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Today in History ~ November 7
Events0921 - Treaty of Bonn: East France & West France recognize each other
1512 - Medici's fire Niccolo Machiavelli from Florence
1519 - University of Leuven condemns teachings of Rev. Martin Luther
1581 - Queen Elizabeth I & Francois of Anjou wed
1631 - Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler
1637 - Anne Hutchinson banished from Mass bay colony as a heretic
1651 - King Louis XIV of France (13) declared of full age
1665 - 1st edition of "London Gazette"
1667 - Jean Racine's "Andromaque," premieres in Paris
1722 - Richard Steele's "Conscious Lovers," premieres in London
1775 - Lord Dunmore, promises freedom to male slaves who join British army [H]
1805 - Lewis and Clark Expedition arrived at the Pacific Ocean. [H]
1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe, gives Harrison a presidential slogan ("Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!")
1820 - James Monroe elected 5th US president
1824 - St Petersburg flood
1848 - General Zachary Taylor elected president of US
1861 - Battle of Belmont, MO
1861 - Battle of Port Royal Bay, SC (Ft Walker, Ft Beauregard)
1863 - Battle of Rappahannock Station & Kelly's Ford, VA
1865 - London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded
1872 - US cargo ship Mary Celeste set sail from NY on a journey which ended when it is found mysteriously abandoned the following month
1874 - 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by Thomas Nast, a political cartoonist for "Harper’s Weekly", created a satirical drawing of an elephant about to fall into a giant hole. The elephant represented the Republican party and lampooned Ulysses S. Grant’s (R) possible bid for a third term.
1875 - Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa
1876 - Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to recieve a PhD in US college (Yale)
1876 - Pres Rutherford B Hayes & Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins popular vote but Electoral college selects Hayes (R)
1893 - Colorado granted its women the right to vote.
1914 - Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai
1915 - Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 kill)
1916 - Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising
1916 - Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected president
1916 - Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
1917 - British capture Gaza, Palestine from Turks
1917 - Russia's October (Bolshevik) Revolution continued as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
1918 - Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
1919 - US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers
1925 - Italians liberal-national party joins fascist
1928 - Herbert Hoover (R) elected president
1929 - Museum of Modern Art in New York City opened to the public.
1931 - Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung
1933 - Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports
1936 - Battle of Madrid begins
1940 - Stravinsky's Symfonie in C premieres in Chicago
1940 - Only four months after its completion, The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Galloping Gertie) in Washington state, the third longest suspension bridge in the world at the time, collapsed during a windstorm. No one was injured. [H]
1941 - British air attack on Berlin, Mannheim & Ruhrgebied
1942 - 1st US president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French
1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey, in the midst of World War II but died in office the following April. Harry Truman, his vice president, succeeded him as president.
1944 - Train crashes in tunnel of Aguadilla Spain; about 500 die
1949 - King Faruk disbands Egyptian parliament
1954 - US spy plane shot down North of Japan
1955 - Supreme Court of Balt bans segregation in public recreational areas
1962 - Richard M. Nixon, having lost California's gubernatorial race, held what he called his "last press conference," telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."
1966 - Jean-Claude van Itallie's "America Hurrah," premieres in NYC
1967 - Carl B Stokes elected 1st black mayor of a major city-Cleveland, Ohio
1967 - LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1967 - Richard G Hatcher elected mayor of Gary Indiana
1970 - "Purlie" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 689 performances
1970 - Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida
1972 - President Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.
1973 - Congress overrode President Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a chief executive's power to wage war without congressional approval.
1983 - Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage just outside the Senate chamber but no injuries.
1985 - Colombian troops ended a 27-hour siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice by 35 M-19 guerrillas. 11 Supreme Court judges were among the 100 people killed.
1987 - U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Douglas Ginsburg withdrew his nine-day-old candidacy following criticism of his judicial ethics and his disclosure that he had used marijuana.
1989 - "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez was formally sentenced in Los Angeles to die in the gas chamber for 13 murders.
1989 - L. Douglas Wilder won the governor's race in Virginia, becoming the first elected black governor in U.S. history; David N. Dinkins was elected New York City's first black mayor.
1990 - Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland
1991 - Basketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson stunned the country as he announced that he had tested positive for the AIDS virus, and was retiring.
1991 - Pro- and anti-Communist rallies took place in Moscow on the 74th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
1995 - Three U.S. servicemen pleaded guilty in a courtroom on the Japanese island of Okinawa to conspiring to abduct and rape a 12-year-old girl.
1996 - Secretary of State Warren Christopher announced his resignation, starting President Clinton's process of assembling a second-term cabinet.
1996 - The U.S. liquor industry voted to drop its decades-old voluntary ban on broadcast advertising.
1997 - The jobless rate dropped to 4.7 percent in October, the lowest since October 1973.
2000 - Americans went to the polls for an election that would result in indecision for George W. Bush and Al Gore, in one of the closest presidential elections ever, with the winner eventually determined more than a month later following considerable turmoil over the disputed Florida vote emerging as critical.
