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07 November, 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.
07 November, 2002
Iran bans advertising of United States products.
07 November, 2001
The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month break.
07 November, 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. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovered one of the countrys largest LSD lab inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
07 November, 1996
NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor. A Nigerian Boeing 727 crashes into a lagoon 40 miles southeast of Lagos, killing 143.
07 November, 1991
Magic Johnson makes announcement that he is infected with HIV, thus retiring from the NBA.
07 November, 1990
Mary Robinson is first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland
07 November, 1989
Douglas Wilder wins the governors seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States. David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City. East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
07 November, 1987
In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
07 November, 1983
1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the U.S. Capitol Building.
07 November, 1973
The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixons veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
07 November, 1967
Carl B. Stokes was elected as Mayor of the City of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first Black Mayor of a major American city. US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
07 November, 1963
Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
07 November, 1957
Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
07 November, 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.
07 November, 1944
Passenger train derails in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico from excessive speed in a declining hill. 16 killed; 50 injured.
07 November, 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. Holocaust: Jewish tragedy in Nemyriv, Ukraine: German fascists murder 2580 Jews. Earlier in September, 1941 2,400 Jews were shot by German Nazis at the brickworks near Nemyriv.
07 November, 1940
In Tacoma, Washington, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge ("Galloping Gertie") collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridges completion.
07 November, 1934
Premiere of Rachmaninoffs Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
07 November, 1933
Fiorello H. LaGuardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
07 November, 1932
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on radio for the first time.
07 November, 1931
The Chinese Soviet Republic proclaimed on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
07 November, 1929
In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
07 November, 1921
the Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, came into existence.
07 November, 1918
The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
07 November, 1917
Russian Revolution: In Petrograd, Russia, Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Russia is still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 25 date). World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
07 November, 1914
The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published. The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
07 November, 1912
The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethovens Fidelio.
07 November, 1910
The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
07 November, 1900
Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses
07 November, 1893
Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
07 November, 1885
In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the Canadian Pacific Railway railway extending across Canada.
07 November, 1874
A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harpers Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party
07 November, 1861
American 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.
07 November, 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.
07 November, 1811
Tecumsehs War: The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
07 November, 1786
The oldest musical organization in the United States was founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
07 November, 1665
The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
07 November, 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.

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