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 on November 7, 1492. The fall of the meteorite through the Earth's atmosphere was observed as a fireball for a distance of up to 93 miles (150 kms) from where it eventually landed.
1512 On November 7, 1512, Niccolò Machiavelli was arrested, imprisoned, and subjected to the rack as a suspected schemer against the Medici family. Machiavelli was only released upon Giovanni de' Medici's election to the papacy in March 1513 as Pope Leo X. After Machiavelli left his dungeon he turned to writing. The following year he wrote his famous handbook for rulers, The Prince.
1633 Dutch inventor Cornelis Drebbel died on November 7, 1633. He invented the first navigable submarine (see below) in 1620 while working for the English Royal Navy. The craft was basically two boats, one upside-down and sealed on top of the other. It was propelled by oars. It was successfully tested on the River Thames.
1665 In 1665 an outbreak of plague in England forced King Charles II to remove his court from London and relocate to Oxford. The Oxford Gazette emerged from this turmoil as courtiers were unwilling to touch, let alone hold to read, newspapers published in the capital for fear of contagion. First published as the Oxford Gazette on November 7, 1665, it became The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English-language newspaper, when the King and his court returned to London three months later.
1728 English explorer Captain James Cook was born in Marton, (in present-day Middlesbrough) on November 7, 1728. The second of nine children, his father, James Cook, was an agricultural laborer who eventually became a bailiff and landowner. At the age of 16, Cook was apprenticed to Mr. William Sanderson a grocer and haberdasher in the fishing village of Staithes. According to tradition, it is during his time there that Cook first felt the lure of the sea while gazing out the shop window.
1786 The oldest musical organization in the United States, the Old Stoughton Musical Society was founded on November 7, 1786. 25 names are listed in the singer's group's first membership journal.
The first music collection the musical society purchased was The Worcester Collection of Sacred Harmony compiled by Isaiah Thomas, which contained the first American printing of the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah.
1837 Presbyterian minister and abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy was murdered in Alton, Illinois on November 7, 1837. A newspaper editor whose press was destroyed by vandals three times, he was accused of inciting slaves to revolt when he defended a black man burned at the stake by a mob. When another mob tried to burn down his warehouse, Lovejoy was shot trying to save it. His death helped to galvanize the abolitionist movement.
1867 Polish scientist Marie Curie was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, in the Russian partition of Poland The fifth and last child of a professor, Marie displayed a powerful intelligence and unusually good memory in her education. The discoverer of two radioactive elements: radium and polonium, Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903 when she won the award for physics. In 1911, she won the award again for chemistry becoming the first person to win the prize twice.
1872 On November 7, 1872 Mary Celeste left the New York City harbor and went out into the Atlantic bound for Genoa with a cargo. The ship was found by the Canadian brig Dei Gratia a month later in good condition but abandoned drifting in the Atlantic. The mystery has never been solved.
1874 The traditional mascot of the Republican party is the elephant. A political cartoon by Thomas Nast, published in Harper's Weekly on November 7, 1874, is considered the first important use of the symbol. In this cartoon, Nast depicted the Republican Party as a strong and determined elephant, while the Democratic Party was represented as a donkey.
1885 Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the first transcontinental railroad across Canada, concluded with the driving of the "last spike" by CPR railroad financier Donald Smith in Craigellachie, British Columbia on November 7, 1885.
1908 American outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and their The Wild Bunch gang became so proficient at robbing banks, payrolls and trains all over Colorado and Utah that the Pinkerton Detective Agency was hired to run them down. The pressures of being pursued forced Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to flee first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where they were probably killed in a shoot-out on November 7, 1908.
1910 The first air freight shipment was undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse on November 7, 1910. Philip Orin Parmelee flew a Wright Model B airplane 65 miles (105 km) from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio carrying a package of 200 pounds of silk for the opening of a store.
