November 7

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on November 7. From 1900 until now. November 7 is under the sign of Scorpio. Famous birthdays on this day include Lorde (1996), Albert Camus (1913) and David Guetta (1967). Several movies were released around November 7 over the years, such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977 directed by Steven Spielberg and Malcolm X in 1992 directed by Spike Lee.
But much more happened on November 7 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

R.C. Saints - Saint Willibrord
Russia - day of the October Revolution (1917) in the Gregorian Calendar, unofficially commemorated
Northern Catalonia - National Day, after Treaty of Pyrenees.
Also see November 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Events

2018 Jean-Claude Arnault, Postponement of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature: Jayne Svenungsson announces she is leaving the Swedish Academy, the body that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is the eighth person to quit amid sex abuse and financial crime scandals at the exclusive group. (AP via The New York Times)
2017 Air quality in Delhi: A blanket of thick grey smog covers the Indian capital, Delhi, with some areas 30 times more polluted than the World Health Organization's recommended limit, one year after a similar smog. (BBC)
2016 Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017): Battle of Mosul (2016–2017), Hamam al-Alil massacre: Iraqi Army discover at least 100 beheaded bodies as they retake Hamam al-Alil, the last major settlement south of Mosul. (CNN)
2015 Syrian Civil War: The Assyrian Human Rights Network (AHRN) reports Islamic State militants released 37 Syrian Christians, mostly women, who were among more than 200 people from the Assyrian minority group abducted in February. (AP)The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the death toll from an airstrike on an IS-controlled eastern city near the border with Iraq rose from 25 to 71. (AP)
2014 2014 military intervention against ISIS: United States President Barack Obama orders 1500 more troops into Iraq. (The New York Times)
2013 War in North-West Pakistan:: The Pakistani Taliban names Maulana Fazlullah as its new leader six days after Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a drone attack in North Waziristan. (BBC)
2012 Syrian civil war: A car bomb in Damascus kills a judge. (New York Times)
2011 The Swedish Enforcement Administration (''Kronofogden'') announces the public auction of seven paintings originally believed to be painted by German leader Adolf Hitler. (TT via ''Dagens Nyheter'') (Swedish)
2010 Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabaab threaten more attacks in Burundi and Uganda in retaliation for their participation in an African Union peacekeeping operation in the country. Meanwhile, seven people are killed in fighting in the capital Mogadishu. (CP)
2009 A British tourist is shot dead by a masked gunman in the U.S. state of Texas. (The Guardian) (BBC) (The Times)
2008 Hurricane Paloma strengthens to Category 2 strength as it lashes the Cayman Islands. (AFP via Google News)
2007 Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
2006 U.S. Midterm elections: Democrats win control of both houses of Congress for the first time since 1994.
2005 Sierra Leone Health and Sanitation Minister, Abator Thomas says that polio has been eradicated in the country, following a successful immunization program. (allAfrica)
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.
2003 Occupation of Iraq:
2002 Iran bans the advertising of United States products.
2000 United States presidential election: Republican candidate Texas Governor George W. Bush defeats Democratic Vice President Al Gore in the closest election in US history, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida.
1997 Bean opens in US
1996 3 Sisters opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater, New York City
1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Pittsburgh PA on WXDX 105.9 FM
1994 WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.
1993 Betsy King wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup Golf Tournament
1992 1st NBA game at America West Arena, Phoenix Suns beat Clippers 111-105
1991 Brigadoon opens at New York State Theater NYC for 12 performances
1990 Little Night Music closes at New York State NYC after 11 performances
1989 In California, convicted murderer Richard Ramirez (the "Night Stalker") is sentenced to death.
1988 MLB all stars beats Japan 16-8 (Game 3 of 7)
1987 Tunisian Premier Zine al-Abidine fires President Habib Bourguiba
1984 STS 51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds
1983 Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his second New York Giants' record 56-yard field goal.
1982 Your Arms are Too Short to Box closes at Alvin NYC after 69 performances
1979 Cub reliever Bruce Sutter wins NL Cy Young Award
1978 Boston Red Sox Jim Rice wins AL MVP
1976 Gone With the Wind televised
1975 Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland
1974 63rd Davis Cup: South Africa beats India in (w / o)
1973 US and Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links
1972 US President Richard Nixon (Republican) re-elected defeating George McGovern (Democrat).
1970 Purlie closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 689 performances
1969 John andYoko release their 2nd album Wedding Album in the UK
1967 Carl B Stokes elected 1st black Mayor of a major city - Cleveland, Ohio
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1965 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1963 Carole Joan Crawford, 20, of Jamaica, crowned 13th Miss World
1962 Richard Nixon quits US politics - "You won't have Nixon to kick around".
1960 KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcsting
1957 Phillies pitcher Jack Sanford wins NL Rookie of Year
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.
1955 Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas.
1954 US spy plane shot down North of Japan
1953 WIS TV channel 10 in Columbia, SC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 Constitution of Jordan passes.
1950 French women and children leaves Hanoi / Tonkin-delta
1949 King Faruk disbands Egyptian parliament
1946 Bal Negre opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 54 performances
1944 FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)
1943 Detroit Lions 0, New York Giants 0; last scoreless tie in NFL.
1942 Bicyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world record (45,848 km)
1941 British air attack on Berlin, Mannheim and Ruhrgebied
1940 Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Washington State, USA.
1936 Battle of Madrid begins
1935 23rd CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Winnipegs defeats Hamilton Tigers, 18-12
1934 Arthur L Mitchell, becomes 1st black Democratic congressman (Ill)
1933 Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports.
1932 1st broadcast of Buck Rogers in the 25th century on CBS-radio
1931 The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
1929 Museum of Modern Art opens (NYC)
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) elected President
1925 Italians liberal-national party joins fascist
1921 The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence.
1920 Patriarch Tikhon issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
1919 US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers
1918 Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets.
1917 British capture Gaza Palestine from the Turks.
1916 Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns Czar of uprising
1915 Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 kill)
1914 Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai
1913 11 ampndash The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 kills more than 250.
1912 The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
1910 The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1909 Knights and Ladies of Saint Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama.
1908 Dutch capture Venezuelan navy
1907 Test tokens are struck in 1st production of Canadian coins
1900 Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
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