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Events

• 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, struck the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
• 1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
• 1786 - The oldest musical organization in the United States was founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
• 1811 - Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, Indiana, United States.
• 1837 - In Alton, Illinois, abolitionism printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a Crowd while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
• 1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, United States forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate States of America camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
• 1874 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Magazine, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party (United States)
• 1885 - In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the Canadian Pacific Railway railway extending across Canada.
• 1893 - Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
• 1900 - Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses
• 1910 - The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
• 1912 - The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio.
• 1914 - The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
• 1914 - The Germany colony of Jiaozhou Bay and its centre at Qingdao are captured by Japanese forces.
• 1917 - October Revolution: In Petrograd, Russia, Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Russian Provisional Government, 1917 (As Russia is still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 25 date).
• 1917 - World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: United Kingdom forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
• 1918 - The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
• 1921 - the Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, came into existence.
• 1929 - In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
• 1931 - The Chinese Soviet Republic proclaimed on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
• 1932 - Buck Rogers airs on radio for the first time.
• 1933 - Fiorello H. LaGuardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
• 1934 - Premiere of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
• 1940 - In Tacoma, Washington, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge ("Galloping Gertie") collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
• 1941 - World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimea’s hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
• 1941 - Holocaust: Jewish tragedy in Nemyriv, Ukraine: Germany fascists murder 2580 Jews. Earlier in September, 1941 2,400 Jews were shot by Germany Nazis at the brickworks near Nemyriv.
• 1944 - Rail transport in Puerto Rico#Tragedy on election day in 1944 in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico due to excessive speed in a declining hill. 16 killed; 50 injured.
• 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.
• 1957 - Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more United States missiles and fallout shelters.
• 1963 - Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
• 1967 - Carl B. Stokes was elected as Mayor of the City of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first Black Mayor of a major American city.
• 1967 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
• 1973 - The Congress of the United States overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
• 1983 - 1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the U.S. Capitol Building.
• 1987 - In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
• 1989 - Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
• 1989 - David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City.
• 1989 - East Germany Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
• 1990 - Mary Robinson is first woman to be elected President of Ireland
• 1996 - NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
• 1996 - A Nigerian Boeing 727 crashes into a lagoon 40 miles southeast of Lagos, killing 143.
• 2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win a public office in the United States.
• 2000 - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovered one of the country's largest Lysergic acid diethylamide lab inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
• 2001 - The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month break.
• 2002 - Iran bans advertising of United States products.
• 2004 - 2003 invasion of Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.