1913 French author Albert Camus was born on November 7, 1913 in Dréan (then Mondovi) in French Algeria. Albert's father, Lucien, was a poor agricultural worker of Alsatian descent and his mother, an illiterate house cleaner of Spanish descent. Camus played as goalkeeper for Racing Universitaire d'Alger's junior team until he contracted tuberculosis in 1930. His philosophical novels which include The Stranger, and The Fall are known for their association with both existentialism and absurdism.
1916 Jeanette Rankin became the first woman to hold a high government office in the United States when on November 7, 1916 she was elected to the United States House of Representatives from the state of Montana. A lifelong pacifist, she was the only legislator to vote against American involvement in both World War I and World War II.
1916 The first spoken-word election night radio broadcast was made on November 7, 1916 by the DeForest Radio Telephone and Telegraph Company's station, 2XG, located in the Highbridge section of New York City. The broadcast announced the results of the presidential election between President Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, and Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate.
1917 Two months after the Russian Republic was declared under the leadership of Minister-President Alexander Kerensky, it was overthrown by the Vladimir Lenin-led Bolsheviks on November 7, 1917. The Russians called it the "October Revolution" because they were still using the Julian Calendar. They adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1918 skipping eleven days. Once they took power, the Bolsheviks, under Lenin and Leon Trotsky, created the first Marxist Communist State.
1918 Evangelist Billy Graham was born on a dairy farm near Charlotte, North Carolina on November 7, 1918. His mother and father Morrow Coffey and William Franklin Graham managed the farm. Both parents were devout Christians. Graham was converted in 1934 during a revival meeting in Charlotte led by local evangelist Mordecai Ham. Billy Graham held more than 400 crusades in 185 countries and territories across six continents — reaching 215 million people.
1932 The Buck Rogers in the 25th Century radio show, notable as the first science-fiction program on radio, first hit the airwaves as a 15-minute broadcast on CBS Radio on November 7, 1932. The show related the story of our hero Buck finding himself in the 25th century.
1949 The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), the world's oldest offshore oil platform, on November 7, 1949. Neft Daşları lies 100 km (62 mi) away from the Azerbaijani capital Baku, and 55 km (34 mi) from the nearest shore in the Caspian Sea. Neft Daşları is actually a functional town with a population of about 2,000 and over 300 km (190 mi) of streets built on piles of dirt and landfill.
1962 Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was diagnosed with aplastic anemia soon after being struck by a motor vehicle in New York City in April 1960. In 1962, she was given steroids, which activated a dormant case of tuberculosis in her bone marrow, and she died of resulting cardiac failure at her Manhattan home at 55 East 74th Street on November 7, 1962, at the age of 78.
1967 Carl B. Stokes was elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio on November 7, 1967, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city. At the time of his election, Cleveland was a majority white city with a 37% black population. As mayor, Stokes opened city hall jobs to blacks and women and initiated Cleveland: Now!, a public and private funding program aimed at the revitalization of Cleveland neighborhoods.
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| Mainmass of the Ensisheim meteorite. By Konrad Andrä - Wikipedia |
1512 On November 7, 1512, Niccolò Machiavelli was arrested, imprisoned, and subjected to the rack as a suspected schemer against the Medici family. Machiavelli was only released upon Giovanni de' Medici's election to the papacy in March 1513 as Pope Leo X. After Machiavelli left his dungeon he turned to writing. The following year he wrote his famous handbook for rulers, The Prince.
1633 Dutch inventor Cornelis Drebbel died on November 7, 1633. He invented the first navigable submarine (see below) in 1620 while working for the English Royal Navy. The craft was basically two boats, one upside-down and sealed on top of the other. It was propelled by oars. It was successfully tested on the River Thames.
1665 In 1665 an outbreak of plague in England forced King Charles II to remove his court from London and relocate to Oxford. The Oxford Gazette emerged from this turmoil as courtiers were unwilling to touch, let alone hold to read, newspapers published in the capital for fear of contagion. First published as the Oxford Gazette on November 7, 1665, it became The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English-language newspaper, when the King and his court returned to London three months later.
