About November 7
November 7, 2024 is the 312th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 54 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 83 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 7
- 335 –Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.
- 1492 –The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes 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.
- 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.
- 1874 –A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
- 1908 –Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
- 1912 –The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven’s Fidelio.
- 1914 –The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
- 1914 –The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
- 1918 –Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
- 1918 –The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
- 1933 –Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
- 1973 –The U.S. Congress 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 United States Capitol. No people are harmed, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
- 1989 –East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
- 1991 –Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
- 2000 –Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
- 2000 –Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.
- 2001 –SABENA, the national airline of Belgium, goes bankrupt
- 2007 –Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
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