What happened on November 7? There are more than 311 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About November 7
November 7 is the 312th day of the year 2024. There are 54 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday. This day falls under the 45th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Washington, District of Columbia 20456 sunrise occured at 06:41 AM and sunset occured at 05:02 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Scorpio. The modern birthstone for this month is Topaz while the mystical birthstone is Pearl.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 83 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For November 7
- 335Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.
- 680The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.
- 1492The 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.
- 1619Elizabeth of Scotland and England is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
- 1665The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
- 1775John 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.
- 1786The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
- 1811Tecumseh’s War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
- 1837In 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.
- 1861American 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.
- 1872The ship Mary Celeste sails from New York, eventually to be found deserted
- 1874A 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.
- 1885In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the Canadian Pacific Railway extending across Canada.
- 1893Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
- 1900Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
- 1907Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
- 1907Jesús 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.
- 1908Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
- 1910The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
- 1912The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven’s Fidelio.
- 1914The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
- 1914The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
- 1916Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
- 1917The 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.
- 1917World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1918Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
- 1918The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
- 1919The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in twenty-three different U.S. cities.
- 1920Patriarch Tikhon issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
- 1921The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence.
- 1929In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
- 1931The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
- 1933Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
- 1940In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge’s completion.
- 1941World 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.
- 1944A passenger train derails in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico from excessive speed when descending a hill. 16 people are killed and 50 are injured.
- 1944Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.
- 1944Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
- 1956Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
- 1957Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
- 1963Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
- 1967Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
- 1967US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- 1973The 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.
- 1975In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Col. Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brig. Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman. The day is occasionally observed as the National Revolution and Solidarity Day.
- 19831983 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.
- 1987In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
- 1989David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected mayor of New York City.
- 1989Douglas Wilder wins the governor’s seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
- 1989East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
- 1990Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
- 1991Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
- 1994WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world’s first internet radio broadcast.
- 1996NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
- 2000Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
- 2000Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.
- 2000The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country’s largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
- 2001SABENA, the national airline of Belgium, goes bankrupt
- 2002Iran bans advertising of United States products.
- 2004War 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.
- 2007Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
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Who Were Born On November 7?
- 630Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)
- 994Ibn Hazm, Arab philosopher (d. 1069)
- 1598Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
- 1619Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)
- 1650John Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723)
- 1687William Stukeley, English antiquarian (d. 1765)
- 1728Captain James Cook, British naval officer, explorer, and cartographer (d. 1779)
- 1750Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)
- 1805Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870)
- 1818Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (d. 1896)
- 1832Andrew Dickson White, American educator (d. 1918)
- 1838Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
- 1846Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (d. 1907)
- 1851Chris von der Ahe, German born entrepreneur (d. 1913)
- 1858Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian political activist (d. 1932)
- 1860Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (d. 1936)
- 1861Jeff Milton, American lawman (d. 1947)
- 1867Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry (d. 1934)