Births

• 630 - Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)
• 994 - Ibn Hazm, Arab philosopher (d. 1069)
• 1598 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
• 1619 - Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)
• 1650 - John Robinson (1650-1723), English diplomat (d. 1723)
• 1687 - William Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765)
• 1750 - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)
• 1805 - Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870)
• 1818 - Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (d. 1896)
• 1832 - Andrew Dickson White, American co-founder and first president of Cornell University (d. 1918)
• 1838 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
• 1846 - Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (d. 1907)
• 1851 - Chris von der Ahe, German born entrepreneur (d. 1913)
• 1858 - Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian freedom fighter
• 1860 - Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (d. 1936)
• 1861 - Jeff Milton, American lawman (d. 1947)
• 1867 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish-born chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Nobel Prize in physics and in Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1934)
• 1875 - Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (d. 1946)
• 1876 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (d. 1958)
• 1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian/American chemist and physicist Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission (d. 1968)
• 1879 - King Baggot, American actor (d. 1948)
• 1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (d. 1940)
• 1886 - Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player (d. 1935)
• 1888 - Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1970)
• 1893 - Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985)
• 1897 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American writer, director, and producer (d. 1953)
• 1898 - Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (d. 1963)
• 1901 - Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1980)
• 1903 - Dean Jagger, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1903 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1989)
• 1905 - William Alwyn, English composer (d. 1985)
• 1913 - Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1960)
• 1914 - Archie Campbell, American comedian, writer (d. 1987)
• 1915 - Philip Morrison, American scientist (d. 2005)
• 1918 - Billy Graham, American evangelist
• 1918 - Maria Teresa de Noronha, Portuguese Fado singer
• 1918 - Paul Aussaresses, French general
• 1922 - Al Hirt, American trumpeter (d. 1999)
• 1926 - Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano
• 1927 - Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese computer game executive
• 1929 - Eric R. Kandel, Austrian-born neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1929 - Jesús de Polanco, Spanish businessman and media tycoon (d. 2007)
• 1936 - Dame Gwyneth Jones, Welsh soprano
• 1937 - Mary Travers (Peter, Paul and Mary), American singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
• 1938 - Jim Kaat, American baseball player
• 1942 - Johnny Rivers, American singer and composer
• 1942 - Jean Shrimpton, British supermodel and actress
• 1943 - Michael Byrne (actor), English actor
• 1943 - Stephen Greenblatt, American literary critic
• 1943 - Boris Gromov, Russian general
• 1943 - Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician
• 1943 - Michael Spence, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics laureate
• 1944 - Joe Niekro, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1944 - Luigi Riva, Italian footballer
• 1944 - Ken Patera, American professional wrestler
• 1947 - Bob Anderson (darts player), English darts player
• 1948 - Alex Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
• 1949 - Steven Stucky, American Composer
• 1952 - David Petraeus, American general
• 1954 - Kamal Haasan, Indian actor
• 1955 - Detlef Ultsch, German judoka
• 1956 - Judy Tenuta, American comedian
• 1957 - Christopher Knight (actor), American actor
• 1958 - Lori Saldaña, American politician
• 1959 - Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
• 1960 - Tommy Thayer, American guitarist (Kiss (band))
• 1962 - Tracie Savage, American actress and journalist
• 1963 - John Barnes (footballer), English footballer
• 1964 - Dana Plato, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1964 - Gill Holland, American producer
• 1965 - Sigrun Wodars, German athlete
• 1967 - Sharleen Spiteri Scottish singer and songwriter (Texas (band))
• 1967 - Steve Digiorgio, American musician. Bass from Sadus, Testament and Death
• 1968 - Greg Tribbett, American musician (Mudvayne)
• 1968 - Mark Preston (racing), Australian engineer
• 1969 - Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
• 1970 - Neil Hannon, Northern Irish musician (The Divine Comedy (band))
• 1970 - Andy Houston, American NASCAR driver
• 1970 - Marc Rosset, Swiss tennis player
• 1970 - Morgan Spurlock, American director and producer
• 1971 - Jamie Drummond, Scottish/Canadian Sommelier
• 1971 - Robin Finck, American musician
• 1972 - Jason London, American actor
• 1972 - Jeremy London, American actor
• 1972 - Danny Grewcock, English rugby union player
• 1972 - Christopher Daniel Barnes, American actor
• 1972 - Mike Goldman, Australian media personality
• 1973 - Yunjin Kim, South Korean actress
• 1974 - Kris Benson, American baseball player
• 1975 - Stephen Alexander, American football tight end
• 1976 - Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
• 1976 - Melyssa Ford, Canadian model and actress
• 1976 - One Be Lo, hip-hop artist
• 1978 - Rio Ferdinand, English footballer
• 1978 - Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch footballer
• 1979 - Will Demps, American football player
• 1979 - Joey Ryan, American professional wrestler
• 1979 - Jon Peter Lewis, American singer
• 1979 - Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican footballer
• 1979 - Barney Harwood, CBBC presenter
• 1980 - Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
• 1980 - James Franklin, New Zealand Cricket player
• 1981 - Lily Thai, Asian porn star
• 1981 - Muhammad Hassan, professional wrestler
• 1981 - Anthony Moffat, Scottish musician, writer and film-maker
• 1986 - Sol Aranza, Mexican voice actress

Deaths

• 1225 - Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne
• 1550 - Jon Arason, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Iceland prior to the reformation, beheaded in Skalholt with his two sons Are and Bjorn. (b. 1484)
• 1574 - Solomon Luria, Maharshal (b. 1510)
• 1581 - Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar
• 1599 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
• 1620 - Hetman Stanislaw Zolkiewski polish commander in the Battle of Ţuţora (1620) (b. 1547)
• 1633 - Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572)
• 1639 - Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician
• 1642 - Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician
• 1713 - Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
• 1837 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)
• 1872 - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
• 1906 - Heinrich Seidel, German engineer, poet and writer (b. 1842)
• 1910 (Old Style) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (b. 1828)
• 1913 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
• 1919 - Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (b. 1863)
• 1922 - Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1943 - Dwight Frye, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1944 - Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)
• 1944 - Hannah Szenes, Jewish woman who parachuted into Yugoslavia during World War II to help save the Jews of Hungary (b. 1921)
• 1959 - Victor McLaglen, British-born actor (b. 1883
• 1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
• 1966 - Rube Bressler, Baseball player (b. 1894)
• 1967 - John Nance Garner, U.S. Congressman and Vice President (b. 1868)
• 1968 - Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
• 1974 - Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
• 1978 - Gene Tunney, List of heavyweight boxing champions (b. 1897)
• 1980 - Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
• 1983 - Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
• 1991 - Carter Cornelius, American R&B musician (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (b. 1948)
• 1991 - Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920)
• 1992 - Alexander Dubček, Slovakian politician (b. 1921)
• 1992 - Jack Kelly (actor), American actor (b. 1927)
• 1994 - Shorty Rogers, American jazz musician (b. 1924)
• 1996 - Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian Lawyer and First Foreign Affairs Minister (b. 1918)
• 2000 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
• 2000 - Ingrid of Sweden, Queen Dowager of Denmark (b. 1910)
• 2001 - Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936)
• 2002 - Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (b. 1923)
• 2004 - Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2005 - Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
• 2005 - Harry Thompson, English-born comedian and novelist (b. 1960)
• 2006 - Bryan Pata, American football defensive tackle (University of Miami) (murdered) (b. 1981)
• 2006 - Johnny Sain, American baseball pitcher (b. 1917)
• 2006 - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)

