November 07

Sunday 07, 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.

Thursday 07, 2002:

Iran bans advertising of United States products.

Wednesday 07, 2001:

2001 - The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month break.

Tuesday 07, 2000:

Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office.

Thursday 07, 1996:

A Nigerian Boeing 727 crashes into a lagoon 40 miles southeast of Lagos, Nigeria, killing 143.

Saturday 07, 1992:

The Party for Socialist Turkey is founded.

Thursday 07, 1991:

Basketball player Magic Johnson announces he has tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, and that he is retiring.

Tuesday 07, 1989:

In California, convicted murder Richard Ramirez (aka "The Night Stalker") is sentenced to death.

Monday 07, 1988:

Boxing: In Las Vegas, Nevada, boxer Sugar Ray Leonard knocks out Donnie LaLonde.

Saturday 07, 1987:

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

Monday 07, 1983:

A bomb explodes inside the US Capitol building.

Wednesday 07, 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.

Tuesday 07, 1972:

U.S. presidential election, 1972: Republican Party (United States) incumbent Richard Nixon defeats Democratic Senator George McGovern.

Tuesday 07, 1967:

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

Sunday 07, 1965:

The Pillsbury Doughboy makes its first public appearance.

Thursday 07, 1963:

Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, 11 miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.

Wednesday 07, 1962:

Richard M. Nixon loses the California governor's race. In his concession speech, he states that this is his "last press conference" and that "you won't have Dick Nixon to kick around any more".

Thursday 07, 1957:

Cold War: In the United States, the Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.

Wednesday 07, 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.

Tuesday 07, 1944:

U.S. presidential election, 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins reelection over challenger Thomas E. Dewey, to become the only U.S. president to be elected to a fourth term.

Thursday 07, 1940:

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

Wednesday 07, 1934:

Premiere of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini at Baltimore, Maryland

Monday 07, 1932:

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on radio for the first time.

Thursday 07, 1929:

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

Thursday 07, 1918:

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

Wednesday 07, 1917:

British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.

Tuesday 07, 1916:

U.S. presidential election, 1916: Democrat Woodrow Wilson is re-elected President of the United States by defeating Republican Charles Evans Hughes. Meanwhile, Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.

Saturday 07, 1914:

The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.

Thursday 07, 1912:

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

Monday 07, 1910:

The first air freight shipment from Dayton, Ohio to Columbus, Ohio undertaken by the Wright Brothers and Department Store owner Max Moorehouse.

Tuesday 07, 1893:

Colorado women are granted the right to vote.

Saturday 07, 1885:

In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the Canadian Pacific Railway railway extending across Canada.

Saturday 07, 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

Thursday 07, 1861:

In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.

Tuesday 07, 1848:

U.S. presidential election, 1848: Zachary Taylor is elected president in the first US presidential election held in every state on the same day.

Tuesday 07, 1837:

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.

Thursday 07, 1811:

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

Tuesday 07, 1786:

America's oldest musical organization was founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.

Friday 07, 1783:

A man convicted of forgery is the last to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.

Saturday 07, 1665:

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

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