Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 7
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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 -
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Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia -
Last Spike ceremony for the Canadian Pacific Railway -
Magic Johnson -
Hillary Clinton -
Mass Rapid Transit train in Singapore -
Johann Sebastian Bach -
Sidney Lanier Bridge collapse
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 |
| 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English-language newspaper, was first published as the Oxford Gazette. | refimprove |
| 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 (ceremony pictured). | missing citations |
| 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 |
| 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. | Too many self-published tags |
| 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. | Robinson: unreferenced section; Election: refimprove |
| 2007 – A Finnish high school student shot and killed eight people at Jokela High School in Tuusula before committing suicide. | refimprove section |
| Eleanor Roosevelt |d|1962| | Numerous uncited sections |
Eligible
- 680 – The Third Council of Constantinople convened to settle the Christological controversies of monoenergism and monothelitism.
- 1723 – O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60, a dialogue cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach for Leipzig, was first performed.
- 1775 – Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of the Colony of Virginia, signed a proclamation promising freedom for the slaves of Patriots if they joined the British Armed Forces.
- 1811 – Tecumseh's War: 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.
- 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.
- 1916 – In the congressional elections, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
- 1917 – World War I: British forces captured Gaza following the retreat of the Ottoman garrison.
- 1972 – A ship collision with the Sidney Lanier Bridge in the U.S. state of Georgia resulted in a bridge collapse , which killed ten people.
- 1987 – Tunisian prime minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed and replaced President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him medically unfit for the duties of the office.
- 1991 – Magic Johnson announced his retirement from professional basketball due to HIV infection.
- 1996 – NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- 2000 – Hillary Clinton was elected a US senator, the first time a first lady had been elected to public office.
- Born/died: | Jeanne de Jussie |d|1561| Maldev Rathore |d|1562| William Stukeley |b|1687| Thomas Brassey |b|1805| Emanuele Luigi Galizia |b|1830| Lise Meitner |b|1878| Lorde |b|1996| Ri Ul-sol |d|2015
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: International Inuit Day
- 1837 – American abolitionist Elijah Parish Lovejoy was murdered by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois, during an attack to destroy his printing press and abolitionist materials.
- 1934 – The first specimens of the tufted jay (pictured) to be scientifically described were collected in Mexico.
- 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 – Singapore's first Mass Rapid Transit line opened, with train services running between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh.
- 1997 – The science fiction film Starship Troopers was released to generally negative reviews.
- Ibn Hazm (b. 994)
- Paul Sandby (d. 1809)
- Ruby Hurley (b. 1909)
- Ellen Stewart (b. 1919)