Holidays and observances

• Christianity - Saint Willibrord, Prosdocimus, Herculanus of Perugia, Vicente Liem de la Paz
• Also see November 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Northern Catalonia - National Day, after Treaty of Pyrenees.
• Day of the October Revolution (1917) in the Gregorian Calendar, an Public holidays in the Soviet Union; unofficially commemorated in modern Russia.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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Events

• 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, struck the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
• 1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
• 1786 - The oldest musical organization in the United States was founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
• 1811 - Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, Indiana, United States.
• 1837 - In Alton, Illinois, abolitionism printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a Crowd while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
• 1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, United States forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate States of America camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
• 1874 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Magazine, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party (United States)
• 1885 - In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the Canadian Pacific Railway railway extending across Canada.
• 1893 - Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
• 1900 - Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses
• 1910 - The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
• 1912 - The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio.
• 1914 - The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
• 1914 - The Germany colony of Jiaozhou Bay and its centre at Qingdao are captured by Japanese forces.
• 1917 - October Revolution: In Petrograd, Russia, Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Russian Provisional Government, 1917 (As Russia is still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 25 date).
• 1917 - World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: United Kingdom forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
• 1918 - The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
• 1921 - the Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, came into existence.
• 1929 - In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
• 1931 - The Chinese Soviet Republic proclaimed on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
• 1932 - Buck Rogers airs on radio for the first time.
• 1933 - Fiorello H. LaGuardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
• 1934 - Premiere of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
• 1940 - In Tacoma, Washington, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge ("Galloping Gertie") collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
• 1941 - World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimea’s hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
• 1941 - Holocaust: Jewish tragedy in Nemyriv, Ukraine: Germany fascists murder 2580 Jews. Earlier in September, 1941 2,400 Jews were shot by Germany Nazis at the brickworks near Nemyriv.
• 1944 - Rail transport in Puerto Rico#Tragedy on election day in 1944 in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico due to excessive speed in a declining hill. 16 killed; 50 injured.
• 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.
• 1957 - Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more United States missiles and fallout shelters.
• 1963 - Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
• 1967 - Carl B. Stokes was elected as Mayor of the City of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first Black Mayor of a major American city.
• 1967 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
• 1973 - The Congress of the United States overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
• 1983 - 1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the U.S. Capitol Building.
• 1987 - In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
• 1989 - Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
• 1989 - David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City.
• 1989 - East Germany Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
• 1990 - Mary Robinson is first woman to be elected President of Ireland
• 1996 - NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
• 1996 - A Nigerian Boeing 727 crashes into a lagoon 40 miles southeast of Lagos, killing 143.
• 2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win a public office in the United States.
• 2000 - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovered one of the country's largest Lysergic acid diethylamide lab inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
• 2001 - The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month break.
• 2002 - Iran bans advertising of United States products.
• 2004 - 2003 invasion of Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.