1728 English explorer Captain James Cook was born in Marton, (in present-day Middlesbrough) on November 7, 1728. The second of nine children, his father, James Cook, was an agricultural laborer who eventually became a bailiff and landowner. At the age of 16, Cook was apprenticed to Mr. William Sanderson a grocer and haberdasher in the fishing village of Staithes. According to tradition, it is during his time there that Cook first felt the lure of the sea while gazing out the shop window.
1786 The oldest musical organization in the United States, the Old Stoughton Musical Society was founded on November 7, 1786. 25 names are listed in the singer's group's first membership journal.
The first music collection the musical society purchased was The Worcester Collection of Sacred Harmony compiled by Isaiah Thomas, which contained the first American printing of the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah.
1837 Presbyterian minister and abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy was murdered in Alton, Illinois on November 7, 1837. A newspaper editor whose press was destroyed by vandals three times, he was accused of inciting slaves to revolt when he defended a black man burned at the stake by a mob. When another mob tried to burn down his warehouse, Lovejoy was shot trying to save it. His death helped to galvanize the abolitionist movement.
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| Wood engraving of the pro-slavery mob setting fire to Gilman & Godfrey's warehouse. |
1867 Polish scientist Marie Curie was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, in the Russian partition of Poland The fifth and last child of a professor, Marie displayed a powerful intelligence and unusually good memory in her education. The discoverer of two radioactive elements: radium and polonium, Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903 when she won the award for physics. In 1911, she won the award again for chemistry becoming the first person to win the prize twice.
1872 On November 7, 1872 Mary Celeste left the New York City harbor and went out into the Atlantic bound for Genoa with a cargo. The ship was found by the Canadian brig Dei Gratia a month later in good condition but abandoned drifting in the Atlantic. The mystery has never been solved.
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| 1874 Nast cartoon featuring the first appearance of the Republican elephant |
1885 Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the first transcontinental railroad across Canada, concluded with the driving of the "last spike" by CPR railroad financier Donald Smith in Craigellachie, British Columbia on November 7, 1885.
1908 American outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and their The Wild Bunch gang became so proficient at robbing banks, payrolls and trains all over Colorado and Utah that the Pinkerton Detective Agency was hired to run them down. The pressures of being pursued forced Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to flee first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where they were probably killed in a shoot-out on November 7, 1908.
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| Butch Cassidy poses in the Wild Bunch group photo, Fort Worth, Texas, 1901 |
1910 The first air freight shipment was undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse on November 7, 1910. Philip Orin Parmelee flew a Wright Model B airplane 65 miles (105 km) from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio carrying a package of 200 pounds of silk for the opening of a store.
1913 French author Albert Camus was born on November 7, 1913 in Dréan (then Mondovi) in French Algeria. Albert's father, Lucien, was a poor agricultural worker of Alsatian descent and his mother, an illiterate house cleaner of Spanish descent. Camus played as goalkeeper for Racing Universitaire d'Alger's junior team until he contracted tuberculosis in 1930. His philosophical novels which include The Stranger, and The Fall are known for their association with both existentialism and absurdism.
1916 Jeanette Rankin became the first woman to hold a high government office in the United States when on November 7, 1916 she was elected to the United States House of Representatives from the state of Montana. A lifelong pacifist, she was the only legislator to vote against American involvement in both World War I and World War II.
1916 The first spoken-word election night radio broadcast was made on November 7, 1916 by the DeForest Radio Telephone and Telegraph Company's station, 2XG, located in the Highbridge section of New York City. The broadcast announced the results of the presidential election between President Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, and Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate.
1918 Evangelist Billy Graham was born on a dairy farm near Charlotte, North Carolina on November 7, 1918. His mother and father Morrow Coffey and William Franklin Graham managed the farm. Both parents were devout Christians. Graham was converted in 1934 during a revival meeting in Charlotte led by local evangelist Mordecai Ham. Billy Graham held more than 400 crusades in 185 countries and territories across six continents — reaching 215 million people.