- 1875Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (d. 1946)
- 1876Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (d. 1958)
- 1878Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)
- 1879King Baggot, American actor (d. 1948)
- 1879Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (d. 1940)
- 1886Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player (d. 1935)
- 1888Sir C. V. Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
- 1890Jan Matulka American painter (d. 1972)
- 1893Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985)
- 1896Esdras Minville, Quebec writer, economist and sociologist (d. 1975)
- 1897Herman J. Mankiewicz, American writer, director, and producer (d. 1953)
- 1898Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (d. 1963)
- 1899Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-born Israeli poet and columnist (d. 1954)
- 1901Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1980)
- 1903Ary Barroso, Brazilian songwriter (d. 1964)
- 1903Dean Jagger, American actor (d. 1991)
- 1903Grace Stafford, American actress (d. 1992)
- 1903Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1989)
- 1905William Alwyn, English composer (d. 1985)
- 1913Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
- 1913Alekos Sakellarios, Greek writer and film director (d. 1991)
- 1914Archie Campbell, American comedian, writer (d. 1987)
- 1915Philip Morrison, American scientist (d. 2005)
- 1917Titos Vandis, Greek actor (d. 2003)
- 1918Billy Graham, American evangelist
- 1918Maria Teresa de Noronha, Portuguese Fado singer (d. 1993)
- 1918Paul Aussaresses, French general
- 1919Ellen Stewart, American theater director and producer (d. 2011)
- 1921Jack Fleck, American professional golfer
- 1922Al Hirt, American trumpeter (d. 1999)
- 1923Gene Callahan, American film art and production designer (d. 1990)
- 1926Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano (d. 2010)
- 1927Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese computer game executive
- 1927Ivor Emmanuel, Welsh singer and actor (d. 2007)
- 1928Richard G. Scott, LDS Apostle
- 1929Eric R. Kandel, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1929Jesús de Polanco, Spanish businessman and media tycoon (d. 2007)
- 1930Rudy Boschwitz, American politician
- 1931G. Edward Griffin, American film producer and author
- 1935W. S. Rendra, Indonesian poet and playwright (d. 2009)
- 1936Audrey McLaughlin, Canadian politician
- 1936Dame Gwyneth Jones, Welsh soprano
- 1938Barry Newman, American actor
- 1938Dee Clark, American singer (d. 1990)
- 1938Jake Gibbs, American baseball player
- 1938Jim Kaat, American baseball player
- 1940Antonio Skármeta, Chilean writer
- 1940Dakin Matthews, American actor
- 1942Jean Shrimpton, British supermodel and actress
- 1942Johnny Rivers, American singer and composer
- 1942Tom Peters, American writer
- 1943Boris Gromov, Russian general
- 1943Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician
- 1943Michael Byrne, English actor
- 1943Michael Spence, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1943Stephen Greenblatt, American literary critic
- 1944Joe Niekro, American baseball player (d. 2006)
- 1944Ken Patera, American professional wrestler
- 1944Luigi Riva, Italian footballer
- 1945Earl Boen, American actor
- 1946John Aylward, American actor
- 1947Bob Anderson, English darts player
- 1947Holmes Osborne, American actor
- 1947Sondhi Limthongkul, Thai journalist
- 1947Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese professional baseball player
- 1948Alex Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
- 1948Buck Martinez, American baseball player
- 1949Stephen Bruton, American guitarist & songwriter
- 1949Steven Stucky, American composer
- 1950Lindsay Duncan, British actress
- 1951John Tamargo, American baseball player
- 1951Lawrence O'Donnell, American political analyst
- 1952David Petraeus, American military commander
- 1953Lucinda Green, British equestrian
- 1954Gil Junger, American director
- 1954Guy Gavriel Kay, Canadian writer
- 1954Kamal Haasan, Indian actor
- 1954Robin Beck, American singer
- 1955Detlef Ultsch, German judoka
- 1955Kitty Margolis, American jazz singer
- 1955Shirley Eikhard, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1956Jonathan Palmer, British Formula One racer
- 1956Judy Tenuta, American comedienne and accordionist
- 1957Christopher Knight, American actor
- 1957John Benitez, American musician
- 1957King Kong Bundy, American professional wrestler
- 1957Tony Schiavone, American wrestling announcer
- 1958Lori Saldaña, American politician
- 1958Rissei Ō, Japanese professional Go player
- 1959Alexandre Guimarães, Costa Rican football manager
- 1959Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
- 1959Keith Lockhart, American orchestral conductor
- 1959Srinivas, Indian singer
- 1960Tommy Thayer, American guitarist (Kiss)
- 1961Orlando Mercado, American baseball player
- 1962Tracie Savage, American actress and journalist
- 1963John Barnes, English footballer
- 1963Sam Graves, American politician
- 1964Dana Plato, American actress and child actor (d. 1999)
- 1964Gill Holland, American producer
- 1964Li Nanxing, Singaporean actor
- 1964Liam Ó Maonlaí, founding member of Irish band Hothouse Flowers
- 1964Troy Beyer, American actress
- 1965Sigrun Wodars, German athlete
- 1966Calvin Borel, American horse jockey
- 1967David Guetta, French DJ
- 1967Julie Pinson, American actress
- 1967Sharleen Spiteri Scottish singer-songwriter (Texas)
- 1967Steve Digiorgio, American musician
- 1968Greg Tribbett, American musician (Mudvayne)
- 1968Mark Preston, Australian engineer
- 1968Russ Springer, American baseball player
- 1969Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
- 1969Michel Picard, Canadian professional ice hockey player
- 1969Michelle Clunie, American actress
- 1970Andy Houston, American NASCAR driver
- 1970Marc Rosset, Swiss tennis player
- 1970Morgan Spurlock, American director and producer
- 1970Neil Hannon, Northern Irish musician (The Divine Comedy)
- 1971Jamie Drummond, Scottish/Canadian Sommelier
- 1971Matthew Ryan, American musician
- 1971Robin Finck, American musician
- 1972Christopher Daniel Barnes, American actor
- 1972Danny Grewcock, English rugby union player
- 1972Hasim Rahman, American boxer
- 1972Jason London and Jeremy London, American actors
- 1972Marcus Stewart, English football player
