug_Enforcement_Administration

Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.

#Douglas_Wilder

Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.

#Mary_Robinson

Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.

#Cold_War

Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

#Patriarch_Tikhon_of_Moscow

In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

#Tunisia

The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.

#Chinese_Soviet_Republic

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.

#Richard_Sorge

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.

#American_Civil_War

The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Da?lar?), oldest offshore oil platform.

#Neft_Da?lar?

NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.

#NASA

Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.

#Tecumseh's_War

East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.

#East_Germany

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.

#World_War_II

Shamshad TV is attacked by armed gunmen and suicide bombers. A security guard was killed and 20 people were wounded. ISIS claims responsibility for the attack.

#Shamshad_TV

Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.

#Jeannette_Rankin

Elizabeth Stuart is crowned Queen of Bohemia.

#Elizabeth_Stuart,_Queen_of_Bohemia

US President Richard Nixon is re-elected President.

#Richard_Nixon

An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people.

#2012_Guatemala_earthquake

The United States Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.

#United_States_Congress

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.

#Alton,_Illinois

Lam S?n uprising: Lam S?n rebels emerge victorious against the Ming army in the Battle of T?t ??ng - Chúc ??ng taking place in ?ông Quan, in now Hanoi.

#Lam_S?n_uprising

Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.

#Kurt_Eisner

Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.

#Athanasius_of_Alexandria

The first Melbourne Cup horse race is held in Melbourne, Australia.

#Melbourne_Cup

Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.

#Jesús_García

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.

#Butch_Cassidy

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_United_States_Senate_bombing

Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.

#Magic_Johnson

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.

#Palmer_Raids

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.

#Great_Lakes_Storm_of_1913

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.

#Bangladesh

In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.

#Tacoma,_Washington

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.

#John_Murray,_4th_Earl_of_Dunmore

Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.

WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.

Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.

Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.

The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.

The first issue of The New Republic is published.

The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

The People's Party is founded in Cuba.

The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.

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.