Births

• 630 - Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)
• 994 - Ibn Hazm, Arab philosopher (d. 1069)
• 1598 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
• 1619 - Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)
• 1650 - John Robinson (1650-1723), English diplomat (d. 1723)
• 1687 - William Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765)
• 1750 - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)
• 1805 - Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870)
• 1818 - Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (d. 1896)
• 1832 - Andrew Dickson White, American co-founder and first president of Cornell University (d. 1918)
• 1838 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
• 1846 - Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (d. 1907)
• 1851 - Chris von der Ahe, German born entrepreneur (d. 1913)
• 1858 - Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian freedom fighter
• 1860 - Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (d. 1936)
• 1861 - Jeff Milton, American lawman (d. 1947)
• 1867 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish-born chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Nobel Prize in physics and in Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1934)
• 1875 - Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (d. 1946)
• 1876 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (d. 1958)
• 1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian/American chemist and physicist Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission (d. 1968)
• 1879 - King Baggot, American actor (d. 1948)
• 1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (d. 1940)
• 1886 - Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player (d. 1935)
• 1888 - Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1970)
• 1893 - Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985)
• 1897 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American writer, director, and producer (d. 1953)
• 1898 - Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (d. 1963)
• 1901 - Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1980)
• 1903 - Dean Jagger, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1903 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1989)
• 1905 - William Alwyn, English composer (d. 1985)
• 1913 - Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1960)
• 1914 - Archie Campbell, American comedian, writer (d. 1987)
• 1915 - Philip Morrison, American scientist (d. 2005)
• 1918 - Billy Graham, American evangelist
• 1918 - Maria Teresa de Noronha, Portuguese Fado singer
• 1918 - Paul Aussaresses, French general
• 1922 - Al Hirt, American trumpeter (d. 1999)
• 1926 - Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano
• 1927 - Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese computer game executive
• 1929 - Eric R. Kandel, Austrian-born neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1929 - Jesús de Polanco, Spanish businessman and media tycoon (d. 2007)
• 1936 - Dame Gwyneth Jones, Welsh soprano
• 1937 - Mary Travers (Peter, Paul and Mary), American singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
• 1938 - Jim Kaat, American baseball player
• 1942 - Johnny Rivers, American singer and composer
• 1942 - Jean Shrimpton, British supermodel and actress
• 1943 - Michael Byrne (actor), English actor
• 1943 - Stephen Greenblatt, American literary critic
• 1943 - Boris Gromov, Russian general
• 1943 - Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician
• 1943 - Michael Spence, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics laureate
• 1944 - Joe Niekro, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1944 - Luigi Riva, Italian footballer
• 1944 - Ken Patera, American professional wrestler
• 1947 - Bob Anderson (darts player), English darts player
• 1948 - Alex Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
• 1949 - Steven Stucky, American Composer
• 1952 - David Petraeus, American general
• 1954 - Kamal Haasan, Indian actor
• 1955 - Detlef Ultsch, German judoka
• 1956 - Judy Tenuta, American comedian
• 1957 - Christopher Knight (actor), American actor
• 1958 - Lori Saldaña, American politician
• 1959 - Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
• 1960 - Tommy Thayer, American guitarist (Kiss (band))
• 1962 - Tracie Savage, American actress and journalist
• 1963 - John Barnes (footballer), English footballer
• 1964 - Dana Plato, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1964 - Gill Holland, American producer
• 1965 - Sigrun Wodars, German athlete
• 1967 - Sharleen Spiteri Scottish singer and songwriter (Texas (band))
• 1967 - Steve Digiorgio, American musician. Bass from Sadus, Testament and Death
• 1968 - Greg Tribbett, American musician (Mudvayne)
• 1968 - Mark Preston (racing), Australian engineer
• 1969 - Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
• 1970 - Neil Hannon, Northern Irish musician (The Divine Comedy (band))
• 1970 - Andy Houston, American NASCAR driver
• 1970 - Marc Rosset, Swiss tennis player
• 1970 - Morgan Spurlock, American director and producer
• 1971 - Jamie Drummond, Scottish/Canadian Sommelier
• 1971 - Robin Finck, American musician
• 1972 - Jason London, American actor
• 1972 - Jeremy London, American actor
• 1972 - Danny Grewcock, English rugby union player
• 1972 - Christopher Daniel Barnes, American actor
• 1972 - Mike Goldman, Australian media personality
• 1973 - Yunjin Kim, South Korean actress
• 1974 - Kris Benson, American baseball player
• 1975 - Stephen Alexander, American football tight end
• 1976 - Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
• 1976 - Melyssa Ford, Canadian model and actress
• 1976 - One Be Lo, hip-hop artist
• 1978 - Rio Ferdinand, English footballer
• 1978 - Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch footballer
• 1979 - Will Demps, American football player
• 1979 - Joey Ryan, American professional wrestler
• 1979 - Jon Peter Lewis, American singer
• 1979 - Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican footballer
• 1979 - Barney Harwood, CBBC presenter
• 1980 - Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
• 1980 - James Franklin, New Zealand Cricket player
• 1981 - Lily Thai, Asian porn star
• 1981 - Muhammad Hassan, professional wrestler
• 1981 - Anthony Moffat, Scottish musician, writer and film-maker
• 1986 - Sol Aranza, Mexican voice actress