1932 The Buck Rogers in the 25th Century radio show, notable as the first science-fiction program on radio, first hit the airwaves as a 15-minute broadcast on CBS Radio on November 7, 1932. The show related the story of our hero Buck finding himself in the 25th century.
1949 The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), the world's oldest offshore oil platform, on November 7, 1949. Neft Daşları lies 100 km (62 mi) away from the Azerbaijani capital Baku, and 55 km (34 mi) from the nearest shore in the Caspian Sea. Neft Daşları is actually a functional town with a population of about 2,000 and over 300 km (190 mi) of streets built on piles of dirt and landfill.
1962 Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was diagnosed with aplastic anemia soon after being struck by a motor vehicle in New York City in April 1960. In 1962, she was given steroids, which activated a dormant case of tuberculosis in her bone marrow, and she died of resulting cardiac failure at her Manhattan home at 55 East 74th Street on November 7, 1962, at the age of 78.
1967 Carl B. Stokes was elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio on November 7, 1967, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city. At the time of his election, Cleveland was a majority white city with a 37% black population. As mayor, Stokes opened city hall jobs to blacks and women and initiated Cleveland: Now!, a public and private funding program aimed at the revitalization of Cleveland neighborhoods.
1987 Singapore's first Mass Rapid Transit line was opened on November 7, 1987, starting with train services between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh stations. As of 2022, the network has a length of 216 km (134 miles) and 127 stations.
1990 European leaders in Brussels ruled on November 7, 1990 that carrots are a fruit — because they can be made into jam. It is important to note that the court's ruling does not mean that carrots are botanically fruits. Carrots are actually root vegetables. However, for the purposes of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy carrots are classified as fruits.
1991 Basketball star Magic Johnson announced on November 7, 1991 that he had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, thus ending his career in the NBA. Johnson's public announcement of his HIV-positive status helped dispel the stereotype, still widely held at the time that HIV was a "gay disease" something heterosexuals need not worry about.
2000 When Hillary Clinton decided that she wanted to be a senator, she chose New York even though she never lived there. She went on to win the election on November 7, 2000, becoming the first First Lady in US history to seek and win a political office. She was re-elected to the Senate in 2006.
2008 With his 1000th win with the Utah Jazz, Jerry Sloan becomes the first coach in NBA history to reach the mark with one team on November 7, 2008. Sloan also holds the record for coaching one team longer than anyone in NBA history. His last full season, the 2009–10 season, was his 22nd season as coach of the Jazz.
2017 Twitter originally had a character limit of 140 characters for tweets. However, on November 7, 2017, Twitter officially increased the character limit for tweets to 280 characters for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The reason for this change was to give users more space to express themselves and communicate more effectively, as the nature of languages and their character usage varies.
1990 European leaders in Brussels ruled on November 7, 1990 that carrots are a fruit — because they can be made into jam. It is important to note that the court's ruling does not mean that carrots are botanically fruits. Carrots are actually root vegetables. However, for the purposes of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy carrots are classified as fruits.
1991 Basketball star Magic Johnson announced on November 7, 1991 that he had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, thus ending his career in the NBA. Johnson's public announcement of his HIV-positive status helped dispel the stereotype, still widely held at the time that HIV was a "gay disease" something heterosexuals need not worry about.
2000 When Hillary Clinton decided that she wanted to be a senator, she chose New York even though she never lived there. She went on to win the election on November 7, 2000, becoming the first First Lady in US history to seek and win a political office. She was re-elected to the Senate in 2006.
2008 With his 1000th win with the Utah Jazz, Jerry Sloan becomes the first coach in NBA history to reach the mark with one team on November 7, 2008. Sloan also holds the record for coaching one team longer than anyone in NBA history. His last full season, the 2009–10 season, was his 22nd season as coach of the Jazz.
2017 Twitter originally had a character limit of 140 characters for tweets. However, on November 7, 2017, Twitter officially increased the character limit for tweets to 280 characters for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The reason for this change was to give users more space to express themselves and communicate more effectively, as the nature of languages and their character usage varies.
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