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.
- 1872 –The ship Mary Celeste sails from New York, eventually to be found deserted
- 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.
- 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 Beethoven’s Fidelio.
- 1914 –The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
- 1917 –The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
- 1917 –World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1918 –Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
- 1920 –Patriarch Tikhon issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
- 1921 –The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence.
- 1940 –In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge’s completion.
- 1944 –Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
- 1957 –Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
- 1967 –US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- 1975 –In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Col. Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brig. Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman. The day is occasionally observed as the National Revolution and Solidarity Day.
- 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.
- 1991 –Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
- 2007 –Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
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