Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 7
This is a list of selected November 7 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Computer generated image of Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft -
Last Spike ceremony for the Canadian Pacific Railway -
Museum of Modern Art, New York City -
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia -
Singapore Mass Rapid Transit train
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| October Revolution Day in Belarus and various other regions of the former Soviet Union | refimprove section |
| 1619 – Elizabeth Stuart, a direct ancestor of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, was crowned Queen of Bohemia. | refimprove section |
| 1837 – American abolitionist Elijah Parish Lovejoy was murdered by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois, during their attack on his warehouse to destroy his printing press and abolitionist materials. | refimprove section |
| 1917 – Vladimir Lenin led a Bolshevik insurrection against the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky, starting the Bolshevik Revolution. | refimprove section |
| 1929 – New York City's Museum of Modern Art, often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world, opened to the public. | refimprove section |
| 1940 – Four months after the bridge's completion, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge across the Tacoma Narrows in the U.S. state of Washington collapsed in a windstorm. | refimprove |
| 1944 – Richard Sorge, one of the best-known Soviet intelligence officers of World War II, was hanged in Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, for espionage. | unreferenced section |
| 1990 – Mary Robinson was elected President of Ireland, the first woman and the first non-Fianna Fáil candidate in the history of contested Irish presidential elections to do so. | unreferenced section |
| 1996 – NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. | unreferenced section |
| 2007 – A Finnish high school student shot and killed eight people at Jokela High School in Tuusula before committing suicide. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English-language newspaper, was first published as the Oxford Gazette.
- 1775 – Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of the British Colony of Virginia, signed a proclamation promising freedom for slaves of Patriots if they joined the British Armed Forces.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Future U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant engaged in his first combat leadership role in the Battle of Belmont in Mississippi County, Missouri.
- 1885 – Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the first transcontinental railroad across Canada, concluded with the driving of the "last spike" in Craigellachie, British Columbia.
- 1916 – In the Congressional election, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
- 1917 – World War I: British forces captured Gaza when the Ottoman garrison abandoned the area.
- 1941 – World War II: German aircraft sank the Soviet hospital ship Armenia while she was evacuating civilians and wounded soldiers from Crimea, killing an estimated 5,000 people.
- 1987 – Singapore's first Mass Rapid Transit line was opened, starting with train services between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh stations.
- 1991 – Professional basketball player Magic Johnson announced his retirement from the game because of his infection with HIV.
- Born/died: Jeanne de Jussie (d. 1561) · Thomas Brassey (b. 1805) · Lorde (b. 1996)
Notes
- Sidney Reilly appears on November 5, so Richard Sorge should not appear in the same year
- Mars Orbiter Mission appears on November 5, so Mars Global Surveyor should not appear in the same year
November 7: Diwali (Hinduism, Sikhism and Jainism, 2018)
- 680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council convened in Constantinople to take a position on the theological positions of monoenergism and monothelitism.
- 1811 – American forces led by William Henry Harrison defeated the forces of Shawnee leader Tecumseh's growing confederation at the Battle of Tippecanoe near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana.
- 1949 – Oil was discovered in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan, leading to the construction of Neft Daşları, the world's first offshore oil platform.
- 1987 – Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed and replaced Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, declaring him medically unfit for the duties of the office.
- 2000 – Hillary Clinton (pictured) was elected as a Senator, becoming the first First Lady to win public office in the United States.
Maldev Rathore (d. 1562) · Lise Meitner (b. 1878) · Eleanor Roosevelt (d. 1962)