Deaths

• 1225 - Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne
• 1550 - Jon Arason, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Iceland prior to the reformation, beheaded in Skalholt with his two sons Are and Bjorn. (b. 1484)
• 1574 - Solomon Luria, Maharshal (b. 1510)
• 1581 - Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar
• 1599 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
• 1620 - Hetman Stanislaw Zolkiewski polish commander in the Battle of Ţuţora (1620) (b. 1547)
• 1633 - Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572)
• 1639 - Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician
• 1642 - Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician
• 1713 - Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
• 1837 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)
• 1872 - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
• 1906 - Heinrich Seidel, German engineer, poet and writer (b. 1842)
• 1910 (Old Style) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (b. 1828)
• 1913 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
• 1919 - Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (b. 1863)
• 1922 - Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1943 - Dwight Frye, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1944 - Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)
• 1944 - Hannah Szenes, Jewish woman who parachuted into Yugoslavia during World War II to help save the Jews of Hungary (b. 1921)
• 1959 - Victor McLaglen, British-born actor (b. 1883
• 1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
• 1966 - Rube Bressler, Baseball player (b. 1894)
• 1967 - John Nance Garner, U.S. Congressman and Vice President (b. 1868)
• 1968 - Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
• 1974 - Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
• 1978 - Gene Tunney, List of heavyweight boxing champions (b. 1897)
• 1980 - Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
• 1983 - Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
• 1991 - Carter Cornelius, American R&B musician (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (b. 1948)
• 1991 - Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920)
• 1992 - Alexander Dubček, Slovakian politician (b. 1921)
• 1992 - Jack Kelly (actor), American actor (b. 1927)
• 1994 - Shorty Rogers, American jazz musician (b. 1924)
• 1996 - Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian Lawyer and First Foreign Affairs Minister (b. 1918)
• 2000 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
• 2000 - Ingrid of Sweden, Queen Dowager of Denmark (b. 1910)
• 2001 - Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936)
• 2002 - Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (b. 1923)
• 2004 - Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2005 - Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
• 2005 - Harry Thompson, English-born comedian and novelist (b. 1960)
• 2006 - Bryan Pata, American football defensive tackle (University of Miami) (murdered) (b. 1981)
• 2006 - Johnny Sain, American baseball pitcher (b. 1917)
• 2006 - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)

Holidays and observances

• Christianity - Saint Willibrord, Prosdocimus, Herculanus of Perugia, Vicente Liem de la Paz
• Also see November 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Northern Catalonia - National Day, after Treaty of Pyrenees.
• Day of the October Revolution (1917) in the Gregorian Calendar, an Public holidays in the Soviet Union; unofficially commemorated in modern Russia.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

November 7 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
November 7 is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 54 days remaining until the end of the year.

United States House of Representatives elections, 2006 - Wikipedia ...
The 2006 US House election was held on November 7, 2006 to elect members to the United States House of Representatives. All of the 435 seats in the House were up for election.

BBC ON THIS DAY | 7 | 1972: Nixon takes second term by landslide
President Richard Nixon wins an overwhelming victory in the US presidential elections for a second term in the White House.

BBC ON THIS DAY | 7
1956: Eisenhower re-elected with record vote. Eisenhower is returned to the White House with the biggest share of votes for 100 years.

7th November - This day in history
... of what the revolution had accomplished thus far, Lenin returned from exile in Switzerland to spark his Bolshevik revolutionaries, culminating in the coup of November 7.

The Battle of Cambrai 1917
Senior Officer casualties : 20 November 1917 - 7 December 1917: Lt-Col William Alderman DSO : Officer commanding 6th Royal West Kents.

Work - Friday, November 7
Friday, November 7 Work Calendar «

Work - Wednesday, November 7
Wednesday, November 7 Work Calendar «

Execs & Accounts for November 7, 2007 - ClickZ
Catalyst names Nichols partner; Jaye joins Digitas from Wunderman; Eyeblaster grabs Firon ... Catalyst hired Jim Nichols as partner, strategist. The marketing firm was launched ...

Concert / BMIC
29th November, 7.30pm Sarah Nicolls Hyper-piano Jonathan Green - Into Movements LP