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first first lady to win public office, defeating Republican Rick Lazio for a U.S. Senate seat from New York.
2001 - U.S.-led jets resumed bombing in northern Afghanistan, targeting Taliban positions near the country's northeastern border with Tajikistan.
2002 - Atlanta police said ballistic tests have linked a fatal shooting at an Atlanta liquor store in September to the suspected Washington-area snipers.
2002 - Actress Winona Ryder was convicted of grand theft and vandalism in a shoplifting case but drew no jail time.
Birthdays Today
0994 - Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian/jurist/author of Islamic Spain
1692 - Johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg)
1810 - Ferenc Erkel, Hungary, composer/conductor (Hunaydi L szl¢)
1866 - Paul Lincke, German composer/conductor/publisher (Frau Luna)
1867 - (Madame) Marie Curie (Marja Sklodowski) (Nobel Prize-winning physicist [1903]: study of radiation; chemist: discovered radium and polonium)
1879 - Leon Davidovitsj Trotsky, [Leib Bronstein], Russ revolutionary
1900 - Efrem Kurtz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54)
1900 - Heinrich Himmler, Nazi SS leader
1902 - Ed Dodd (cartoonist: Mark Trail)
1903 - Dean Jagger (Academy Award-winning actor: Twelve O'clock High [1949]; Elmer Gantry, Bad Day at Black Rock, White Christmas, King Creole, The Robe, Vanishing Point, Mr. Novak)
1903 - Konrad Lorenz, zoologist/ethologist (Man & His Ideas, Nobel 1973)
1913 - Albert Camus (Nobel Prize-winning writer [1957]; Le Mythe de Sisyphe)
1918 - Billy Graham (evangelist: TV host: Hour of Decision, The Billy Graham Crusade)
1922 - Al Hirt (musician: trumpet: Java, Sugar Lips, Flight of the Bumble Bee as theme song for TV's The Green Hornet; played in singer, Don Gibson's band; a regular on: Make Your Own Kind of Music, Fanfare) (Greatest Horn in the World)
1926 - Joan Sutherland, Sydney Australia, operatic soprano (Met Opera)
1931 - Gerald Humel, composer
1936 - Gwyneth Jones, Pontnewyndd Wales, soprano (Die Walkure, Isolde)
1937 - Mary Travers (singer, group: Peter, Paul and Mary: Leaving on a Jet Plane, Blowin' in the Wind, Puff the Magic Dragon, I Dig Rock 'n' Roll Music; solo: LP: No Easy Walk to Freedom)
1938 - Barry Newman (actor: Petrocelli, Nightingales, The Edge of Night, Vanishing Point)
1938 - Dee (Delectus) Clark (singer: Just Keep It Up, Raindrops, Ride a Wild Horse)
1938 - Jim Kaat (baseball: Minnesota Twins pitcher: World Series [1965]; sportscaster: ABC Sports)
1942 - Johnny Rivers (Ramistella) (singer: Poor Side of Town, Memphis, Secret Agent Man, Slow Dancin', Baby I Need Your Lovin')
1943 - Joni Mitchell (Roberta Anderson) (songwriter: Willy, Big Yellow Taxi, Woodstock; singer: Help Me, Free Man in Paris, Both Sides Now)
1944 - Tommy Hart (football)
1964 - Dana Plato (actress: Diff'rent Strokes, Return to Boggy Creek, Beyond the Bermuda Triangle)
1978 - Nick Gilder (singer: Hot Child in the City)
Famous deaths
0739 - Willibrord, [Clemens], 1st bishop of Utrecht/saint 695-739, dies at 81
1225 - Engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered at 40
1573 - Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo),
1633 - Cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist/inventor (submarine), dies
1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist, dies at 76
1796 - Catharina II, "the Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67
1802 - Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer, dies at 50
1817 - Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer, dies at 85
1827 - Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Ital violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 76
1837 - Elijah P Lovejoy, publisher, murdered by pro-slavery mob at 34
1910 - Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War & Peace), dies at 82 [OS]
1944 - Richard Sorge & Ozaki, spies, hanged in Tokyo
1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945), dies at 78 in NYC
1965 - Friedrich Wildgans, composer, dies at 52
1967 - John Nance Garner, (VP-D, 1933-41), dies at 98
1967 - Juan Tomas Perez, composer, dies at 71
1978 - Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champ (1926-28), dies at 80
1978 - Janet Flanner, writer (The New Yorker), dies at 86
1980 - Steve McQueen, actor (Tom Horn, Bullitt), dies of cancer at 50
1981 - Will Durant, US author (story of civilization), dies at 96
1992 - Alexander Dubcek, premier Czechoslovakia (1968-69), dies at 70
1994 - Michael O'Donoghue, comedian/writer (SNL), dies at 54
1995 - John Patrick, screenwriter, dies at 90
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