- 1972Mike Goldman, Australian media personality
- 1973Catê, Brazilian footballer (d. 2011)
- 1973Martín Palermo, Argentine footballer
- 1973Yunjin Kim, South Korean actress
- 1974Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Jamaican track athlete
- 1974Chris Summers, Norwegian drummer (Turbonegro)
- 1974Christian Gómez, Argentine footballer
- 1974Kris Benson, American baseball player
- 1975Venkat Prabhu, Indian film director
- 1976Chang Hao, Chinese professional Go player
- 1976Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
- 1976Melyssa Ford, Canadian model and actress
- 1976One Be Lo, American hip-hop artist
- 1976Rob Caggiano, American musician (Anthrax)
- 1977Anthony Thomas, American football player
- 1977María Sánchez Lorenzo, Spanish tennis player
- 1978Elisabeth Bachman, American volleyball player
- 1978Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch footballer
- 1978Mohamed Aboutrika, Egyptian footballer
- 1978Rio Ferdinand, English footballer
- 1978Tomoya Nagase, Japanese actor and singer (Tokio)
- 1979Barney Harwood, English television presenter
- 1979Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican footballer
- 1979Joey Ryan, American professional wrestler
- 1979Jon Peter Lewis, American singer
- 1979Mike Commodore, American hockey player
- 1979Otep Shamaya, American singer-songwriter (Otep)
- 1979Will Demps, American football player
- 1980Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
- 1980James Franklin, New Zealand cricketer
- 1980Karthik, Indian singer
- 1980Luciana Salazar, Argentine model and actress
- 1980Sergio Bernardo Almirón, Argentine footballer
- 1981Anushka Shetty, Indian actress
- 1981Mark Copani, Jordanian/American professional wrestler
- 1982Pascal Leclaire, Canadian professional ice hockey player
- 1983Forrest Kline, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hellogoodbye)
- 1984Amelia Vega, Dominican model and 2003 Miss Universe pageant winner
- 1984Jonathan Bornstein, American soccer player
- 1985Sebastian Aldén, Swedish motorcycle racer
- 1986David Nelson, American football player
- 1986Doukissa Nomikou, Greek model
- 1987Marek Semjan, Slovakian tennis player
- 1988Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukrainian tennis player
- 1988Simone Favaro, Italian rugby player
- 1988Thomas Schneider, German athlete
- 1990Daniel Ayala, Spanish footballer
- 1990David de Gea, Spanish footballer
- 1990Matt Corby, Australian singer
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Who Died On November 7?
- 644Umar ibn al-Khattāb, Second caliph of Islam
- 1225Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne
- 1550Jon Arason, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Iceland (b. 1484)
- 1574Solomon Luria, Maharshal (b. 1510)
- 1581Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar
- 1599Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
- 1620Hetman Stanisław Żólkiewski Polish commander in the Battle of Ţuţora (1620) (b. 1547)
- 1633Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572)
- 1639Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician
- 1642Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician
- 1713Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
- 1837Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)
- 1872Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
- 1881John MacHale, Irish Archbishop (Tuam) and writer (b. 1791)
- 1906Heinrich Seidel, German engineer, poet and writer (b. 1842)
- 1913Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
- 1919Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (b. 1863)
- 1922Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
- 1930Ōkido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (b. 1878)
- 1943Dwight Frye, American actor (b. 1899)
- 1944Hannah Szenes, Jewish woman who parachuted into Yugoslavia during World War II to help save the Jews of Hungary (b. 1921)
- 1944Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)
- 1952Filippos Karvelas Greek gymnast (b. 1877)
- 1959Victor McLaglen, British-born actor (b. 1883)
- 1962Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
- 1965Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, 2nd Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and 2nd successor to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (b. 1889)
- 1966Rube Bressler, Baseball player (b. 1894)
- 1967John Nance Garner, U.S. Congressman and Vice President (b. 1868)
- 1968Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
- 1968Gordon Coventry, Australian rules footballer (b. 1901)
- 1974Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
- 1978Gene Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion (b. 1897)
- 1980Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
- 1983Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
- 1986Tracy Pew, Australian musician (The Birthday Party) (b. 1957)
- 1991Carter Cornelius, American R&B musician (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (b. 1948)
- 1991Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920)
- 1992Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician (b. 1921)
- 1992Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927)
- 1994Shorty Rogers, American jazz musician (b. 1924)
- 1996Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist (b. 1939)
- 1996Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian Lawyer and First Foreign Affairs Minister (b. 1918)
- 2000Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
- 2000Queen Ingrid of Denmark (b. 1910)
- 2001Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936)
- 2002Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (b. 1923)
- 2004Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
- 2005Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
- 2005Harry Thompson, English-born comedian and novelist (b. 1960)
- 2006Bryan Pata, American football defensive tackle (University of Miami) (murdered) (b. 1984)
- 2006Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)
- 2006Johnny Sain, American baseball pitcher (b. 1917)
- 2007Earl Dodge, American politician (Prohibition Party) (b. 1932)
- 2007George W. George, American theater, Broadway and film producer (b. 1920)
- 2010Smaro Stefanidou, Greek actress (b. 1913)
- 2011Joe Frazier, Olympic Heavyweight Boxer (b. 1944)
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